Glasshouses A Hundred Yards Long
Joy Simpson remembers her family's nursery.
Too Hot To Handle
John Simpson remembers his father's bakery.
Ringing the Changes
Bells and Bellringers of St. Mary's
Is This the End for the Stocks?
Bottesford stocks and whipping post fall victim to runaway car
Bottesfordia
A Photo Essay c. 1950
The Hero of Nitral's Nek
A Bottesford Boer War Soldier
The Old School Clock
It stopped, but it started again.
Lace Darners and Road Menders
Men's Work, Women's Work, Bottesford, early Twentieth Century
Bottesford Police Station to Close
160 Years of Rural Policing. Is Bottesford Leicestershire's Oldest Village Police Station?
Militia Men, Recruits and Volunteers
Bottesford Men in C18th and C19th Military Records
John Cullen 1838 - 1914
Clergyman poet - Curate St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford 1869 - 1874
10. She Is Gone
The death of Sarah Crabbe, September 1813
Fifty Years Ago
The Official Opening of Belvoir Secondary School
From Pugmill to Clamp - Brickmaking in Bottesford
How the bricks were made in Bottesford's brickyard.
The 47 Vintage
Bottesford School 1947
Who Lived on The Green in 1901?
In the footsteps of the ennumerator.
Saved from the Silver Fish
Muston School Photograph 1902 - Can You Supply the Missing Names?
Bottesford Scout and Guide Centre Refurbished
A Celebration in Verse, Pictures and Lots of Cake
Law and Disorder
License and Libel in Bottesford Two Hundred Years Ago
100th Birthday Party for the Guides
Bottesford Celebrates 100 Years of Guiding - How Did It All Begin?
Bottesford School Children
Can you help date this photograph?
Miss Walker Remembers
Bottesford School 1945 - 1967
There's Nothing New About Renewable
Renewable Energy in Bottesford - Past and Future
The Bottesford Poppy Appeal
Mrs. June Everton Poppy Volunteer for 25 Years-A Remarkable Achievement.
Harold Hallam's Story
In her memoir of her father, Inspector Arthur Smith, Diana Pearson Vale recalls one Bottesford man who went away to war.
A Curious Discovery
Can You Identify this Mystery Object?
What's Going On at the SINC?
Bottesford's Site of Importance for Nature Conservation, Summer 2008
A Grand Day Out
Photographs of the Bottesford 'Living History' Community Drama Event.
Newsletter 6
April 2008 - Living History- The Newsletter of the Bottesford 'Living History' Project.
The Marsh Family
Farmers and horse breeders
What is Bottesford Made Of?
The Geology of the Bottesford Area
When the Vale Said No
Rural Backwater Roused for Battle
Memories of The Bull
A War-Time Childhood
More about The Green
Responses to our request for information
The Family Album
Groups and Gatherings: Hallam; Goodson; Palmer and Dunsmore families
School Number 3645
Bottesford National School Log Book, Girls and Infants, January 19th to February 25th 1863
Newsletter 5
January 2008
The Old White House
Market Street 1980s
Nativity Play 1949
Mary and Joseph and the babe, lying in a manger
Christmas Past
Scenes from the 1950s - From the Bottesfordian 1951 & 1952
The Last Parade
Stand-Down of the Home Guard, December 3rd 1944
The SINC in Autumn
October Evening 2007
Barkestone Photographic Week, 2007, and a Monkey Puzzle Mystery
Where is the house and monkey puzzle tree in the first picture?
Newsletter 4
Living History - The Newsletter of the Bottesford 'Living History' Community Heritage Project. Issue 4. September 2007
A Bottesford Childhood
Memories of Bottesford in the 1940s and 50s
The Class of 28
Bottesford Primary School Children 1928
My Finds
In Celebration of National Archeology Week, Bottesford's Youngest Archeologist, 5 year old Will, records his finds.
Happy Times
Memories of a Bottesford Trainspotter
Not again!
Another Fine Mess at the Ford - 5th July 2007
What Year Was This?
Can You Identify These Children?
There's Nothing Simple About a Scarecrow
Bottesford Scarecrow Trail, May 19th-20th, 2007
Rectory Lane and the Ford
A Gallery of Photographs
This Was Lunch!
Those Were the Days -A trip to Lancashire 1961 or 62
1. Introduction George Crabbe,1754 - 1832.
Poet, naturalist, local historian and rector of Muston
Schooldays Past
Can you identify these children? Were you one of them? Add your memories to this page.
Bottesford's SINC in the Spring
The Railway Triangle, photographed in April 2007
Grantham Road
A Gallery of Photographs
Bunkers Hill Cottages
A Great Time Was Had by All
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Bottesford through the Seasons
1962
You must Remember This
Festival Parade 1951
Peace to All Nations
Church Fete 1955
In the Rectory Grounds
Chapel Street
A Gallery of Photographs
11. Not the Place It Has Been
Crabbe at Muston 1813 - 1814
5. The Best Local History I Can
Crabbe's First Years in Muston 1789 - 1792
4. Four Happy Years
Crabbe at Stathern 1785 - 1789
3.The Duke's Poetical Chaplain
George Crabbe at Belvoir 1782 - 1785
2. That Boy Must Be a Fool
Crabbe's Early Life 1754 - 1782
Newsletter 2
January 2007
Newsletter 1
October 2006
High Street in the Past
Help us to create a picture of High Street as it used to be
Listed Buildings
Information drawn from English Heritage's website
Six Bells
A Lost Alehouse