No. 3 Station Road was next door to The Plough Inn and can be seen extreme right in the photo. It was possibly occupied by a fellmonger in the 19th century and also sold meat.
Littlethorpes oldest man John Alcott lived lived there during the 1950’s until his death in 1960 aged 95.
3 Station Road shown here as the last property next to The Plough Inn. The only available photograph to date.
John was a retired farm bailiff he was born on his fathers farm at West End in Hurley, Warwickshire. The 1891 census shows him still at home and employed as a colliery worker, by 1901 he is farming on his own account at Tollgate Farm, Bentley near Atherstone in Warwickshire. 1911 sees him employed as a farm bailiff at Dadlington in Leicestershire and married to Sarah, Elizabeth who was born in Narborough, Leicestershire.
John kept and milked a few cows on the land at the rear of No.3.
I remember exploring the property before its demolition to make way for what is now Sycamore Way. I always remember the shelf full of cattle treatment bottles in an old outhouse.
The following extract comes from the memory of Nev Duncan :-
“So we’re coming up the Station road across from you (10 Station Road) was a little old cottage. Mr. John Alcott, he came from Oxfordshire, his daughter married my uncle Tom Bingley, the butcher.
And now he owned the butcher’s shop (presumably by inheritance), and I think it was only opened on a Friday and a Saturday there, because his other butcher shop was up Cosby Road.”
Leicester Mercury 1960 obituary John Alcott (1865-1960)
