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A Smythies meets a gruesome death in Argentina

A bitter dispute over union membership at Hathern Terracotta Works in 1917

2 page spread in Loughborough Echo 1980. Churches and chapels, pubs and shops, societies and sport

History of Hathern's parish church. 2005 book by Dr. Andree Bagley.

County Bridge is due to be replaced. There has been a bridge in this vicinity for 700 years.

On tenterhooks. History of the Leys and links to the Coddington family.

From the 1950s, a local artist Alfred Thomas Warbis contributed many fine sketches of local buildings to the Loughborough Echo in a series called "From an Artist's Sketchbook".

WAKEY WAKEY. Mrs. Mills who ran the Kings Arms pub in the 1960s was famous for her apearances on Billy Cotton's bandshow and Morecombe and Wise

Lucy Phillips story of her father's life, giving a remarkable insight into Hathern in the first half of the C19th

The site of Hathern's Asylum of 1811 and 1812 has been identified.

Shepshed Reds and Hathern Blues combine to produce great wrestlers who take the country by storm

What was it really like to be in Hathern in 1881 ?   "On entering you are greeted with a characteristic whirr from one workshop after another...".

Hanford and Davenport was for many years a much-respected maker of agricultural machinery.

Several people are proud owners of clocks made by Henry Spittle. Less well known is that he was also a watchmaker

New in Feb 2017. Full text of enclosure award along with map

Great celebrations as the new co-op store is opened in October 1878

WW1. Hathern brickyard's vital role in production of acid-resistant containers for explosives.

Rev. A.J. Ison's history of Hathern from the Domesday Book to the end of the C19th.

Extract from Nichol's.History of Leicestershire. Hathern from C11th to 1800.

Edward Smythies, Hathern's vicar from 1859 to 1891 made many enemies.

Public punishment in Hathern church and Loughborough marketplace 

Historic meeting of royal cousins at Zouch Bridge near Hathern

Weekly log of Hathern's ARP wardens. What to do if we are invaded.

 Rev. E.T.M Phillips speaks after man dies in drinking incident  

Marriage and banns records have been found in Stints Farm.

Yarker Hunt recording in British Library. Fascinating memories.