I lived at 1 Elmfield Road for the first 16 years of my life, from 1953 to 1969. I was very interested to see some of the history of the area. My grandfather owned an orchard behind the house at Garton End. He kept pigs there before he sold it to The Kings' School for playing fields. I played there as a child, helped him feed the pigs and remember it was used for car parking for the East of England show when it was held on Eastfield Avenue.
My younger sister and I both went to Dogsthorpe School. I remember very clearly copying the date into my book one Friday in 1959.

William Kitchen Parker is my wife, Robyn's, Great Grandfather.
We were delighted to read so much detailed information about Dogsthorpe on your website. To be able to locate the actual site of Sly's Farm from where the Parker family originated was especially poignant.
William's eldest son, Thomas Jeffery Parker was a world renown biologist who left Britain in 1880 to help establish the Biology Dept of the University of Otago in New Zealand.
He wrote a biography of his father in 1893 from which much of the Wikipedia article is taken and until now has been our only source of information about Dogsthorpe.
Your site has helped significantly to extend our knowledge of the Parker family in Dogsthorpe. Thank you.