Category: Community

July - Richard Darke Achievement Awards at three local primary schools and the Kibworth High School. Dictionaries were presented to all leavers at the primary schools.

Each month on a Sunday morning your Kibworth & District Chronicleis ‘laid up’ on boards in Kibworth Village Hall. This has been taking place ten times a year for over 41 years. From almost the beginning, Lois Harrison, reaching the age of 90 this year, has attended to read through copy (along with several others) check grammar, spelling and punctuation and carry out some minor editing before arranging the various articles on a page template ready for the printers.

On Friday 15 March 2019 the annual Village Quiz Night was held at the home of John and Anne Emery.

How often do you drive along country roads or go for a walk and comment on the amount of litter? Kibworth resident, Liz Gilbert, decided she wanted to do something about it and has started a campaign to encourage everyone who enjoys walking in the countryside to make an effort to pick up rubbish. As she says “it’s our countryside so we have to look after it”. In the last few weeks Liz has collected over 40 bags of rubbish, ten of them filled with items found on the Kibworth to Tur Langton road when it was closed to traffic. 

The roof of one of Leicestershire’s most iconic churches has now been replaced with stainless steel after callous thieves stripped the lead off it three times. The replacement is not worth as much to scrap metal thieves as lead thus detering further crime. 

We started the year with a bit of exercise (not too much), we had an evening of ten pin bowling. 

Two Shires Medical Practice and Kibworth Medical Centre are set to merge into one practice next month offering patients more choice in access to health services.

Thank you to Jennifer Rogers of Husbands Bosworth who has kindly let me have this old postcard showing the High Street and the old mud-walled cottage on the right. The mud cottage with thatched roof was demolished around 1949/50. Such a sad loss of this charming piece of Kibworth’s history. The last occupant was Charlie Everitt and his son, Ted. All that remains to this day is the front wall of the old cottage. 

Although it is still late winter, it’s encouraging see bulbs pushing their leaves above ground and hellebores, snowdrop and crocus in flower. We can look forward to the approaching growing year, and start planning our plots. 

The Kibworth & Fleckney Rotary Club hold an Annual Charity ‘Trolleydash’ Lottery in December. The winner has the opportunity to run round Sainsbury’s in Market Harborough for 3 minutes and fill their trolley with Christmas Fayre.