Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group

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We are starting a new project for 2026 - Letters to Peru. William Corah he of Coalville Times fame, in his early 20s wrote to a young lady in Peru starting in 1919 and ending in 1928. Extracting the local history stories and facts will be a major project over the next year or two.#LeicsLibraries

03.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Local History New Book Sale (Ideal Christmas Presents) Saturday 22nd November 10.00am to 12.30pm Loughborough Library, to include pre loved Jigsaws
Fundraising for Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group

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Loughborough High School 175th Anniversary exhibition at Loughborough Library Exhibition Centre Opening October 4th. Free entry during staffed hours. Did you or your mother or your grandmother go to Loughborough High School? Come along and relive a few memories.

02.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry, all our Loughborough Heritage Open Days Medieval Walks are fully booked on 20th and 21st September,

15.09.2025 06:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us on our Medieval Loughborough Walks part of the Loughborough Heritage Weekend 20th and 21st September
Book at lllsv@gmx.co.uk or at Loughborough Library main counter in person.

28.08.2025 23:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Visit Loughborough library and see the new exhibition, The Holiday Fortnight, read and see what happened when Loughborough Industry closed down and everyone went to the Seaside for two weeks in July.

15.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Our new exhibition at Loughborough Library opens on 10th July. Come along and relive your childhood holidays by the sea. Free entry during library open hours #localhistory #loughborough

20.06.2025 11:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Our new Exhibition The Holiday Fortnight opens on July 10th at Loughborough Library, come along and relive those wonderful days at the seaside. free entry during library opening hours.

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Last few weeks of the Library Exhibition at Loughborough Library free entry during staffed hours. Not available in smart

08.06.2025 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

19.05.2025 23:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New Exhibition by Loughborough Library Local Studies Volunteer Group at Loughborough Library, opens 9th May 2025

13.04.2025 23:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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VE Day Anniversary coming up evening of 8th May. Beacons to be lit. in 1945 the Mayor of Loughborough sent a letter to the people of the Town and we will be giving copies of the speech away on the day. Save the date and call into Queens Park to celebrate Victory in Europe Day.

24.03.2025 09:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finding stories about the Windmill Public House in Loughborough, 1883 William Parker stole a ham valued at 15s from the kitchen of the Windmill Inn. He was sentenced to two months hard labour in prison. #localhistory #loughborough

21.02.2025 23:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Working today on stories of medieval Loughborough.
Medieval Loughborough people would have kept livestock. Animals found wandering free would be taken to the local pound called the Pinfold until the owner came to collect them and paid a fine. Pinfold gate was the street that led to the Pinfold.

16.02.2025 19:53 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Sunlit winter lake and tree

Winter trees and small dog in path

Winter scene, reflection in river

Winter trees and graffiti

Beautiful sunny winter day earlier, had a walk round Dishley Pond and by the Grand Union canal

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Hathern war memorial.

Hathern war memorial. Hathern Cemetery, Hathern, Leicestershire. First and Second World Wars, Egypt and Cyprus. #LestWeForget

16.12.2024 07:30 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Hathern war memorial plaque.

Hathern war memorial plaque. St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Hathern, Leicestershire. First and Second World Wars and others who died on active service since the ending of hostilities. #LestWeForget

16.12.2024 10:33 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Great PSA. Leicestershire libraries also have loads of audiobooks (& ebooks) to choose from via Borrowbox - so useful, particularly if you can't get to the library. It's handy for magazine subscriptions too

28.08.2024 00:55 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

All Leicestershire's university libraries are now open to everyone Here's a good news story from the Leicester Mercury : Universities across Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to everyone in the c...

Anyone aged 18 and older in Leicester, Leicestershire, or Rutland can sign up to the libraries for free and borrow up to 10 books at a time. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/02/all-...

06.02.2025 18:22 — 👍 49    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 2

We're delighted to welcome Jess Vollar Bell as the new Chief Executive of The Generator Loughborough! A Loughborough local and former Rawlins pupil, Jess brings together her experience from London's theatre scene and a decade in arts venue management.

10.12.2024 16:57 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

156. Nanpantan, SW of Loughborough. The name is thought to come from ‘Pantain’, Anglo-Saxon for enclosure. The church’s War Memorial is a single block of Charnwood granite. Nearby Whittle Hill was known for ‘hone’ stones, used to sharpen knives; its quarry, opened in 1837, shut in the early C20th.

12.04.2024 07:36 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

We are here on BlueSky from today. Based at Loughborough library our home is in the Local and Family History Centre inside the listed Carnegie Library. Call in and see our latest exhibition "Loughborough's Lost Shops and Businesses", do you remember Clemersons? #localhistory #loughborough

14.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0