Illustrations

Chapter 1

St James church

Sump of Moot Cross on Top Green

“The Abbey” (top manor house) as it is now Skillington’s other manor house off Colsterworth Road 

Home Farmhouse, Middle Street

Cottages at bottom of Lord’s Lane

Listed Barn adjacent to Far House  

The Dovecote

"Top Pub” football team at the Second Millennium  

Chapter 2

George Tyler and Hilda Foley

Bill Gray and the late “Tally” Hand  

Sketch map of road changes to south of village  

Aerial photograph of paddock area across Middle Street before building work by Hazel Homes

Fish Well, general view  

Fish Well, close up

Plan of finds by University of Leicester’s Archaeological Team in paddock area

Source of Cringle Brook  

Cringle Brook before it crosses Colsterworth Road  

Pill Box

The FA Challenge Cup comes to Skillington  

The Cross Swords sponsored football team

Football Team of the 60s

The drag-line digger at Cringle Quarries

Locomotive used at Cringle Quarries

The Selby forge  

Chapter 3

The Square in the early 1900s

A meet of the Hunt in The Square, early 1900s

Einstein’s signature in Visitors Book of Woolsthorpe Manor

The bells of St James church

St James Sunday School group, 1933 or 34

Mangle

Map of Skillington, c1901

Pump by Old School

Outside tap

The Newtons and farm workers at Harvest Time

Hilda Foley’s mother (Mrs Siddans) and family

Portrait photograph of Thos Christian and wife Anna

John Selby’s grandfather, Thomas, with horse and cart

Children playing on Moot Cross, early 1900s

“The Abbey” before west wing was added

Skillington School, early 1900s

The Old Posthouse, early 1900s

Poke Row, early 1900s Cottages adjacent to School  

The terraced cottages of Poke Row

“Mystery Object”  

Chapter 4

Portrait of Rev Charles Hudson

Stained glass window at church, memoriam to Rev Charles HudsonStained glass window at church, memoriam to Rev Charles Hudson