Village Timeline item 26: 1984
Timeline item 26: 1984 - On 17 July, the stability of a nuclear flask is demonstrated in a simulated train crash at the Old Dalby test track. Also in 1984, the parish council purchases the old school and establishes the village hall committee to ensure the hall is used for the benefit of the community
Nigel Tout
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1984
Nigel Tout
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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
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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
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February 1970
Hazel Kirk
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Village Timeline item 05: 1543
Timeline item 05: 1543 - Andrew Noel buys the estate from the King after dissolution and builds his hall on former Knights Hospitaller land. He and his wife are buried in the parish church.
Margaret Bairstow
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1543
Margaret Bairstow
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Village timeline item 16: 1914-1918
Timeline item 16: 1914-1918 - Eleven village men are killed while serving in the First World War. A commemorative plaque is placed in the church; the parish presents all local soldiers with cups
Margaret Bairstow
Old Dalby Digital Archive
1914-1918
Margaret Bairstow
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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
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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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Lucy Loseby, White Cottage 1970s
Lucy Loseby (aunt to Hazel Kirk, nee Greaves) outside the family home, White Cottage, Chapel Lane, in the 1970s.
Kirk/Greaves family
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1970s
Hazel Kirk
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Mr and Mrs R Greaves 1972
Mr & Mrs Greaves (Ronald & Dorothy) at an event in the village hall, c1972.
Kirk/Greaves family
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1972
Hazel KIrk
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Junior exhibitors at the Horticultural Show, 1966
Junior exhibitors at the local Horticultural Show in 1966. Hazel and Ian Greaves (2nd/3rd left, front row)
Kirk/Greaves family
Hazel Kirk
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1966
Hazel Kirk
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