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Grantham Museum
Beaumanor History Fair, Woodhouse, LE12 8TX
Sheila Marriott's Barkestone-le-Vale Family History and Photographic Exhibition
Bottesford Living History Exhibition 2008
Bottesford Living History 2007 Exhibition
Barkestone-le-Vale Local History Exhibition 2008
Barkestone Photographic Week, 2007, and a Monkey Puzzle Mystery
Bottesford Local History Society
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Laurel and Hardy: a Life in Comedy
Bottesford Parish 1st World War Centenary
Bottesford Local History Society 2012-2013
Bottesford Local History Society 2010-2011
Bottesford Local History Society 2009-2010
Bottesford Local History Society 2008-2009
Bottesford Local History Society 2007-2008
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Newsletter 7. 'Living History' - The Newsletter of the Bottesford Community Heritage Project
Newsletter 6
Newsletter 5
Newsletter 4
Newsletter 1
Newsletter 2
Newsletter 3
A Grand Day Out or Mr Dewey Takes Charge
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A Grand Day Out
"A Grand Day Out or Mr Dewey Takes Charge"
The Living History Drama Event
Bottesford Living History Drama Event, May 4th 2008
First Time Visitor's Tour
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Village shops in the 1930s
The Bottesford Amateur Operatic Society remembered
The Queen's Jubilee 1977
Doorways and fanlights
Bottesford Bridges
1.The Bottesford Witches, Introduction
St Mary's Church, Bottesford
Queen Street - Winn's Corner Shop
Places
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Discovering Bottesford
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Bottesfordia
Eating Places in the Bottesford Area
Bottesford Local History Trail
Maps of Village History
Streets
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Albert Street
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Bottesford Scout and Guide Centre Refurbished
A Curious Discovery
Albert Street
Albert Street
Barkstone Lane
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Redevelopment of Bullock and Driffill site
Belvoir Road
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Belvoir Road
Chapel Street
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Too Hot To Handle
The Bolland Family
Remember Rosy's Shop?
Chapel Street
"A Little History of Bottesford"
Chapel Street
Church Street
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Who Lived in Church Street in 1901?
A Bottesford school photo from 1900
The Cross and Church Street
A Bottesford Childhood
Geeson's Shop, the Boy on the Box, a Parade and Albert Street
Church Street Past and Present
Grantham Road
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The Old School Clock
Lace Darners and Road Menders
Grantham Road
Bunkers Hill Cottages
High Street
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Billy Christmas' Garage
Who Lived on High Street in 1881
High Street
The Hand Charity Cottages, High Street
A Letter from Margaret Montegriffo
Christmas and Chorlton's Garage
High Street in the Past
The Rundle
Resurfacing High Street 1977
High Street - 1980's
Market Street
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Market Street
A Village Shop in Bottesford
More About The Old White House
J.D.Robinson & Co, Bottesford
"A Little History of Bottesford"
The Old White House
Cyclists in the Stocks?
Market Place and Market Street
Nottingham Road
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Glasshouses A Hundred Yards Long
Queen Street
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Lace Darners and Road Menders
Bottesford Police Station to Close
Rules and Instructions for the management of the Baptist Sunday School, Bottesford
Queen Street
They burgled the Police Station at Bottesford and 'scarpered'
The Last Parade
Queen Street - then and now
Queen Street today
Resurfacing Queen Street 2007
Rectory Lane
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Rectory Lane and the Ford
The Green
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The Hero of Nitral's Nek
Who Lived on The Green in 1901?
More about The Green
Not again!
The Green Past and Present
Landmarks
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Is This the End for the Stocks?
There's Nothing New About Renewable
The Market Cross at Bottesford
The Diamond Jubilee Clock, 1897
Bottesford Bridges
Loss of a Local Landmark.
Not again!
Linocut Prints of Local Landmarks
Happy Times
Views from "Holliers"
Village Spire View
Buildings and Houses
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Bottesford Rectory - as it was!
Do You Remember the Haunted House?
Forge Cottage
What is Bottesford Made Of?
Bottesford Roofs & Chimneys
Bottesford Library
No.4 Queen Street, formerly 'The Marquis of Granby'
Easthorpe Past and Present
Listed Buildings
House History - Claremont, High Street
Dyers Cottage
"Fieldview"
The Bull: History of an Eighteenth Century Inn
Pubs: Past and Present
The Rutland Arms
Red Lion
Six Bells
The Earl of Rutland's Hospital
Easthorpe
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The Mill House
Easthorpe Past and Present
Discovering Muston
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The Gales of Muston
My Sharpe family relations in Muston
Saved from the Silver Fish
Muston War Memorial - St John the Baptist churchyard
Muston Heritage Trail
Victim of a Vile Attorney - The Story of a Muston Man
To Grandma, From Muston
A Brief Account of the Life of George Crabbe, Rector of Muston
A Muston gallery
Normanton
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A Rather Special Garden
Flight LM311 RAAF 467 Squadron
Bottesford Airfield
Normanton - A Gallery of Photographs
Bottesford Airfield
Places of worship
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Gargoyles and Grotesques of St. Mary's
Gargoyles and Grotesques of St. Mary's
Chapels
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Rules and Instructions for the management of the Baptist Sunday School, Bottesford
St John the Baptist, Muston
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Muston War Memorial - St John the Baptist churchyard
St Mary's parish church
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St Mary's on Google
Ringing the Changes
St Mary's, Bottesford - The South Transept Window
Friends of St Mary's
The 'Holliers' of St Mary's church tower
Dedication of the Bottesford War Memorials
St George's Day Parade
Village Spire View
St Mary's, architecture and monuments
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Medieval Carvings at St Mary's
A gallery of the tower carvings
Medieval Carvings in St Mary's
The History of St Marys: A Personal Interpretation
Bottesford War Memorials - St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church, Bottesford
St Mary's Bottesford Phase I, Romanesque
St Mary's Bottesford Phase II. Decorated
St Mary's Bottesford Phase III Perpendicular Style
St Mary's Bottesford Phase IV. Early Tudor
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.I, Monument to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.II, Monument to Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.III, Monument to Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.IV, Monument to John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.V, Monument to Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
Farms
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Bottesford Farmers
Steam engines: ploughing and threshing
The Marsh Family
Pubs
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Lace Darners and Road Menders
Law and Disorder
Memories of The Bull
Pubs: Past and Present
The Rutland Arms
The Bull: History of an Eighteenth Century Inn
Red Lion
Six Bells
This Was Lunch!
Schools
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The Old School Clock
Fifty Years Ago
The 47 Vintage
Saved from the Silver Fish
Demolition of the former Secondary School pig sties
The Bottesford School Cricket Team of 1934
Growing up in Bottesford in the 60's & 70's
Bottesford school boys, 1928
Bottesford School Children
Miss Walker Remembers
Bottesford School 1945 -1946
Bottesford School Memories
The Diamond Jubilee Clock, 1897
Bottesford School during the 2nd World War
Bottesford School Children - c 1934
Bottesford School during World War 1
Bottesford Playgroup
Bottesford Infants Class 1940
Bottesford School 1948-52
Test Your Memory - Cyclists, Sightseers and Schoolteachers
School Number 3645
Christmas Past
Bottesford School Primary Class 1947-48
The Winning Team
The Class of 28
What Year Was This?
Our Village by Ash Class, Bottesford Primary School
Miss Walker's class in 1949
Schooldays Past
Linocut Prints of Local Landmarks
Bottesford Primary School
Belvoir High School
Village Hall
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Opening the New Village Hall January 1947
2003 - New VC Hall - Opening Day
1947 - The New VC Hall
The Land it stands on
Topics
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Bottesford History Archive
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A picture by Percy Stimpson
Winter scene - Devon Lane
Muston 1953, Coronation bunting at the Duke's Cottages
Wendy or Gina Topps on a cart in Daybell's farm yard Bottesford
On holiday with Tommy Robinson
Census Information
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The 1911 Census
Who Lived in Muston in 1851?
Who Lived on The Green in 1901?
Census Transcriptions
The 1881 Census for Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
The 1901 Census for Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
The 1841 Census for Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
Who Lived in Church Street in 1901?
Bottesford Census 2001
The Victorian Censuses of Bottesford and Muston
Ancestral Acres
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Ancestral Acres
Ancestral Acres: Belvoir Castle stories
Ancestral Acres: The Woods Department
Ancestral Acres: The Belvoir Estate
Ancestral Acres: World War II Service
Ancestral Acres: Down to the Seas
Allotments
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Horticultural Shows in the 1930s
A brief history of Bottesford's allotments
Wild life on the allotment
Architecture
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The History of St Marys: A Personal Interpretation
The 'Holliers' of St Mary's church tower
Bottesford Rectory - as it was!
Bottesford Police Station to Close
From Pugmill to Clamp - Brickmaking in Bottesford
The Market Cross at Bottesford
Forge Cottage
What is Bottesford Made Of?
Bottesford Roofs & Chimneys
Doorways and fanlights
Bottesford Blue Pantile
Changes
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Demolition of the former Secondary School pig sties
Getting About - Bottesford 1919 - 1960s
When the Vale Said No
Why Did the Friendly Society Change Its Motto?
Electrifying Bottesford
The Old New Road
Bottesford Library
Christmas and Chorlton's Garage
Views of Bottesford - Then and Recently
Queen Street - then and now
Redevelopment of Bullock and Driffill site
Drama Events
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A Grand Day Out
The Bottesford Amateur Operatic Society remembered
Environment
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The SINC in Winter
A Rather Special Garden
There's Nothing New About Renewable
What's Going On at the SINC?
Winter snows
The SINC in Autumn
Bottesford's SINC in the Spring
Events and Celebrations
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Is This the End for the Stocks?
Bandmaster William Sutton's cornet
Bottesford's Festival of Britain celebrations
Celebrating 100 years of Guiding
100th Birthday Party for the Guides
The Diamond Jubilee Clock, 1897
Guide Hallowe'en Celebration October 1989
Bottesford Playgroup
May Day and other celebrations
They burgled the Police Station at Bottesford and 'scarpered'
When the Vale Said No
Dancing on the Rectory lawn
Festival of Britain - Bottesford
Winter snows
Bottesford Fetes and Field days in 1947
Bottesford Library
A Bottesford Christmas
Nativity Play 1949
Ballroom Dancing in the 1930's
Horticultural Shows in the 1930s
Bottesford and District Angling Association - Dances and Whist Drives
Opening the New Village Hall January 1947
Mothers' Union
Wild life on the allotment
Not again!
Normanton Celebrates the Coronation of King George and Queen Mary
Geeson's Shop, the Boy on the Box, a Parade and Albert Street
Our Village by Ash Class, Bottesford Primary School
1962
Festival Parade 1951
Church Fete 1955
Bottesford Celebrates the Queen's Golden Jubilee
2003 - New VC Hall - Opening Day
The Queen's Jubilee 1977
1947 - The New VC Hall
Exhibitions
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Bottesford Living History Exhibition 2008
Lost painting by local artist
Our Village by Ash Class, Bottesford Primary School
Bottesford Living History 2007 Exhibition
Friendly Societies
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Why Did the Friendly Society Change Its Motto?
The Banner of the Bottesford Friendly Society
The Friendly Society Banner
Bottesford and District Angling Association - Medical and General Aid Fund
Mothers' Union
"That was a day for a top hat"
The Bottesford Friendly Society
Geology and Natural History
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Reverend William Mounsey
Geology of the Bottesford Area
What is Bottesford Made Of?
William Stukely, Robert Darwin and the Elston Crocodile
Shops and trades
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Too Hot To Handle
Lace Darners and Road Menders
High Street
Queen Street
Albert Street
Chapel Street
Market Street
The Cross and Church Street
The Norris Family
J.D.Robinson & Co, Bottesford
Geeson's Shop, the Boy on the Box, a Parade and Albert Street
"A Little History of Bottesford"
A Village Shop in Bottesford
Remember Rosy's Shop?
P & R Gibson General Store
Eric George
Christmas and Chorlton's Garage
Bottesford Post Office Staff 1912
From Pugmill to Clamp - Brickmaking in Bottesford
Locating Bottesford's brickyards and gas works
Queen Street - Louis Abbott, Decorator
Village shops in the 1930s
Shops, trades and services - turn of the millenium
Queen Street today
Kelly's Directory
Queen Street - then and now
Old Directories
Sport, Scouts & Guides, Leisure
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Marriage of David and Rita Ball (nee Rewston)
Bottesford Football Club
Bottesford Scout and Guide Centre Refurbished
Celebrating 100 years of Guiding
100th Birthday Party for the Guides
Climate change in Bottesford
Scouting in Bottesford
Guide Hallowe'en Celebration October 1989
A Day at the Seaside - the Dunsmore family
BATS Archive
BYTS & BATS
History of BATS
St Mary's Church Choir Bottesford - 1920's
Men's Football Team early 1920's
A brief history of Bottesford's allotments
Boy's Football Team 1906
Bottesford Cricket Sunday Football Club
Bottesford and District Angling Association - Suppers and Dinners
Bottesford and District Angling Association - Dances and Whist Drives
Bottesford and District Angling Association - Medical and General Aid Fund
Mothers' Union
This Was Lunch!
Women's Institute
Bottesford Football Club
Mystery outing (A Pub Crawl to Matlock)
The Bottesford Amateur Operatic Society remembered
Transport
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Lace Darners and Road Menders
Robinson Family
Bottesford's Motor World
The A52 and Bottesford
Getting About - Bottesford 1919 - 1960s
Bottesford Garages
Before the by-pass in 1988
Electrifying Bottesford
The Old New Road
GNR Bottesford Station (Date??)
Early Days on the Ambergate Railway
Happy Times
Not again!
Christmas and Chorlton's Garage
Bottesford's Railways
Flying Scotsman @ Bottesford Junction
Views of Bottesford
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The 'Holliers' of St Mary's church tower
In the Bleak Midwinter
A Winter Gallery
Before the by-pass in 1988
Winter snows
Views from "Holliers"
Linocut Prints of Local Landmarks
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Views of Bottesford - Then and Recently
Queen Street - then and now
The Rundle
Henry Goodson's Stone Trough - the Cross
Flying Scotsman@Orston Crossing
Flying Scotsman @ Bottesford Junction
Wartime Bottesford
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A Pilot's Progress
A 1919 listing of Bottesford Residents who served in WW1
Voices from Normanton Airfield
A Young Airman at Bottesford
Dedication of the Bottesford War Memorials
Militia Men, Recruits and Volunteers
Muston War Memorial - St John the Baptist churchyard
Bottesford War Memorials - St Mary's Church
The Bottesford Poppy Appeal
Montagu John Vincent-Jackson (1892-1916)
Bottesford School during World War 1
Leicestershire Regiment (?) - World War I.
Bottesford Squad Mobilization 1914
The Christmas family
Harold Hallam's Story
Mr Louis Abbott WW1 memento
The Memories of Bill Burrows
The Jallands family in the 1st and 2nd World Wars
Bottesford in War Time - Gerald Norris
Life at the 'Six Bells' during the 2nd World War
Bottesford School during the 2nd World War
Memories of a Land Girl - Edna Taylor's War
Memories of The Bull
A Medal for Gladys Marston
War Memories - Dennis and Eddie Jackson
War Time Memories - Dick and Sid Robinson
Bottesford Airfield
Bottesford Airfield
Memories of RAF Bottesford
Flight LM311 RAAF 467 Squadron
Live Poetry Event Aug 16th 2007, and seeking for stories on War time Bottesford
On the Wings of the Morning by Vincent Holyoak
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Introduction: RAF Bottesford 1941-1945
Chapter 1: Don't you know there's a war on?
Chapter 2: Leicester's Own
Chapter 3: Target for tonight
Chapter 4: ... a Piece of Cake
Chapter 5: Return to Battle
Chapter 6: Operation Millenium
Chapter 7: 'Yours in memory'
Chapter 8: 'Advance Australia'
Chapter 9: The Big City
Chapter 10: Happy Valley
Chapter 11: Shuttle to Friedrichshaven
Chapter 12: On the other side of the hill
Chapter 13: 'He will be greatly missed and mourned'
Chapter 14: On a Wing and a Prayer
Chapter 15: A Friendly Invasion
Chapter 16: 'Git thar fustest with the mostest'
Chapter 17: On the wings of the morning
Chapter 18: It's a lovely day tomorrow ...
Appendix 1: Bottesford Station and Unit Commanders
Appendix 2: Aircrew and Aircraft Losses
Roman Archaeology in Easthorpe
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Roman Discoveries during Fieldwork at Easthorpe, Bottesford
Results 1: Iron Age Pottery
Results 2: CGlA CG1B 'Shelly Ware'
Results 3: Black Burnished 1 Pottery
Results 4: Samian Pottery
Results 5: Greyware Pottery
Results 6: Lower Nene Valley Ware
Results 7: Mortaria, White ware, Oxfordshire ware
Results 8: Derbyshire Dalesware and OW2
Bottesford Witches
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1.The Bottesford Witches, Introduction
2.The Bottesford Witches, The Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Joan, Margaret and Phillipa Flower
3.The Bottesford Witches, Maleficium
4.The Bottesford Witches, Witches Familiars
5.The Bottesford Witches, Image Magic
6. The Bottesford Witches, Counter Magic
7. The Bottesford Witches, Bellarmine Witch Bottles
People
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Bottesfordia
Militia Men, Recruits and Volunteers
John Cullen 1838 - 1914
Miss Walker Remembers
Village people
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Too Hot To Handle
Bandmaster William Sutton's cornet
Billy Christmas' Garage
Mrs Isabella Gale
The Hero of Nitral's Nek
The Samuel family in Bottesford
Ancestral Acres
Bottesford's Festival of Britain celebrations
The Old School Clock
Marriage of David and Rita Ball (nee Rewston)
Lace Darners and Road Menders
Mary Topps
Police Sergeant Arthur Bradshaw
Bottesford Farmers
Reverend William Mounsey
The 47 Vintage
Eric George
Remember Rosy's Shop?
Growing up in Bottesford in the 60's & 70's
Bottesford school boys, 1928
A Rather Special Garden
Climate change in Bottesford
Montagu John Vincent-Jackson (1892-1916)
William Sutton 1895 - 1967
Test Your Memory - Cyclists, Sightseers and Schoolteachers
A Victorian garden party
St Mary's Church Choir Bottesford - 1920's
Bottesford Post Office Staff 1912
Festival of Britain - Bottesford
GNR Bottesford Station (Date??)
Mr Collett ('the Old Boss'), Bottesford's Edwardian headmaster
A Brief Account of the Life of George Crabbe, Rector of Muston
Women's Institute
Mystery outing (A Pub Crawl to Matlock)
Arthur Marston
Sergeant Arthur Bradshaw
Village people - Dorothy Beedham
Dr Nora Kathleen Woll
Queen Street - Louis Abbott, Decorator
Village families
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The Gales of Muston
Mrs Isabella Gale
The Samuel family in Bottesford
The Bolland Family
Memories of the James family.
Local Goodsons
Memories of Bottesford
John Thomas Cooper, his family and descendents
The Ravells of Bottesford
Memories of the Dent and Stanley Families of Bottesford
My Sharpe family relations in Muston
Census Transcriptions
Saved from the Silver Fish
The Christmas family
The Norris Family
Robinson Family
Steam engines: ploughing and threshing
Do You Remember the Haunted House?
A Day at the Seaside - the Dunsmore family
My Dewey family tree
The Marsh Family
The Bainbridge Family
More about The Green
The Family Album
Choristers - about 1909
A Bottesford Childhood
The Beckett Family
Recollections of Post War Bottesford
Lincolnshire Harbys in Bottesford and Muston
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Lincolnshire Harbys in Bottesford and Muston
John and Nellie Bullock and their son Frankie
Henry and Mary Harby with daughter Annie
Harby Family Brothers in the War
Children and Teenagers
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Belvoir Secondary Modern and Bottesford Scouts
Fifty Years Ago
Saved from the Silver Fish
Eels for breakfast
Bottesford Scout and Guide Centre Refurbished
Celebrating 100 years of Guiding
100th Birthday Party for the Guides
The Bottesford School Cricket Team of 1934
Bottesford School Children
Bottesford School 1945 -1946
The Great Bottesford Coke 'Train'
A Bottesford school photo from 1900
Bottesford School Children - c 1934
Baby Show 1950 at The Village Hall, Bottesford
Bottesford Infants Class 1940
Bottesford School 1948-52
Dancing on the Rectory lawn
May Queen - 1932-1934(?)
Bottesford School Primary Class 1947-48
Boy's Football Team 1906
The Winning Team
The Class of 28
What Year Was This?
Bottesford Football Club
Miss Walker's class in 1949
Schooldays Past
Wartime memories
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A 1919 listing of Bottesford Residents who served in WW1
Voices from Normanton Airfield
A Young Airman at Bottesford
Dedication of the Bottesford War Memorials
Eels for breakfast
Muston War Memorial - St John the Baptist churchyard
Flight LM311 RAAF 467 Squadron
The Bottesford Poppy Appeal
Memories of a Land Girl - Edna Taylor's War
A Medal for Gladys Marston
War Memories - Dennis and Eddie Jackson
The Jallands family in the 1st and 2nd World Wars
War Time Memories - Dick and Sid Robinson
Harold Hallam's Story
Bottesford in War Time - Gerald Norris
William Sutton 1895 - 1967
The Memories of Bill Burrows
Leicestershire Regiment (?) - World War I.
Bottesford Squad Mobilization 1914
The Last Parade
Memory Lane
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The Samuel family in Bottesford
Memories of Bottesford
Bottesford School Memories
Bottesford's Motor World
The Great Bottesford Coke 'Train'
Life at the 'Six Bells' during the 2nd World War
Lost painting by local artist
Victim of a Vile Attorney - The Story of a Muston Man
A Village Shop in Bottesford
To Grandma, From Muston
Bicycle Ride - c.1910(?)
A Bottesford Christmas
Christmas Past
Cyclists in the Stocks?
A Letter from Margaret Montegriffo
Eddie Houghton-Ward's memories of Bottesford 1939 - 1980
Mr Louis Abbott WW1 memento
Bunkers Hill Cottages
Queen Street - Winn's Corner Shop
George Crabbe 1754-1832
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1. Introduction George Crabbe,1754 - 1832.
2. That Boy Must Be a Fool
3.The Duke's Poetical Chaplain
4. Four Happy Years
5. The Best Local History I Can
6. Return to Suffolk
7. Muston, the Methodists and The Parish Register
8. Vice in Every Village, Poverty in Every Cottage
9. Public Success and Domestic Sorrow
10. She Is Gone
11. Not the Place It Has Been
12. A Literary Celebrity
Earls of Rutland
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St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.I, Monument to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.II, Monument to Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.III, Monument to Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.IV, Monument to John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland
St Mary's Bottesford Phase V.V, Monument to Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
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Elizabeth Sidney 1585-1612. Her Life
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