Showing posts with label Clipston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clipston. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Joy of Six 1373

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"Weaponising food deprivation has been Israeli policy for decades. As a senior adviser to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put it in 2006, th...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

10 churches around Market Harborough on Historic England’s new ‘at risk’ register

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Historic England’s new ‘At Risk’ Register includes 10 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire churches near Market Harborough, reports Harboroug...
Sunday, August 07, 2016

Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray by bus

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My most recent Six of the Best included an article by John Disney that says our rural bus services are in meltdown. Judging from Marke...
Sunday, April 03, 2016

How Sherlock Holmes anticipated Lord Bonkers

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A couple of years ago Lord Bonkers reminisced about an incident from the 1920s: One bright April morning the 11:15 for Northampton Cast...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Lord Bonkers' Diary: The disappearance of the 11:15 from Nottingham London Road Lower Level

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Tuesday The mysterious disappearance of that Malaysian jet has put me in my mind of a sad story from the 1920s. One bright April morni...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Clipston: Another wayside telephone exchange

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Last spring I discovered a couple of wayside telephone exchanges in Maidwell and Kibworth . Here is another one. It is more rustic than ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

A brick wall in Clipston

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Reviving village shops

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As I have mentioned before, in my current excursions to Leicestershire and Northamptonshire villages I am often retracing journeys I made ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

Clipston Baptist Church

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There is a plaque in the entrance of the church with the date 1803. Pevsner has it right: The brick side with the three arched windows be...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Clipston: The most beautiful primary school in England?

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Who needs the Cotswolds? This is the grammar school and hospital designed and built by Matthew Cole of Clipston between 1667 and 1673. It i...
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