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Hand drawn map of the Army Depot by Chris Chellis, c.1950

A written account of his memories of 1950s Queensway and the Army Depot by Chris Chellis

Timeline item 01: c863 - A Viking settlement is built near the lake; it becomes part of the Danelaw

A Grocer's receipt dated Oct 13th 1939 for FW Heafford and sons, Nether Broughton

Timeline item 07: 1628 - The first Duke of Buckingham buys the estate. Oliver Cromwell seizes it but it is returned to the second Duke on the restoration of Charles II

A ration book for motor fuel from 1957

Photo of working shire horses taken in what is now Old Dalby c.1930s - Alfred William Burrows Greaves and son, Ronald Greaves, close to the modern Queensway

Timeline item 18: c1935 - Thomas Henry Fisher, the illustrator of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories, settles in the village

News article on Old Dalby village from 1970s by Jill Goodman

Timeline item 21: c1957 - Major Blount, C J Phillips's nephew and heir, vacates the hall. The estate is divided into lots and sold, thus ending 780 years of the Manor of Old Dalby