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Showing posts with label Desford. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Desford. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Richard Dadd and Victorian treatment of lunatics

Jonathan Jones wrote about the painter Richard Dadd, who spent much of his life as a patient at Broadmoor Hospital, in the Guardian earlier...

Saturday, May 09, 2026

In which I go on a guided walk round Desford

This is The Old White Cottage in Desford, a village west of Leicester that I visited today. Having found myself agreeing to do so at a herit...

Monday, March 23, 2026

Film of the last days of the Leicester & Swannington Railway

The Leicester & Swannington was one of the first railways of the steam age, built to bring coal to Leicester from the mines in the north...

Friday, February 20, 2026

Former Reform cabinet member in Leicestershire joins Restore

Leicestershire County Council's minority Reform UK administration has lost a councillor and former cabinet member, reports the Leicester...

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Reform UK councillor removed from Leicestershire cabinet amid complaints about "Islamophobic" emails

Charles Whitford has been removed from Reform UK's Leicestershire County Council cabinet following complaints from three members of the ...

Monday, June 16, 2025

A boiler explosion at Stonton Wyville in 1862 killed four men

Embed from Getty Images After covering its lost gardens and the drought of 1947 , we're going back to Stonton Wyville. Reader's voi...

Friday, June 30, 2023

Desford Approved School was once the dominant force in junior chess in Leicestershire

Here's a remarkable story from Richard James on British Chess News: For a few years in the mid 1930s a remarkable story was playing out...

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Plans for the reinterment of Richard III announced

The plans for the reinterment of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral next year have been announced. And you cannot accuse the city of stintin...

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Two Leicestershire Conservative county councillors join UKIP

We last saw David Sprason when he was in the soup for leaving a porn DVD in his council laptop. It could happen to anybody. Today comes n...

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Disused railway stations in Leicestershire

A new site called Beechings Ghosts offers a "compendium of disused railways and stations in Leicestershire, mostly affected by the Bee...

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