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Multi Topic Books - On Local Villages & Hamlets
Mining - Coal, Limestone & Iron Ore
A Social & Industrial History Of Griffydam And Peggs Green
Coleorton Village History As Seen Through The Eyes Of The Newspapers
The Hamlet Of Lount And The Immediate Vicinity
A Social & Industrial History Of Heath End & Surrounding Area
A History Of The Woolrooms In Worthington Parish
How Worthington Evolved From An Anglo-Saxon Settlement Into A Parish c1878
Other Industries
A History Of Limestone Burning In North West Leicestershire
James & Charles Marson Nailmakers In Gelsmoor
Charlie Marson Coleorton Master Nailmaker
The Bread Oven Aqueduct Road Gelsmoor
A History Of Three Local Blacksmith Shops
A History Of Coleorton Brickworks
Spar Ornament/Bauble Making In The Local Area
Woolcombing, Yarn Spinning & Framework Knitting In Local Villages
The Brickworks At Breedon Brand
Griffydam Brick, Patent Interlocking House Tile & Earthenware Works
California Brick Works Pegg's Green
Trade Of Woollen Cloth Weaving At Griffydam
Vanished Industries By H Butler Johnson
Coal Distillation Manufacturing Plants At Newbold
Worthington's Water Driven Corn Mill
Education
Griffydam Wesleyan Day School 1853-1921
Griffydam Senior And Infant Schools
Staunton Harold School Lount Cross Roads
The Providence Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Gelsmoor
Newbold Church Of England School
How Osgathorpe Lost Its Thomas Harley Endowed Grammar School
Public Houses
A History Of The Railway Inn Gelsmoor
A History Of The Bell Inn Coleorton
The Waggon & Horses Griffydam & The Adjacent Blacksmith's Shop
The Packhorse Inn Preston's Lane, Coleorton
The Hamlet Of Lount And The Immediate Vicinity (See Part 4 Ferrers Arms)
Travellers Rest & Rising Sun Beer Houses - Griffydam
The Old Engine Inn & The New Engine Inn
The Ferrer's Arms (Formally The Horse & Groom) In The Hamlet Of Lount
Blacksmith's Arms Beer House Coleorton
Queen's Head Inn - An Old Coleorton Ale House (Research Period 1753-1881)
A History Of Osgathorpe's Former Ale Houses And Inns
A History Of The Old & New 'Cross Keys' Public Houses In Newbold
Law & Order
Death By Public Hanging Of A Local Man For Horse Stealing
Transportation For Life - Hitchcock, Branston & Bull - For Crimes Committed
A Synopsis Of The History Of Court Leet & Court Baron
A Griffydam Haystack The Centre Of A Court Trial
The Story Of A Shocking Child Murder In Peggs Green 1865
A Felony And The Kidnapping Of A Nine Week Old Child In 1854
Last Hanging And Axe Beheading In Britain At Derby Friar Gate Gaol 1817
A Robbery Committed At Worthington In 1843
Miscellaneous
Local Village Sanitation And Conditions c1870
The Miner's Welfare Institute Pegg's Green
A Compilation Of Newspapers On The Local Area From 1814
Local Fundraising For Loughborough Hospital
Benevolence Shown By The Village Of Worthington 1815
A Royal Connection With Griffydam's Ancient Spring
Child Labour In The 19th Century
1921 Spring Polling Register For The Local Area
The 1926 Willesley Lake Tragedy Involving A Couple From Griffydam
The Beaumont Rifle Club At Sarniper
Coleorton Fishpond & Bridge And The Paddock Colliery
The Royston Singers Of Newbold
William Garner's Cottage Griffydam
Turning Back The Clock In The Area Of Zion Hill, Pegg's Green
Post 1845 Hand Drawn Map Of Rotten Row Area
A Short Story About Local Ice Cream Making In The First Half Of 1900's
A Whirlwind In Worthington & Tonge On The 2nd June 1620
A Remarkable Find Of Historical Artifacts At Griffydam
A Short History Of Clay Smoking Pipes Including Those Found At Griffydam
Stewart, Marson, Bird and Richard's Family Research
Sport
Pegg's Green's Famous Footballer Joe Bradford
Pegg's Green Victoria Football Club 1885 - c.1930
Coleorton Rovers Football Team 1947-1960
Coleorton Beaumont Cricket Club 1852-1923
The Beginnings Of Football In Griffydam
The Development Of Coal Mining In The Local Area
A Record Of Fatalities In Local Coal Mines 1782 - 1957
Horse Driven Gin Pit, Gin Stables & Farm In Worthington Parish
A History Of The Limestone And Lead Quarries At Dimminsdale
A Social & Industrial History Of Heath End And Surrounding Area
Iron Ore Mining & Smelting At Staunton Harold
Coal Mining, Brick & Sanitary Pipe Making In The Vicinity Of Newbold
A History Of Coleorton No3 Colliery (Bug & Wink) 1875 - 1933
Coal Mining In Pegg's Green Early 19th Century To 1859
The Califat Coal Mine Tragedy October 1863
Coleorton Fishpond & Bridge And The Paddock Colliery
Huntingdon Beaumont Coal Mining & Railway Entrepreneur c.1560-1624
Coleorton No. 1 Colliery At Peggs Green
The 1842 General Strike & Its Effect On Coal Miners In NW Leicestershire
Coal Distillation Manufacturing Plants At Newbold
New Lount Colliery Drift Mine Shaft And Man Rider Project Opened 1956
Swannington No2 Colliery (Sinope) & Swannington No3 Colliery (Clink)
In Memory Of 'Known' Coal Miners Who Died In Coleorton & Peggs Green Collieries
New Lount Colliery Pit Head Baths & Canteen
A Drift Shaft From Disused Coleorton No3 Colliery To New Lount Colliery
In Memory Of Coal Miners Who Died Or Who Were Seriously Injured At New Lount Colliery, Newbold
William Stenson A Native Coleorton (The Father Of Coalville Town)
A Synopsis Of The Burslems Influence On Coal Mining In Coleorton & The Manor Of Overton Saucey
Messr's Boultbee's Coal Mine In The Area Of Rotten Row
The Loyal William Worswick Lodge Of Oddfellows
The Whitwick Colliery Disaster - In Memory Of William Davies Pegg's Green
The Birch Families Of Gelsmoor & Coleorton
Brothers Thomas & Nathan Lord Killed In Accidents At The Bug & Wink
Transportation
A History Of The Coleorton Railway
The Charnwood Forest Canal And Its Tramways
The Local Hawking Of Coal By Packhorses
Turnpike Roads In North West Leicestershire
Religion
Development Of Primitive & Wesleyan Methodism In The Local Area
Lount Primitive Methodist Chapel
The Providence Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Gelsmoor
A History Of St Mary's Church & Graveyard Coleorton
The First 100 Years Of Swannington/Coleorton Baptists
The Sion Baptist Chapel Pegg's Green Established 1795 And Penny School
Promoting The Anglican Faith In The Parish Of Worthington
A History Of St John's Mortuary Chapel To St John' The Apostle & Evangelist - Coleorton
Griffydam Wesleyan Methodist & Wesleyan Reform Chapels
Griffydam Methodist Chapel Sunday School
An Overview Of The Life Of Rev. Francis Merewether & Family Members
The Pestells' - From Rectors To Slave Owners
Rev. Harold Robinson - Rector Of Coleorton Parish 1901-1921
The Rev William Beresford Beaumont - Rector Of Coleorton For 36 Years
People
John & William Berkin Pioneers Of Montana
The Sherwin Family 1739 - 1887
Sir George Beaumont Return To Coleorton & Re-Building Of The Old Manor House
The Sporting Baronet 11th Baronet Of Stoughton
The Origins Of The Staunton Harold Estate (The Shirley's)
Huntingdon Beaumont Coal Mining & Railway Entrepreneur c.1560-1624
John Kendrick Local Business Man & His Family
Memories Are Made Of This The Barkby's & Richards
Joseph Boultbee The First Of Griffydam
William Wordsworth Winter Garden At Coleorton Hall
Robert Chaplin's Architectural Contributions At Coleorton Hall
The Kidger's & Richard's Families Of Pegg's Green
Sir George Howland William Beaumont 9th Baronet Of Stoughton At Coleorton Hall 1828-1882
Sir George Howland William Beaumont 10th Baronet Of Stoughton 1851-1914
William Dexter and His Wife Mary Of Griffith Dam
Frank Hodges - Respected Business Man And Benefactor To Newbold
Synopsis Of The Life Of Sir George Howland Francis Beaumont 12th & Last Baronet Of Stoughton
William Stenson A Native Coleorton (The Father Of Coalville Town)
Old Transcribed Wills, Administration Documents and Inventories Applicable To Griffydam
Samuel Goacher Of Coleorton - A Pauper
The Rev William Beresford Beaumont - Rector Of Coleorton For 36 Years
The Loyal William Worswick Lodge Of Oddfellows
The Birch Families Of Gelsmoor & Coleorton
Frank Joseph Dimmock 1870-1935
(read about Frank's son Sam Dimmock here>>)
A Story About The Goodmans - A Respected Old Osgathorpe Family
Osgathorpe Marriages 1583-1891
John Allsopp 1650-1683 And His Bequeathment To Osgathorpe
The Bostocks - An Old Osgathorpe Family Who Became Successful Limestone Burners & Farmers
Margaret Mead's Charity Relating To Osgathorpe, Belton & Thringstone
Thomas & Elizabeth King Of Osgathorpe
Houses & Gardens
Sir George Beaumont Return To Coleorton & Re-Building Of The Old Manor House
William Wordsworth Winter Garden At Coleorton Hall
Robert Chaplin's Architectural Contributions At Coleorton Hall
The Early 19th Century Ice House At Coleorton Hall
Coade Stone Artefacts And W Cary Sundial At Coleorton Hall
A History Of Stordon Grange (Fourth Edition)
A Study On The Origins Of The Staunton Harold Estate
The Leasing Of Coleorton Hall 1891-1925 By The Donisthorpes'
& Abel Smiths'
The Sunken Gardens And Fish Pool Coleorton Hall
In Memory Of Three Japanese POWs From Griffydam & Peggs Green
In Memory Of 4258 Private John William Barkby
Private Harry Toon 1895 - Nov 15th 1915
A Tribute To 241073 Private Charles Batson Killed In Action In WW1
16637 Private Albert Shakespeare Died 22 Aug 1917
In Memory Of 16636 Private Thomas William Curtis
In Memory Of Sapper Harold Curtis
In Memory Of 15925 Lance Corporal William Bird
In Memory Of S/17043 Private Albert Ernest Smith
In Memory Of Samuel Bartholomew Albert Smith 1920-1943 Of Osgathorpe
241306 Victor Ernest Whyman Of Griffydam
In Memory Of 16638 Private Alfred Clifford
In Memory Of 105185 Private Samuel Richards Of Osgathorpe
In Memory Of 1648 Corporal Frederick Burton Of Osgathorpe
Griffydam Home Guard With Supplementary Information On Other Local Home Guard Platoons
Frank Joseph Dimmock 1870-1935
(read about Frank's son Sam Dimmock here>>)
Memories Of A Second World War Evacuee Hosted In Coleorton
