St. Mary’s Church Wymeswold is under threat following the discovery of more dry rot in the roof, which urgently needs replacing.  An application has been made to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and the aim is also to put St. Mary’s on the map as an important heritage site, and to have more history-based activities in Wymeswold.

To help secure National Lottery Heritage funding, as many people as possible are needed to give their input.  Please help by completing this survey, which is also published in June’s edition of the Link.

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Mark Kirk has been researching his mother’s side of his family. Closest relations are Sheppards but he is also related to Woottons, Hallams, James, Mills, Eggletons and others. Continue reading →

View the latest updates from the Wolds Historical Organisation here, including Wymeswold Mothers’ Union teapot, Wymeswold School Class of 67, and Wysall Lane windmills enigma.

A detailed history of activities at Wymeswold airfield in the 1950s and 1960s has been prepared by Richard Knight, who grew up at the western end of the runways.

There is a free pdf available via the Wolds Historical Association website at http://www.hoap.co.uk/who/index.htm#raf.

Take a look at http://www.hoap.co.uk/who/index.htm for some seasonally flavoured articles, and a photograph of The Stockwell that was recently published in the Loughborough Echo.

Copies of ‘People and Places of the Wolds’ are still available to purchase at Granville’s in Wymeswold.

The WHO’s third book, People and Places of the Wolds, will be published on Tuesday 15th September.

Copies will be available to purchase from G.G. Granville’s in Wymeswold and Marcol garage in Burton on the Wolds from 15th. If you would like a copy posting to you then please email bobtrubs@indigogroup.co.uk – we can accept payment by cheque or PayPal.

As with the previous WHO publication, Discovering the Wolds, there are a variety of articles in roughly chronological order. However, in People and Places of the Wolds a great many of the contributions are about the people who were born or lived in this part of north Leicestershire.

Herein are the ‘great and the good’ and all types in between. They include a locally- famous schoolmaster-cum-antiquarian; two men who both collected plants and climbed mountains; a soldier involved in the Charge of the Light Brigade; a man transported to Australia; the ‘gentry’ who built Burton Hall; all the owners and occupiers of one of the manor farms; a Second World War airman who miraculously survived; a once-famous speedway rider; and a girl with a passion for riding horses.

Paperback, 245 x 175 mm, 113 + iv pages, 19 colour photos, 84 b&w photos; 2 maps,

£9.95 (plus £2.00 postage to UK addresses if applicable).

A Walk Around Wymeswold, written by Alec Moretti with superb drawings by Susan Jalland, was published as a booklet in 1994.  It’s now available as a digital publication, augmented with colour photographs mostly taken in 1987 and 1993.

Visit http://www.hoap.co.uk/who/index.htm for a free-to-download PDF and for other news from the Wolds Historical Organisation.

Latest news from the Wolds Historical Organisation, including photographs of Far Street decked out for King George V’s Silver Jubilee in 1935, and of a 1920s bus that ran between Wymeswold and Nottingham.  Those were the days!

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Visit http://www.hoap.co.uk/who/index.htm for the latest news from the Wolds Historical Organisation, including a Roman discovery in Wymeswold.

Nearly twenty years have elapsed since the Wolds Historical Organisation publication 2000 Years of the Wolds appeared in print.

It is now available to download as a pdf from the WHO website, with many illustrations now in colour.