Famous for pork pies & Stilton cheese the other side of Melton Mowbray is also revealed in this fascinating collection of more than 200 photographs
- a playground for royalty & the aristocracy. Here amongst the finest foxhunting country in the land the future King Edward VIII met Mrs Wallis Simpson & Count Zborowski the creator of Chitty Bang Bang grew up. This selection contains archive images of a working market town its stately lodges Queen Victoria & Prince Albert with the Belvoir Hunt
- & the day the Marquis of Waterford & his fellow huntsman quite literally painted the town red. The institutions events & people of the town
- the Christmas Cheer Committee of 1911 W.G. Grace turning out for the home team in 1872 notorious local rogue Guss Wortley
- are all captured in this an essential tribute to the towns heritage. With the majority of these images dating from the Second World War Melton Mowbray" offers the reader a unique glimpse of an era that is fast becoming the nostalgic memory of the few."