Category Archives: The Society

Programme

Visitors are welcome to join us - we ask for a donation of £4 per meeting.

Our summer meetings (June-August) are outings to local places of interest.   Please contact us if you would like to come along.

All other meetings start at 7:30pm and are held in the Memorial Hall, Anstey Lane, Thurcaston  LE7 7JA.   Please feel free to turn up on the day.

2024 Meetings

16 Jan 2024Leicester Cathedral Revealed
Mathew Morris		Read more
20 Feb 2024Dissolution - Monasteries to Mansions
Peter Liddle		Read more
19 Mar 2024The Rupert Street Riots
Ned Newitt
21 May 2024How to Read a House - Part 2: Interiors
Janet Spavold
18 Jun 2024Guided Walk - Quorn
16 Jul 2024Guided Walk - Looking Up in Leicester
Steve Bruce
20 Aug 2024Thurcaston Treasure Hunt
Jim Matthews
17 Sep 2024Villagers' Memories of Thurcaston & Cropston
15 Oct 2024Thurcaston & Cropston before the Enclosures
Peter Smith
19 Nov 2024Brief AGM followed by
My 25 Years at BBC Leicester
Dave Andrews

 

 

 

 

Archive

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15 March 2016

The Barrow Union Workhouse, speaker: Terry Sheppard

19 January 2016

The Cropston and Thurcaston Enclosures

Speaker: Peter Smith

Publications

Please contact us if you would like to buy any of the booklets below.  There will be a postage and packing charge, calculated for each order.

Dr Elias Travers DD, Rector of Thurcaston cum Cropston 1621-1641

by Margaret Greiff

The story of the first rector of the parish to be presented by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. At the time, the living of Thurcaston (which included Anstey and Cropston) was one of the richest in the county.

24 pages.

Price: £2.50 + postage & packing.

Parish Affairs: The financial dealings of Thurcaston Parish from the distant past to the present

by Brenda Hooper

How the Parish has provided local services by the collection of rates through the years. The booklet includes illustrations and reproductions of many original documents.

24 pages

Price: £2.50 + postage & packing.

Grave Matters: In memory of a few of the occupants of All Saints' Churchyard, Thurcaston

by Brenda Hooper

The book details the history of gravestones and masons and touches upon the wills, inventories, inquest and burial certificates of some of the residents of All Saints' graveyard.

28 pages.

Price: £2.50 + postage & packing.

 

The Story of John de Mershden, Rector of Thurcaston 1391-1425

by Margaret Greiff

This booklet relates the fascinating details so far discovered about the man whose body lies beneath the memorial brass in the chancel of All Saints Church, Thurcaston.

20 pages.

Price: £2.50 + postage & packing.

The Richard Hill School, 1715-2009

by Brenda Hooper

Describing the founding of the Richard Hill School in Thurcaston, this booklet uses documented evidence to follow its history from 1715 to the old building's final closure in 2009.

20 pages.

Price: £2.50 + postage & packing.

 

The Home Front: The Parish of Thurcaston and Cropston 1914-18 and 1939-45

by Brenda Hooper

How the men, women and children of our parish "did their bit" at home. Records from the Parish Council, primary school, WI and Memorial Hall Users Committee interwoven with some events and posters from the world wars.

38 pages.

Price: £3.00 + postage & packing.

The History of Church Bells: with particular reference to the bells of All Saints', Thurcaston

by Brenda Hooper

An informative, readable history of church bells including details of Thurcaston's bells and amusing anecdotes.

34 pages, with colour illustrations

Price: £3.00 + postage & packing.