Showing posts with label J. W. Logan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J. W. Logan. Show all posts
Thursday, February 26, 2026

My latest article for Central Bylines... Paddy Logan: Harborough’s radical Liberal hero

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I've had another piece published on Central Bylines this morning. It looks at the career of J.W. "Paddy" Logan, who was Liber...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

J.W. Logan left an estate worth £13m in today's money

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My hero J.W. Logan – nicknamed "Paddy Logan" for his strong support for Irish home rule – died in 1925. He had been Liberal MP for...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

A journey along the disused Market Harborough to Newark railway

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It was building the Great Northern and London & North Western Railway (GN&LNWJR) that brought my hero J.W. Logan MP to the Market Ha...
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Thursday, June 05, 2025

Your chance to own J.W. Logan MP's cottage home for the children of men injured on his works

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I posted this photo to Bluesky this morning on the #AdoorableThursday hashtag. The door is to be found at Deene Cottage in East Langton. Ove...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Robert Smyth Academy has a house named after J.W. Logan's Suffragette daughters

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My old school the Robert Smyth Academy, as it's now called, produces a Welcome to Your New School brochure. In it we learn: Pastoral ca...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

I can remember when it was the Tories who repaired church roofs

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When I go to St Peter's, Church Langton, to pay my respects to Paddy Logan , I also visit the grave of Colonel Hignett. Hignett bought E...
Monday, December 23, 2024

East Langton Liberal Club opened in 1889

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I knew Paddy Logan had given a village hall to East Langton and maintained an orphanage there for the children of men killed on his works, b...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

We knew how to celebrate election victories in Harborough in 1892

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This blog's hero J.W. 'Paddy' Logan gained Harborough from the Conservatives at a by-election in May 1891 and held it at the gen...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Mr Logan's hunter Lottery was named after the famous racehorse

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A reader has kindly directed me to a document on the neighbourhood plan review for East Langton parish, which mentions the monument to J.W. ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

The Lottery buried at East Langton is not the winner of the first Grand National but a hunter owned by J.W. Logan MP

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Later . There's a little more on Mr Logan's horse here . I am reading John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, which is an earlier st...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Nottingham Victoria Götterdämmerung

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This is a wonderful compilation of footage showing some of the last t rains to serve Nottingham Victoria station - the last of all ran on 4 ...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

A memorial to Covid victims in the churchyard at Church Langton

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I went to The Langtons this afternoon. I wanted to try the reopened Bell at East Langton, believed by many to be an inspiration for the Bo...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire preserved lengths of the Great Central Railway to be reunited this weekend

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Exciting news from the Great Central Railway : Join us for this spectacular weekend as we reunify the Great Central Railway and the Great Ce...
Friday, October 13, 2023

A signed copy of Bryan Magee's Men of Ideas with a Market Harborough connection

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I've blogged before about my discovery that the broadcaster Bryan Magee , who died in 2019, was evacuated to Market Harborough as a boy ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Bell at East Langton will reopen on Friday

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At last some good news. The Leicester Mercury reports: A pub in an idyllic village near Market Harborough which shut during the pandemic is...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Kibworth Harcourt windmill and St Peter's, Church Langton, are hosting Heritage Open Days

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This year's Heritage Open Days events are taking place between 8 and 15 September. Two venues near Market Harborough have caught my eye:...
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Thursday, June 15, 2023

Noel Coward took over Gracie Fields's orphanage

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Embed from Getty Images Lord Bonkers isn't the only politician to have had an orphanage: both Mr Gladstone and my local hero Paddy Loga...
Saturday, June 10, 2023

J.W. Logan was the first MP to hold both the Chiltern Hundreds and the Manor of Northstead

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Despite what disaffected Conservative MPs are announcing, you cannot resign from the House of Commons. Wikipedia explains: To circumvent th...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Little room for masterly inactivity in Market Harborough

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Do the authors of this volume of the Cambridge Urban History know how gloomy a book they have written? Pessimism suffuses these pages from s...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Could this be the reason I have a strong interest in Edwardian Liberalism? This is me in a sailor suit

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Paddy Logan. Charles Masterman. Lord Bonkers. These are my political heroes. But why am I so keen on Edwardian Liberals? Browsing through th...