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  • Gardenia Tea Rooms : W.I.P.

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    05 May 2020 Original articles
    Second was In our Hathern Remembered book you can read all about the Gardenia Tea Rooms a business set up in 1927 by James Fisher and his wife Evelyn nee Tollington on a plot of land at the bottom of...

  • House plaques in Hathern

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    29 April 2020 Local records
    Waymarking.com records dated buildings and cornerstones. Here is an extract from their website showing some Hathern Houses.

  • Alex Dalgano's amazing hair oil

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    28 April 2020 Original articles
    In the 1920 and 1921 a series of ads started appearing in the Nottingham Journal advertising 'Alex Dalgarno's hair fertiliser' which claimed succesful results for thousands of people all over the...

  • Bungalow estate and POW camps in Garendon Park

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    26 April 2020 Original articles
      At the top of this article you can see the list of families who lived in Hathern Bungalow Estate as shown in the 1951/52 street directory and a map and views of the "Estate" then and now, with...

  • Kaiapoi connection

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    19 April 2020 Original articles
      As you enter Hathern from Loughborough just after the new estate on the right you will see three connected cottages - numbers 154, 152 and 150 Loughborough Road.  Until recently these were on the edge...

  • Maps 1899 1883 1921 1963

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    04 April 2020 Local records
    Hathern Ordnance Survey maps of the village. These are at a scale 1 to 25,00 (just over 25 inches to one mile).Unfortunately some allowance has had to be made for the fact that the most southern tip...

  • Vehicle hits Cross 1995

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    24 February 2020 News and Journal articles

  • Thriving village with hosiery connection

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    24 February 2020 News and Journal articles

  • Church weathercock restored in 1989

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    23 February 2020 News and Journal articles
    Restoration work by Peter Allen. Echo article October 14th 1989

  • Fire warning to Hathern residents

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    18 February 2020 Local records
    In 1858, Thomas Brooks was appointed 'pinder' (a dog catcher and pound keeper, or someone in charge of the pinfold') and issued the following warning of fire to people renting tenements on the waste...

  • Manorial records

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    18 February 2020 Local records
    On this website you can see the manorial roll for Hathern in 1765. This link mentions that there are other rolls for Hathern in the Debyshire Records Office and Leicestershire Records Office which...

  • PTA carnival 1986

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    27 January 2020 News and Journal articles

  • Boys play with live grenade

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    27 January 2020 News and Journal articles

  • Framework knitting shops in Hathern

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    16 January 2020 Original articles
    The Framework Knitting Industry in Hathern (please note this is a work in progress) From as early as the mid-17th century some Hathern residents were making their living from machine knitting:- when Mary...

  • Historic England - listed buildings in and around Hathern

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    15 January 2020 Web links
    A search for 'Hathern' on the historicengland.org.uk gives the following results of places in and around Hathern or with a Hathern (Hathernware) connection :- Hathern War Memorial ...First World War...

  • John Bramley's war story

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    14 January 2020 Local publications
    At the school photograph exhibition in January 2020, Mr. Arthur Bunker once of Hathern provided the following article from the Hathern Herald of June - August 2006. It describes the John Bramley's...

  • Memories of Hathern Band

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    14 January 2020 News and Journal articles
      The following two pictures (already in our 'clubs and society' picture gallery) were amongst the photos shown in Loughborough Echo articles from November 11th and 25th 2015. The rest of the articles...

  • Land and population 1801 to 1851

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    16 November 2019 Original articles
    Below you can find a link to a 1993 thesis examining land ownership and population changes in the first half of the nineteenth century in Hathern compared with Long Whatton, Quorn and Kegworth. ...

  • Rise and fall of glove-making in Hathern

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    12 November 2019 Original articles
    Recently some new photos have been uncovered which include the site of a glove-making 'factory' on Green Hill Rise just past the old Catholic Church. The picture shows the back of the workshop where...

  • Hathern Faience and Terracotta in Belfast store

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    11 November 2019 News and Journal articles
    This is the magnificent new building for Montague Burton in Ann Street Belfast in 1933. The description is taken from the Belfast Newsletter of August 25th. 'BURTONS’ BUILDINGS ARE WELL DRESSED IN...

  • Early wills - was Shakespeare from Hathern ?

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    06 November 2019 News and Journal articles
    Below you can see a newspaper article (date unknown) looking into sixteenth century wills from Hathern people namely the Keightleys and Fishers, Robert Shakespeyre, and William Warde. From the Frank...

  • Warbis - all the sketches

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    05 November 2019 News and Journal articles
    Alfred Warbis was a noted artist who between 1950 and 1970 supplied sketches of houses in several Leicestershire villages. More recently his son created a website containing many of these sketches...

  • Where was the Tannery in Tanners Lane ? The evidence

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    02 November 2019 Original articles
    In the mid C19th the last leather tanner in Hathern, Mr. Richard Smith was declared bankrupt and was forced to sell his property and fixtures.This marked the end of a trade that started hundreds of...

  • Bad boys

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    18 October 2019 Local records
    This is Mr. Hollis, much-loved headmaster at Hathern School from the late 1950s. As was the practise in those times, it fell to Mr.Hollis to administer corporal punishment to misbehaving children...

  • Hathern Brick Company designs 1885

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    15 October 2019 Local records
    This is an item from the selling site WorthPoint. Victorian designs. ENRICHED BRICKWORK & TERRA-COTTA FOR DOMESTIC BUILDINGS ETC. MADE BY THE HATHERN STATION BRICK CO., LOUGHBOROUGH. Maurice B. Adams,...

  • Albert Cooper - brewer

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    15 October 2019 Local records
    The following are a couple of sales of stoneware that have been on eBay in the past few years. "Your are viewing a pair of Stoneware Flagons from approx C. 1880 to 1920, both have "Albert Cooper...

  • Garendon Park gamekeeper records 1895 -1900

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    14 October 2019 Local records
    On the Garendon estate at the turn of the C19th the role of the gamekeeper was very important. At that time the two of the keepers - Henry ('Harry') Savage and Mr. Buckthorne lived in the two...

  • Postcard views

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    12 October 2019 Local records
    Leics. Heritage Collectors cards. Cross, St. Peter and St, Paul's Church, River Soar, Cross and Primary School,  Narrow Lane, Church, Zouch Weir, Church Street, Cross, Zouch Bridge, Church    

  • Garendon Hall goes up in flames. Video

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    11 October 2019 Web links
    The Lost Heritage website contains an interesting article on Garendon Hall which contains a link to a Youtube video of the fire which destroyed the hall in May 1964. The fire was deliberately...

  • Charles Farrow from framework knitter to publican

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    09 October 2019 Original articles
    Amongst some of the stuff we have received was a small savings book for Charles Farrow with interest received over the years 1911 to 1919. There is no evidence who the savings were held with. This...

  • Hathern Carnival in the news 1984

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    07 October 2019 News and Journal articles
    Carnival queen and attendants

  • Hathern news june 11 1982

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    07 October 2019 News and Journal articles
    Including whist drive and storm causing floods on the Green.  

  • Carnival cash success 1982

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    07 October 2019 News and Journal articles
    Including pictures of 3 Crowns float and carnival queen 

  • House and land sale 1874

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    12 September 2019 Original articles
    The following is an analysis by Alan Forsdick of a house sale in 1874. Just added to this article is the sale notice from the Derby Mercury containing some interesting details. In the list of the...

  • The Hattons : farmers and cattle dealers

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    27 July 2019 Original articles
      In the gallery of personal photos you can see this picture of George Percy Hatton  with his wife Alice in the 1920s. George was reputed to be a noted naturalist and herbalist.  For over 100 years the...

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