Showing posts with label Nevill Holt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nevill Holt. Show all posts
Friday, October 23, 2026

Bob Trubshaw revisits the Ironstone quarries of Leicestershire

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Between the 1870s and 1970s there were extensive open-cast ironstone quarries in parts of Leicestershire. However few traces of these surviv...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

When Bonkers Hall was a fashionable spa

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Nevill Holt Hall has been many things: the family home of the Cunards, a notoriously abusive prep school, the chief model for Bonkers Hall. ...
Friday, January 02, 2026

The Grassy Shires: Farming in Leicestershire during WWII

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Thrill to footage of Nevill Holt Hall (now widely accepted to be the chief model for Bonkers Hall) from 1:13 and of Market Harborough cattle...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

"The horrible ghost up on Nevill Holt hill"

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The Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail for Thursday 19 August 1954 has a report on a benign ghost to be found at the Manor House...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

A Very Private School by Charles Spencer

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A Very Private School: A Memoir Charles Spencer William Collins, 2025, £10.99 There used to be two prestigious prep schools near Market Harb...
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Saturday, March 29, 2025

Now The Bonkers Arms is in The Notswolds

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Remember The Notswolds ? There's another article on the concept, this time in the Evening Standard : The Welland Valley is part of an ar...
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...
Friday, March 29, 2024

BOOK REVIEW Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood

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We think we know the history of the English country house in the 20th century. Their heyday was in the Edwardian era, but death duties and t...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Charles Spencer, Maidwell Hall and Nevill Holt

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The publicity surrounding Earl Spencer's early memoir A Very Private School , which details his abuse at Maidwell Hall, reminds me of on...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Market Harborough schoolboy assaulted for not giving Nazi salute

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Embed from Getty Images No, we've not been invaded. This story appeared in the Aberdeen Press and Journal on 14 September 1933: English...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Art heist at Bonkers Hall?

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HFM News reports: Five men have gone on trial accused of stealing rare art work worth over £1.5m from a stately home near Market Harborough...
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Boris Johnson to hold latest wedding at Bonkers Hall?

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You will remember that most scholars now accept that the model for Bonkers Hall is Nevill Holt Hall in Leicestershire. This makes the Prufro...
Saturday, January 09, 2021

A difficult year: Lord Bonkers in 2020

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Putting my life back in order will be more of an undertaking, but I can at least start returning Liberal England to normality. So let's ...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Backlisted on The Compleet Molesworth

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One of my favourite podcasts, Backlisted , which looks each fortnight at a book that has fallen into neglect, celebrates its fifth birthday ...
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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Controversy over £85,000 grant to 17-year-old opera patron at Bonkers Hall

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One of the beneficiaries of money from the Culture Recovery Fund hereabouts was Nevill Holt Opera. It has its own little opera house in the...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

The Cunards at Nevill Holt

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The Medbourne Village website has a good page about the Cunards and their tenure of Nevill Holt, Edward Cunard purchased the Nevill Hol...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Boris Johnson's Caribbean Christmas holiday was paid for by the owner of the model for Bonkers Hall

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From the Guardian : Boris Johnson’s Caribbean holiday over the New Year was a £15,000 gift from a wealthy and controversial Conservativ...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Nevill Holt and William Mayne: Two posts with important comments on child sexual abuse

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This story was in the Guardian this morning: Police say they are uncovering a hidden “epidemic” of paedophile abuse in the 1970s and 1...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

Medbourne station was lost 50 years before the Beeching closures

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David Southwell once gave my name to the chairman of the Blaxwich Chamber of Commerce who tired to assassinate Dr Beeching in 1965, but...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Today I went to Bonkers Hall - or to Nevill Holt at least

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Celebrating 20 years of Lord Bonkers' Diary I wrote: Growing up in Market Harborough, it was hard to ignore Lord Bonkers. If you c...