Work places

Just a few  places ( where photos allow) that The Irish in Leicester have worked in over the years...
Tommy Holt

Briggs Tannery.
Thanks to Dennis Calow at Vanished Leicester

Biggs Tannery.
Thanks to Dennis Calow at Vanished Leicester

ChrisMaloney

British Shoe Corporation. Thanks to http://www.geograph.org.uk

Kay Maloney

Foxes Glacier Mints

Sheila Sullvan

The General Hospital. Thanks to http://www.renal.org/

Don Nolan

Dunlop building. Thanks to movehut.co.uk

 Jo Cusack 

Northbridge Engineering. Thanks to pankl.com

George Corry  

The Hillcrest hospital. Thanks to http://www.fapgene.com/hillcrest

 Josie Silk

The Towers Hospital. Thanks to http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/

Patricia Morton

Imperial Typewriters. Thanks to http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Chris Conlon

The collieries of Ellistown.

Norren Jones

Cherub's.Thanks to Colin Hyde.

Thanks to Colin Hyde for the photos: East Midlands Oral History Archive

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Dore Rd

Joe Cusack, from Westport, was actually heading towards Birmingham on the train but didn’t have enough money so got off at Leicester.

He first lived in a flat in B+B in Saxby St because he had seen the vacancy sign in the window. He then moved to Mere Rd.

He met his wife, Lily, one night at The Corn Exchange dance and she was living on Mere Rd with Elisabeth Grimes from Castlebar.

He saw an advert for a job labouring in the engineering on Abbey Lane. He later went to City of Leicester to take his exams to be a Capstan’s Inspector. At home he had worked in the catering trade.

They married and in 1958 bought a house at 8 Dore Rd. for £1,600. They later moved up to Wigston Magna and Jo moved to work for Northbridge Engineering, Vicking Rd.

In the 1949/50 Jo was called up but had gone down to Cornwall to avoid going to Korea. The police found him in Penzance but he didn’t pass the medical. He was given an X-ray in a mobile van and it showed a shadow on his lung but a check later in Leicester proved this to be an error.

His brother, Jim, had a second hand/bargain shop on Charnwood St. and a music shop, Power Music, on Green lane Rd.

Another brother, Padraig, had been in the RAF, Palestine police, and he came to Leicester afterwards.

Jo only went home for funerals or back to stay with Lily’s family

Jo and Lily have 3 sons, Tony, Jimmy and Paul. They went to Sacred Heart, St. John Fisher and Corpus Christi. 

 

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