Publications
The following soft cover publications are all published by the East Leake and District Local History Society and are available by post from:
Mrs M.C. Hurst
6 Poplar Avenue
East Leake
Loughborough
Leics. LE12 6QB
Or from their bookstall, at meetings on the third Wednesday of the month from September to April, held in the St. Mary's Hall opposite St. Marys' Church East Leake at 7-30pm
Format- A4. 14 pages
- The Gardener's Cottage. (oral history).
- East and West Leake in Court (1731-1765).
- Nos. 10-12 Main Street, East Leake.
- Some interesting Entries from Leake Parish Registers.
- The Life of a Sexton Blacksmith (Normanton on Soar).
- The Treaty of Leake.
- Ideas about Medieval Leake.
- Front cover-East leake Hall from a drawing by John Haines
- Back cover- 1921 Ordnance Survey map showing East Leake Hall.
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Format- A4. 14 pages
- Beer and Skittles- East Leake Pubs in the 19th Century.
- The Jolly Little Archive at Stanford Hall.
- Early History of St.Peter- in- the- Rushes.
- From the Burial Registers of St.Peters.
- A snap shot of Leake 100 Years Ago from White's directory.
- East Leake's Automatic Telephone Exchange.
- Front cover - Stanford Hall, from a drawing by Throsby, 1791
- Back cover - Part of an undated Ordnance Survey map (believed to be mid19th century) with St. Peter's-in-the-Rushes marked as Rempstone old Church Yard
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Format- A5. 26 pages
- Schools in East Leake 1851-1901.
- West Leake- the Mother Church.
- Notes on Stanford Marriages.
- East Leake and the First World War 1914-1919.
- War Memorials
- The Reverend Theophilus Henry Hastings-Rector of Great Leake and Little Leake 1795-1804.
- Belton House.
- The Leakes.
- Cover - The Bley School.Copy of a photograph in A History of East Leake by Rev.S.P.Potter 1903
- Page 4 - Drawing of Church schoolroom 1855 by Denis Hind
Photograph of The Board School c1877. - Page 13 - Drawing of St.Helena's Church West Leake by David Clarke.
- Page 17 - East Leake War Memorial.
- Page 23 - Belton House .formerly The Cottage, Main St East Leake 1908.
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Format- A5. 30 pages
- The Post- War Revival of Catholicism in East Leake.
- Major- General Robert Walter Dickson Leslie (1883-1957) and the Leslie Window in Saint Marys' Church East Leake.
- Transcription of Church Records in East Leake Benefice.
- Princess Diana and the Mansfield Family of West Leake.
- Enoch Watson - A late 17th Century Grocer.
- The Sheep- Stealers and Henry Grundy.
- Cover - The Leslie Window, photograph
- Page 6- Our Lady of all Angels Church, photograph
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Format A5.-30 pages
- Robert Marsden B.D. Rector of Rempstone 1702-1748
- John Davys, Rector of East and West Leake 1667-1717
- 1881 Census Returns 'Strays'
- The Treaty of Leake 1318- The Peace of the Roses
- The Cooperative Collage at Stanford Hall
- Cover, The First Coop to Open in East Leake
- St Peters in the Rushes towards Rempstone
- The tomb of Rev. Robert Marsden
- Decendants tree of John Davys
- Stanford Hall
- Original cooperative shop Toad lane Rochdale 1844
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Format :- A5 31 pages
- The Story of Rempstone Hall
- Great Changes,Enclosure of East Leake
- Joyce's Hall and its links with John Davys 1667-1717
- Perspectives on the Basketmaking Project
- Captain Alexander Roulstone MC., 1890-1905
- Memories of East Leake-Rushcliffe Bungalows and Brookside School
- Cover,Captain Alexander Roulstone, MC.
- Rempstone Hall from the Front.
- Mr Job Nightingale Derbyshire and his wife.
- Ridge and Furrow from the Sheepwash
- Plan showing the old open fields, meadows and common pastures. Reconstituted from the enclosure award.
- Brookside School from the Playing fields.
- Wooden Bungalows at Rushcliffe Grove.
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Format A5. 28 pages
ISSN 1357-1079
- An Evening Walk in Costock, 1980 by G.Harrison and T.Kerry
- Kings Cottage, Costock and some of its occupiers, written 1982 by Isabell Jefferies
- St. Peter's in the Rushes- some thoughts by Charlie Firth, 1986
- The Old Bakehouse, an update by Ian and Rachel Flynn
- 'Inglenook', The Nook, written 1979 by Julie Climpson
- Wass's Cottage, Brookside, 1979 by K.Hodgkinson
- Cover, The Old Bakehouse, Main Street
- Small sketch map of Costock, showing area of walk.
- Picture of Bakehouse
- Location of Bakehouse on Main Street
- Four sketches of Wass's cottage
- Picture of Wass's Cottage
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Format - A5. 52 pages
ISSN 1357-1079
- John Bley- who was he ? Ian & Rachel Flynn
- The Norman boys, pupils at the John Bley endowed school - Tony Grundy.
- Schools in East Leake before 1875 - Brenda Lewis
- Whatever Happened to our Green? - Tony Grundy & Harry Meadowcroft
- “A Truly fine Englishman”, Oliver Redgate - Maureen Hurst
- Steam Cultivation at Rempstone - William Buchanan
- Front cover - Beeby engines at National Ploughing Championships 1998.
- John Bley Endowed free school
- Norman family tree.
- An overgrown Pinfold Green in the late 1940s.
- The Green in Millennia year 2000.
- The old Three Horse Shoes (taken from Potters History of East Leake 1903)
- Felsteds Old Forge in Hardy’s Yard.
- Ryholme Farmhouse looking towards Church spire.
- Sketch map of The Green in 1724.
- 1830 Map of The Green and School Green
- 1910 Ordnance Survey map of The Green to School Green.
- Pinfold Green c1950
- Oliver Redgate’s Sisters
- Flt.Sub- Lieutenant Oliver Redgate
- Oliver Redgates DFC.
- Oliver Regates casualty card.
- John Tindale Angrave
- Beeby Plough at Villa Farm.
- Edward Beeby
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Format - A4. 33 pages with spiral binding
ISSN - 1357-1079
- Editorial
- An update on John Bley by Ian and Rachel Flynn
- The Dashwoods of Stanford on Soar by Bill Buchanan
- A School Project on Stanford on Soar by Mary Parrott
- Stanford on Soar Protestation Returns, and Hearth Tax by Maureen Hurst
- The Leke (Leeke) Family by Steven Leeke
- The Glebe Terriers of East and West Leake by Judith Johnstone
- Memories of an East Leake Station Porter by Charlie Firth
- Front Cover - Stanford on Soar Church ( in colour)
- Inside Front Cover - Owen Wood 100th Birthday Picture ( in colour)
- Stanford Hall
- Monument to Caroline and Samuel Vere Dashwood.
- Monument to Charles Lewis Dashwood.
- Interior of Stanford Church at the time of the Dashwoods
- Decendants of Samuel Vere Dashwood tree.
- Stone Chimney of the Old Manor House.
- Building in Stanford and Wall plaque.
- Building in Stanford and wall plaque.
- 19thcentury buildings, Stanford.
- West Leake Rectory from the field 1948.
- West Leake Rectory North Front 1948.
- The Vicarage house, East Leake (Now the Old Rectory)
- East Leake Station 1966.
- Entrance to the station goods yard 1978.
- East Leake station goods shed 1983.
- East Leake Staion 1970
- Blocked up station entrance below the bridge on West Leake road
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Format-A5.38pages
ISSN 1357 107
- The English Civil War Skirmish at Costock - Keith Raynor
- The Hallams in Tasmania - Bill Buchanan
- Basketmaking Industry in East Leake - Grace Gibson
- Memories of my Childhood - Mary Wheelhouse
- History of Goulds Barn - Charlie Firth
- The West Gallery in East Leake Church - Peter Foden
- Civil War Skirmish- Cover in colour
- Sketch plan of Civil War skirmish site at Costock
- Drawing of a skirmish
- The A60 from Rempstone to Costock.The churchyard on the left.
- Foundation stone on the new Methodist Chapel in Glenorchy
- Peeling the rods
- Basketmakers at work
- The original Basketmaking Book
- Ernest & Mary Wheelhouse
- Goulds Barn about 1930
- Goulds Barn facing south
- The Shawm hanging in St. Mary's 1980
- The Sheepwash Brook, East Leake in the 1930s
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