Harby about 1930

Click on the crosses on the map to see  photographs of the village at this period between the wars.

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This is a section from the  1930 4th edition 1:2,500 Ordnance Survey map Leicestershire sheet 7/9.

There has been little building of new houses since the 1904 map.  The Post Office is now in Burden Lane. The Institute or Village Hall has been erected where we know it now to the north of School Lane. There are more allotments in land plot 120. Employment continues as before on the railway, ironstone mining, cheese production and farming. Unemployment was a concern in the 1930s but the WI minutes record in 1933 that most of the men have allotments suggesting that there was enough food for everyone.  The position of pumps and wells  shown on the 1904 map  are not shown here although they continued to be the only source of water. Mains water, sewage removal and electricity came in the years after the date of this map.

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