.................HATHERN'S HISTORY - ALL THE LATEST ARTICLES.......

New articles continue to be added during the lockdown as indicated below. Also another photo (front and back) has been added to the article on Ernest Antill, Hathern's own itinerant Victorian photographer.

  • Tanners Lane (work in progress)

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    23 February 2021 Original articles
    Tanners Lane is the only street name that survives today from the 1778 enclosure map. On this site we have already investigated the location of the Tannery. We have also looked at the history of the...

  • The Griffin family on The Green

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    05 February 2021 Original articles
    Amongst several family albums seen by the History Society is that of the Griffin family who lived at number 8 The Green. This had the dubious priviledge of being one of the last houses in the...

  • Flying pioneer was born in Hathern

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    05 February 2021 Original articles
    George Cyril Colmore born in Hathern in 1886 was the first qualified pilot in the Royal Navy. After completing training, which Colmore paid for out of his own pocket, he was issued with Royal Air...

  • WW2 casualties were related

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    30 December 2020 Original articles
    In Hathern Cemetery is this memorial to those who fell in military service in world wars and other conflicts. Included in the WW2 list are two grandchildren of John Alexander Swift and his wife...

  • Healthy Hathern

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    19 October 2020 News and Journal articles
    In the Leicester Daily Post of June 6th 1914 Hathern was declared as the second healthiest village in Leicestershire (Old Wigston was the healthiest). This was despite the dire state of the...

  • De Lisle's have a garage sale in 1879

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    07 October 2020 Original articles
      In the summer of 1879 there was an auction at the King's Head, Loughborough of freehold property in Hathern and Shepshed. This was widely advertised in the press leading up to this occasion for...

  • Hathern lady shares in windfall from long lost brother

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    02 September 2020 Original articles
      This is  the headline from the local paper in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada on March 19th 1932. Henry Sirrell had died intestate four years previously and had no known relatives. Unless next of kin could...

  • Swallow Walk estate built 1960s

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    29 August 2020 Local records
    In the 1960s a large number of new houses were built on the East side of the village with access provided from Gladstone Street, Wide Street,Tanners Lane and Anchor Lane. Most of the land had...

  • Death and disease in Victorian Hathern

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    29 August 2020 Original articles
    Opium-derived drugs (opiates) include heroin, morphine and codeine. They were marketed and used to treat teething from perhaps as early as the 1700s, By the mid-1800s, tincture of opium (AKA...

  • 19 the Leys. Saved from demolition

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    19 August 2020 Original articles
    On the left is a photo of 19 The Leys as it was a few years back (from our gallery of streets and houses). Since then new houses have been built on the quite large area of land that it occupied and...

  • Housing shortage 1919

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    18 August 2020 News and Journal articles
    Housing shortage 1919 Here are two articles from the summer of 1919 in which the Parish Council discuss the question of housing provision by the District Council to villages including Belton and...

  • Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

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    16 August 2020 News and Journal articles
    In June 1897 the country celebrated the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. A bank holiday was declared for Tuesday June 22nd and hundreds of thousands watched the royal parade in London. In Hathern,...

  • George Marcus Hollis - headmaster

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    12 August 2020 Original articles
    Here you can see a profile by Kay Hughes of Hathern's much-loved headmaster George Marc Hollis after whom Hollis Way is named. Mr. Hollis was headmaster from 1954 to 1970.

  • Farming in Hathern through the ages

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    29 June 2020 Original articles
    Here is a link to an article written by Andree Bagley of Hathern History Society in June 2020 which describes agricultural practices up to the Saxon period in England and the East Midlands. These practices led...

  • Gardenia Tea Rooms : the Tollingtons and Fishers

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    05 May 2020 Original articles
    In our book 'Hathern Remembered' you can read all about the Gardenia Tea Rooms a business created by James Fisher and his wife Evelyn, née Tollington. The information about the Tea Rooms was...

  • 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 fertiliser

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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
    The Hathern Street Directory of 1951-52 listed the residents of the Hathern Bungalow Estate: what was it and where was it? The "Bungalow Estate" was emergency housing created in 1949 from buildings...

  • Kaiapoi cottage connection to the Moody family

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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...

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