Category: Local History

Although the boat numbers have been down all season, there seems to have been a late spurt of activity. The October half term weeks were reasonably fine, and unseasonably mild, so visitor numbers picked up a bit as well.  Later storm Bert wreaked damage across the canal system; in Foxton three large Scots pines came down near Clarks Bridge (No 5) blocking the navigation. They have been cleared now.

The monthly parish council meeting was held on 5 November at 7pm in the Studio at the Kibworth Community Hub.

Issue 1                    Daryl Smith and Geoff Crowther

Whilst recently helping out at Kibworth Harcourt Post Mill over Heritage Weekend - 14 and 15 September - I was given a souvenir programme from the Kibworth Festival which took place between 23 October and 31 October 1976 - 48 years ago this very month.

Reading Roger Garratt’s essay on Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School’s incredible history in recent issues of the Chronicle has led to 10 years of The Beauchamp Magazine being handed over which make interesting reading.

A team, including a leading British explorer and a local Foxton man, have become the first people to have ever travelled the length of an uncharted Amazon river and pick up two Guiness World records along the way.

I’m trying to find out where this photo of me was taken about 55 or 56 year ago in 1968 or 1969.  It would probably be within a 5 to 8 mile radius of Bulkington, Warwickshire.

Harborough District Council have received the following planning application.

Edward Kennard (above) was Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire and a justice of the peace, who lived at ‘The Barn’(below), which was a large property situated on the hill off Shrewsbury Avenue in Little Bowden, Market Harborough. He had travelled in America during the Civil War (1861 – 1865) and entered Richmond, Virginia with the Northern troops. He won the second prize in the 1,000 miles motor competition in 1900 and was an ardent motor cyclist. Edward Kennard’s paintings in watercolours and oils were regarded as treasures in leading art circles, especially those done on china. Of which he had a unique collection. He also won several prizes for photography and was a well- known sporting novelist.

When I looked in on Harborough indoor market recently, I didn’t expect to find such an unusual and rather rare piece of local history. Boxes full of old postcards from yesteryear were on display on one of the stalls.