Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum

North Street, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1HU
 
 
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Past and Present Number 10

Dolly Shepherd - Edwardian Lady Parchutist

Willesley Memories 1896-1902

The Victorians: Abney-Hastings

Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, 1707-1791

Ashby's Early Theatricals

Surgeons and Soapboilers; a Brief Study of the Burial Registers of Ashby de la Zouch

"Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" The 4th Marquis of Hastings

The Hare and Hounds in 1943

The Gentleman Gypsy, a Journey through Ashby and Lount

 

 

Past issues of Past and Present

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Number 1

Ashby Telephone Exchange

Ashby Local Families: The Cutters

North Street Memories

The Fall of the Ivanhoe Baths

The Origins of Primitive Methodism in Ashby

The Woodland Trust - Willesley Wood

John Ludlum Bullen

Poetry

The Restaurateur's Appeal

Advent in Market Street

Sources and Resources

The County Record Office

From the Archives

Publications on Ashby de la Zouch

Number 2

Memories

The Turk's Head

An Export to Canada?

Ashby Cottage Hospital

Rene Webster's Ashby

B.A.N.G. a brief history

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

Peter Hastings

Poetry: The Shepherd's Lament

From the Archives

Number 3

A Childhood in Lount and Staunton Harold

Dorothy Watson's Staunton Harold 'Memories of Yesteryear'

'The Old Order Changeth'  Packington Church Services in 1900

The Venture Theatre

Vote for Joe

Hyacinthe de Serre, Napoleonic Prisoner of War

Poetry: The Cemetery, Ashby-de-la-Zouch

From the Archives

 
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  Number 4

Who put the Market in Market Street

Witan Archaeology

Local History Society Scores

Third Impressions are Best!

Mayor's Tales

'Voted Prettiest Girl in Ashby'

Market Street

Fancy a Drink?

A Football Fatality in Ashby

Book Review

Number 5

George Eckersley - Schoolmaster

The Ivanhoe

Some musings of an émigré teacher

Fining John Smith

The Swepstone Ministry

Book Review

From the Archives

Number 6

Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loundon

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loundon visits Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Memories of Ashby Station

The Callis Bridge

Escape from Donington Hall?

The Courts and Yards on the South side of Market Street 1841-1901

Video Review

 
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Number 7

Ashby as I remember it

Memories of Range Road

Harry Leawood and Ashby Boys' Grammar School

Grace Dieu Priory

Memories of Staff at Ashby Grammar School

Ashby Great Park

Railway Bylines

Sir Joseph Hood

A Pot Pourri of Memories

Number 8

Moira Road and the POW Camp

Wood Street, 1930

Watch this Space!

On the Way to School

Lord Donington Chastises his Miners

Sounds Familiar?

A Centenary Celebration

Two Old Boarding Codgers

Charles William Cook

The Joyces - a Sporting Family

Bookshelf

Number 9

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum, A Quarter of a Century of Progress

A Few Anecdotes Apertaining to Police Constable 206 Sydney Pearson Smith, Stationed at Ashby 1938-1944

Ashby's Inns, Pubs and Alehouses

Burton Brewery Company at Ashby-de-la-Zouch

United Biscuits at Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby Round Table at 50

17th Century Summary Justice

Pupil Teachers in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 1905 to 1907

Teacher Training in Ashby in 1905

The "Vaccies" - 1939

Richard Austin Smithard, 3 July 1929 - 18 February 2007

Bookshelf

Ashby Local History Society

What's On at the Museum

 
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