Showing posts with label Melton Mowbray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melton Mowbray. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

What would have happened if St Pancras station had been closed?

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In 1980 the were serious proposals, and not for the first time, to close both Marylebone and St Pancras stations in London. Jago Hazzard tak...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Lord Harborough's Curve and Oscar Wilde's first biographer

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Lord Harborough's Curve: photo by John Sutton Many railway enthusiasts will know the story of the Battle of Saxby and Lord Harborough...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Derbyshire bakery recruiting volunteer taste tester after pork pie furore

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This just in... At a meeting this evening, the judges have awarded Headline of the Day to the Derbyshire Times . Lord Bonkers suggests the b...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Liz Truss's drive for Stilton exports to Japan proved a flop

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Reader's voice: Shall I say it? Liberal England replies: Go on then. Reader: That. Is. A. Disgrace. Liberal England: Thank you. Liz ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Titanic passengers ate Melton pies as one of their final meals

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Our Headline of the Day Award goes to (who else?) the Melton Times . The judges are anxious to point out that there is no reason to think th...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, Melton Mowbray, opens tasting room

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The Melton Times calls it  the final feature in a major refurbishment of the historic Nottingham Street bakery site, which began 15 months ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Drone footage of the remarkable Welland Viaduct

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Something different from the Trekking Exploration YouTube account: drone footage of the mighty Welland Viaduct. This stands on the line bet...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Bid to slice Melton Mowbray pork pie zone refused

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BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award for this very Leicestershire story.
Friday, December 20, 2024

Bob Trubshaw on the ironstone railways of Leicestershire

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A thorough survey of a vanished local industry and its associated railways. At 33:20 we visit Nevill Holt, which is believed by many scholar...
Monday, April 15, 2024

The last days of Melton Mowbray North

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I posted this video on Liberal England a decade ago: it's so good I should repost it every six months. Melton Mowbray North was the to...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Looking back at Simon Titley's writings for Liberator

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The new issue of Liberator was posted on the magazine website this morning. You can download it free of charge  from there - it's Libera...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Drone footage of the Welland Viaduct

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Thirteen miles downstream from Market Harborough, the River Welland passes under one of the least-known wonders on Britain's railways. A...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Melton Mowbray is the most unhappy place in Britain, says ONS

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It's official. Melton Mowbray is the most miserable place in Britain. The Office of National Statistics recently ranked all 393 local au...
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Saturday, June 17, 2023

Searching for the canal in Oakham

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North of Leicester the River Soar is joined by the River Wreake. The Wreake used to be navigable as far as Melton Mowbray, where there was a...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Melton Mowbray pork pie MBE man says he is a baker born and bred

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Attracted by the local angle, the judges have made this BBC News effort our Headline of the Day.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Maybe the dead do speak to us, but in their own way

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As Lord Bonkers might put it, the dead are Terribly Dead. I've had no sense of my mother's presence since she died, even though I...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Freight Train: The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group

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Skiffle was the punk of the 1950s. Suddenly anyone could form a band and play - you didn't need any formal musical education, Chas McDev...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Lord Bonkers' Diary from the April 1991 Liberator

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It's time to look back30 [gulp] years and see what Lord Bonkers was doing in Liberator 196, the April 1991 issue. We journey to the glor...
Friday, August 28, 2020

Boating on the River Eye in Melton Mowbray

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There's a nice story in the Melton Times about Melton Mowbray people taking to the town's River Eye: With limited boating activitie...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

John O'Gaunt Viaduct, Leicestershire

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John O'Gaunt Viaduct stands in East Leicestershire on the closed Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway It was buildi...