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Timeline item 32: 2020 - In a display of the strong community spirit during the COVID-19 lockdown, villagers join Val Anderson's funeral procession on 3 June

Timeline item 30: 2005 - The church restoration is completed after locals raise a staggering £330,000! A calendar is one of the many fundraising ventures

Timeline item 29: 1999 - The millennium is celebrated with a new village sign, a group village photo and a torch-lit procession up Dalby Hill to the beacon on 31 December

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

Vale of Belvoir Test Match, played at "The Oval" Nether Broughton, Thursday June 21st 1951.
All Old veteran cricketers picked from 13 villages, Nottingham and Leicester. Age of both teams total 2,285 years.
SKINNER'S TEAM
Jack Skinner (Capt), Old…

Photos of Old Dalby Friendship Club taken in the 1990s

Selection of photos of members of the Friendship Club from 2008: Mary Siddaway, Ruby Freckingham, Marian Churchill, Maureen Goodman, Trish Howie Ann?, Bet Kenzie, Norah Parkes, Beryl Clare, Marjorie Kirk

Black and white photos of police and sergeants' messes at Depot in 1960s. Maureen's father, Insp. Samuel Kelly, is on the left in the top left photo

Photo of Womens' Institute fancy dress party 1970s showing
June Ware
Mavis Bamford
Eva Howe
Jenny Barnett
Joyce Walker
Eunice Tyers
Dorothy Marshall
Val Anderson
June Bednall
Margaret Bairstow
Sue Hodson
Dorothy Orson
Nora Jepson

A colour photo of members of the 'Thursday Group' from the 1970s including (pictured) Bob Hyslop and David Ayres