Harby about 1952

This is the Ordnance Survey map of the village in 1952 at the scale of 1:10,560, 6 inches to 1 mile, SK73 SW and SK 73 SE. Along the north side of School Lane  semi-detached “council houses” have been built on land acquired by compulsory purchase from Mr Furmidge by Melton and Belvoir Rural District Council around 1936 and rented out. Furmidges land was also compulsorily purchased by the Council for the housing put up after the Second World War in the new Pinfold Place. The map shows these new houses in School Lane and Pinfold Place by rectangles not hatched. There are also a few new houses on Langar Lane also shown by being unhatched. There are new allotment gardens next to the Pinfold Place council houses off Stathern Lane. For those who can afford them there are modern services available, telephone, electricity, mains water, and sewage (for the houses in Langar Lane this discharged untreated into the canal at Langar Bridge). Reproduced from the 1952 Ordnance Survey map with the kind permission of Ordnance Survey

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