Kegworth Heritage Centre
Kegworth Heritage Plaques - Number 2
Market Place
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Sunday School Procession - c1908
Knowles the outfitters
Willams High Class Butchers
Willams High Class Butchers
Oakland and Son
Dog & Jones - Pet Store
Dog & Jones - Pet Store
This building was built c1870, and was owned by Robert Sutton, a Maltster from Ruddington, but was rented to Frederick George Knowles, a Draper of Kegworth.
The property is unusual in that it looks like a grand house complete with 2 gargoyles and a lion at the front of the building, but in fact it was always intended to be used as a shop. There used to be two large stone balls on either side of the lion but these were removed in the 1960s by Ted Hardy as they were not felt to be safe. He used a long ladder and brought them down on his shoulders, an amazing feat of strength and bravery.
Around the front door in the stone blocks can be seen some graffiti. This was carved by children waiting for the school bus and some of it is from the 1940s.
Frederick traded as F. G. Knowles and Son and when he died the business passed to his grandson Cyril. Cyril bought the premises from the Suttons in 1951 and used it as an outfitters until he died in 1978, ending over 100 years of the Knowles dynasty.
Following Knowles, the building was sold to Mrs Pamela Jean Jude who ran an Antiques Shop. In 1986 the building was bought by Robert Williams, a butcher. When the Williams family first moved in the old gas light fittings were still in place and a huge number of Knowles hatpins were found under the floorboards. They were the first family to live on the property (and still do to this day) and initially they used the shop space themselves. They now rent out the shop. Oaklands butchers utilised it for over 20 years, then it was briefly a wine bar, and now it is used by the Dog & Jones pet supplier.
Robert Williams was a keen detectorist, and items from his large collection of archaeological finds can be found on display in the Kegworth Heritage Centre.
The property is unusual in that it looks like a grand house complete with 2 gargoyles and a lion at the front of the building, but in fact it was always intended to be used as a shop. There used to be two large stone balls on either side of the lion but these were removed in the 1960s by Ted Hardy as they were not felt to be safe. He used a long ladder and brought them down on his shoulders, an amazing feat of strength and bravery.
Around the front door in the stone blocks can be seen some graffiti. This was carved by children waiting for the school bus and some of it is from the 1940s.
Frederick traded as F. G. Knowles and Son and when he died the business passed to his grandson Cyril. Cyril bought the premises from the Suttons in 1951 and used it as an outfitters until he died in 1978, ending over 100 years of the Knowles dynasty.
Following Knowles, the building was sold to Mrs Pamela Jean Jude who ran an Antiques Shop. In 1986 the building was bought by Robert Williams, a butcher. When the Williams family first moved in the old gas light fittings were still in place and a huge number of Knowles hatpins were found under the floorboards. They were the first family to live on the property (and still do to this day) and initially they used the shop space themselves. They now rent out the shop. Oaklands butchers utilised it for over 20 years, then it was briefly a wine bar, and now it is used by the Dog & Jones pet supplier.
Robert Williams was a keen detectorist, and items from his large collection of archaeological finds can be found on display in the Kegworth Heritage Centre.