Painting of Loddington Mill by Vera Stanley

Loddington Mill House when occupied by the Stanley family in the early 20th century

The Stanley family. Vera Stanley as a child, in the garden at the back of the house, with her parents, Harry and Martha Stanley and her father's parents.

Nick Cox chatted to his grandparents when he was younger and recalls the following

"Loddington Mill was where the Stanley family lived as tenants. The mill part was separate. Great Granddad Stanley was the farm bailiff/manager there. The land was owned by Colonel North. Grandfather courted grandmother there, although he only saw her once a month at most, having to catch more than one bus to Leicester and then out to East Norton. The Eye brook ran very close to the house, which was a fairly big place. Around the house were the old millstones but no mechanism/mill as such. (All this was back in the late 1920's and early 1930's)

My Great Grandmother Martha Stanley died at the house in 1930 aged only 46 and her coffin was literally carried all the way, not taken by bier, by the young men who worked on the farm to the church, presumably through the ford, but as grandfather told me, over the style and up the field.

My grandmother as a young woman, cycled every day to Keythorpe Hall where she started off in service and then came home again to keep house for her father.”