FLETCHER’S
In the early 1950s, Station Road, Ibstock, Leicester, was realigned away from my grandmother’s kitchen window, providing me with a wide safe pavement on which to ride my tricycle and observe to comings and goings at Bircher’s garage across the road. Within 80 yards of the garage, Station road (B586) forms a crooked T-junction with the Nottingham/Derby – Hinckley/ Coventry (A447) main road, an extremely busy road. Three elongated traffic islands with illuminated ‘Keep Left’ bollards were erected. This was a traffic slowing device.
On the Station Road/Hinckley road side of the junction was a village seat, a signpost and a street lamp. To the locals this was called ‘The stumps’. Ibstock, is a very old Saxon village, the name goes back to a time very many years ago when trees stood
