Showing posts with label Kibworth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kibworth. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

On New Year's Eve 1892 Saddington played Kibworth at cricket on a frozen reservoir

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Here's a another story I discovered when I visited Kibworth Library last week. This report is from the  Market Harborough Advertiser an...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Fighting breaks out at Kibworth vs Gumley cricket match in 1873

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At Kibworth library today in connection with a thing, I came across this report from the  Leicester Chronicle (2 August 1873): The cricket ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Blakey off of On the Buses and radical theatre

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In Kibworth the other day, I visited Daker Books and bought a second-hand copy of John Russell Taylor's Anger and After, a book about t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Market Harborough's town centre banks are now part of history

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In a few short years, bank branches have gone from being a key part of any high street to curious relics. So it's no surprise that three...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Harborough District Council may add more buildings to its list of heritage assets

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Harborough District Council, reports the Harborough Mail , has launched a consultation on adding a number of historic buildings to its list ...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Work begins in Kibworth to stabilise mud wall

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This just in from Kibworth Beauchamp Parish Council : An emergency footway closure and prohibition of waiting and loading is required on Hig...
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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Friday, May 05, 2023

Harborough District Council goes to No Overall Control

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Gold would have been a Liberal Democrat majority on Harborough District Council. We didn't manage that, but did win silver by depriving ...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Market Harborough buses under threat from Conservative chaos

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Some bus routes serving Market Harborough could be scrapped because of the the budget crisis facing Leicestershire County Council. HFM New s...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Harborough less affected by boundary changes than expected

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HFM News has the news about the Boundary Commission's final proposals for Leicestershire. The idea of a radical redrawing of boundaries...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Kibworth Books in its new home

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I visited Kibworth Books in its new premises today. You will find them at The Barn, 29 High Street, Kibworth Beauchamp, which is three time...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Welcome to Fox Books of Leicester

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My trip into Leicester on Wednesday meant I was able to visit the city's new independent bookshop, Fox Books . You will find it in St Ma...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

The history of Kibworth is The Story of England

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Good news. The BBC is repeating Michael Wood's series The Story of England, which uses the history of the Leicestershire village of K...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Two Leicester exhibitions: Ladybird Books and the Imperial Typewriters strike

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I braved the rain and went into Leicester today to visit two exhibitions. The first was The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Art...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

Wilfred Owen died 100 years ago today

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Wilfred Owen, now the most celebrated of the war poets, died on 4 November 1918, a week before the end of the first world war. Benjamin ...
Friday, March 30, 2018

When Bill Maynard finished fourth in a parliamentary by-election

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Earlier in the week I learnt an interesting fact about Bill Maynard and thought of writing a blog post about him. And now he has died. I...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Kibworth Harcourt windmill is on Historic England’s At Risk Register

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It's not just the Turret Gateway at Leicester Castle that has seen better days. The Leicester Mercury has the full list of county...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Government announces that the Midland main line will not be electrified north of Kettering

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We will see more disappointing news like this around the country as HS2 eats up all the funding for rail investment. That's what ...
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Monday, July 17, 2017

The Old Manor House, Kibworth Beauchamp

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After watching the cricket at East Langton on Saturday I ended up in Kibworth. The bookshop was closed, but I found that the Old Manor...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

The Rose and Crown, Kibworth

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The Kibworth Harcourt Trail leaflet says the Rose and Crown was once: the most famous coaching stop in Kibworth, with up to twenty-fou...