Sleuthing get-togethers

Our next "Sleuthing" event will be on Saturday 5 October 10.30am at The New Inn, Peggs Green.

Entry is £3 including coffee/tea and biscuits. No need to book, just turn up.

Coleorton Heritage Group hold regular "Sleuthing" get-togethers and coffee mornings to see if we can identify faces and places in old photos. We achieve some success and have a great time doing it.

As well as Coleorton folks we've welcomed friends from Leicester whose family used to run The Kings Arms and before that The Angel, and a couple from Melton Mowbray who had found a photo of the Coleorton Hall tenants and staff from 1919 and have discovered family links in Farm Town.

We put names to people in old photographs and also try to identify old houses - or where a house or building has been demolished where they were located. This would contribute to Shaelyn's House History project.

We're also inviting you to bring an artefact - an item you've kept from childhood, found in a charity shop, dug up in your garden. See what we all make of it! At our last Sleuthing morning items brought included a cannon ball found in a garden, a brass gizmo for stopping polish getting on officers' uniforms when buffing up the buttons (who'd have thought!) and some religious texts found in the attic.

We will have transcriptions of some Coleorton Census records and the 1939 Register to view.

If you don't have any items or are new to the area come anyway and enjoy a chat about Coleorton past and present. For further info email enquiries@coleortonheritage.org.uk or phone Sandra on 01530 440000.

Some other Coleorton Heritage events

• Exhibition "Coleorton People"
  Saturday 21 September at the Beaumont Centre, Nottingham Road, Peggs Green. Part of NWLDC Hello Heritage festival. More details later.

Some previous events

• Open exhibition at St Marys Church Fiday 17 & Saturday 18 May 2024. Celebrating Sir George Beaumont and the 200th Anniversary of the National Gallery and the history of St Mary's Church.
• History Walks and the Coleorton Heritage Trail
• "How Coleorton people made their living" exhibition September 2023
• "Homes and buildings of Coleorton" exhibition September 2022
• "This is Coleorton" open day and mini-exhibition 10 & 11 September 2021
• Main events page

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