My name is Tony Ingham and I live in Worcestershire but was born in Leicester. My grandmother gave me some tollhouse record books many years ago relating to parts of three different years in the mid-1800s. Some years ago I gave copies of these books to the Leicester Record Office but still have the originals. They were compiled by her great-grandfather Stephen BARRASS and great-great-grandfather Richard BARRASS whilst they kept the tollhouse, which was on the Melton side of the junction of the A607 (Melton) Road and Thorpe Satchville Road, roughly opposite the site of the former Kirby Hall. Lists of tolls collected, (although not the individual charges), and wages paid to the road-gang who maintained the road (with their surnames only) are contained in the books. My questions are - does anyone have any photographs of the former tollhouse, which has long since been demolished, or indeed any further details of the family or the premises?
The shape of the building appears roughly on the Google map of the village on this website, dated late 1800s.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help on adingham@tiscali.co.uk

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