Timeline item 09b: 1794 -Frances Bowater introduces Beethoven’s music to England when she hosts a performance of the String Trio in E flat. Her lavishly-renovated Old Dalby Hall is a centre for chamber music until the 1820s
Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (John Nichols, 1800) Vol. III pt. 1: East Goscote Hundred, pp. 242-258, describing Dalby on the Woulds (Old Dalby)