Visit to Kibworth Mill

14th August 2010

Despite the weather, LIHS members enjoyed a fascinating visit to Kibworth Windmill and a convivial lunch at the Coach and Horses. Many thanks to David Holmes for organising the mill visit.

LIHS member Bill Pemberton has posted some of his excellent photographs of the visit here.

PLEASE NOTE

CROMFORD CANAL WALK CANCELLED

Due to the fact that Wendy will be attending the AIA conference to collect the Newsletter award, the walk on 5th September has been cancelled. However, for those who would like to walk the Cromford Canal a walk is being organised by the Friends of the Cromford Canal on 11th September. Details here.

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Industrial Heritage

We have added some new webpages with images of some of Leicester's industrial heritage - some of which won't be around for much longer.

To view click here

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New Book

John Moss of Otterspool, Railway Engineer

by Graham Trust

Read more here

East Midlands Industrial Heritage Day School

The hosiery, lace and cotton industries of the East Midlands

Thursday November 11th, 2010

Long Eaton Art Room, Granville Avenue,
LONG EATON, Derbyshire, NG10 4HD

More information here

NEWSLETTER AWARD

We are delighted to announce that the LIHS Newsletter for Spring 2010 has won the AIA award for Best Newsletter.

This is the second time our newsletter has won this prestigious award and the editor would like to thank all contributors for their part in making this possible. The judges particularly commented on the use of colour and the wider news content than was true for most of the other entries.

Obviously we want to keep up this standard so please don't forget to send in your contributions to the next Newsletter as soon as possible and definitely BEFORE August 13th.

NEXT NEWSLETTER

Summer 2010

This will appear at the end of August.

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Heritage Day May 2010

A successful Heritage Day (EMIAC 79) was enjoyed on Saturday 22nd May. Many thanks to all those who helped in various ways to make this a success.

Above: Heritage Day participants visiting the Horse Gin on Gorse Field, Swannington

News of the next EMIAC can be found here.

NEDIAS Journal No 3

The North East Derbyshire Industrial Archaeology Society have just published Volume 3 of their NEDIAS Journal. This edition particularly features articles on the history of the Staveley industries and works site, with the first 70 pages of this almost 100 page Journal devoted to the subject.

More details and order form here

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NEW LIHS FILM

Wendy Freer has just completed a new film on Framework Knitting featuring Martin Green, framework knitter of Kirby Muxloe. Click HERE for further details and to see the film.

British Pathe Needs Your Help

There is a massive project underway at the moment to organise British Pathe's film archive now that it is open to the public at www.britishpathe.com

The project leader is building an online archive of films of Leicestershire. Currently this contains 75 videos and you can see them for free by clicking the link at the end of this item. He is looking for help from Leicestershire historians and others to identify more films in the British Pathe collection which could be added to the Leicestershire archive. If you would like more information, please contact Wendy Freer.

Click here to go to Leicestershire Archive.

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I A Recordings

If you don't already know about this voluntary organisation it is worth having a look at their website. They make industrial history films and are particularly keen to record the methods and processes of industries before they disappear. Founded in 1982 and working all over the country they have filmed several Leicestershire industrial sites including Donisthorpe Colliery.

Website: I A Recordings