Newspaper article on test rail crash July 1984
July 1984, Power News, the staff newspaper of the Central Electricity Generating Board. An article on CEGB's nuclear Flask development programme and the issue of Flask safety. The test rail crash, in the village of Old Dalby, was part of a £1.6m exercise in public reassurance, witnesses by VIPs, Mps, peers, trade unionists, and industrialists, policemen and protestors. It was also watched by millions of television viewers.
Power News
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July 1984
Hazel Kirk
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Excerpt from 1881 census for Dalby Hall Lodge
1881 British Census, Dalby Hall Lodge - Musson family
UK Census 1881
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1881
Hazel Kirk
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Excerpt from 1881 census for Old Hall
1881 British Census, Old Dalby Hall - Perkins family & William Underwood
UK Census 1881
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1881
Hazel Kirk
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Second of 2 articles on the history of the Old Hall
March 1970. Second of a two-part feature on The Old Hall, written by Marion Freeman-Attwood. It looks into the history of Old Dalby and The Hall over the centuries.
Marion Freeman-Atwood
Old Dalby Digital Archive
March 1970
Hazel Kirk
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First of 2 articles on the history of the Old Hall
February 1970. First of a two-part feature on The Old Hall, written by Marion Freeman-Attwood. It looks into the history of Old Dalby and The Hall over the centuries.
Marion Freeman-Attwood
Old Dalby Digital Archive
February 1970
Hazel Kirk
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Partial auction document for the Old Dalby Estate, c.1874-1880
Partial catalogue of auction for all property owned by the Old Dalby estate, comprising of all buildings, gardens, orchards, land (Arable & Pasture) etc. c1874-1880. Mentions act of parliament for the railway having just passed which was 1874 and the station soon to be built which was 1880.
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1874 - 1880
Liz Stenson
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Village Street Lighting Plan with map of village 1936 (?)
Village Street Lighting Plan 1936 (?)
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1936 (?)
Ann McKenna
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War Executive Committee Order 1918
War Agriculture Executive Committee.
Cultivation of Land Order, No. 2362.
February 7, 1918.
War Agriculture Executive Committee
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February 7th 1918
Ann McKenna
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Newspaper Article on Old Dalby 1961
"Article - Leicester Advertiser Friday January 06, 1961 on ""Our Towns and Villages"" No.204, Old Dalby (Second Article): ""Three Free Schools - Strangers 2d a week"". Images:
Mr & Mrs Ian Young, Home Farm.
Mr Sep Raine.
Old Dalby Vicarage.
The Church."
Leicester Advertiser
Old Dalby Digital Archive
January 6th 1961
Ann McKenna
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Newspaper article on Old Dalby 1960
"""Article - Leicester Advertiser Friday December 30, 1960 on """"Our Towns and Villages"""" No.204, Old Dalby: """"A Beautifully Placed And Friendly Village"""". Images:
Rev. C.J.R Daybell (Vicar of Dalby & Nether Broughton) & Rev. C.N Daybell (senior), now retired.
Mrs I Gasson of Hall Cottage (Church Organist).
Thomas Henry Fisher (The illustrator of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories).
Old Dalby Hall, the home of Mr & Mrs J.W. Birkin""
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Leicester Advertiser
Record office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland. DE2148
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December 30th 1960
Ann McKenna
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