The Leake Historian No.1
Format-
A4. 14 pages
Cost £1.50p inc p&p
Contents: 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.
Illustrations: Front cover-East leake Hall from a drawing by John Haines
Back cover- 1921 Ordnance Survey map showing East Leake Hall.
The Leake Historian No.2
Format- A4.
14 pages
Cost £1-50p inc p&p
Contents: 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.
Illustrations: 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
The Leake Historian No.3
Format- A5. 26 pages
Cost £2.00p inc p&p
Contents: 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.
Illustrations: 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.
Page13-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.
The Leake Historian No.4
Format-
A5. 30 pages
Cost - £2.50 inc p&p
Contents: 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.
Illustrations: Cover - The Leslie Window, photograph
Page 6- Our Lady of all Angels Church, photograph
LEAKE HISTORIAN No.5
Format A5.-30
pages
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Contents: 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
Illustrations: Cover, The First Coop to Open in East Leake
Page 4- St Peters in the Rushes towards Rempstone
Page 6- The tomb of Rev. Robert Marsden
Page 12-Decendants tree of John Davys
Page 25- Stanford Hall
Page 30-Original cooperative shop Toad lane Rochdale 1844
Leake Historian No. 6
Format :- A5
31 pages
Cost :- £2.50 incl. p&p
Contents: 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
Illustrations: Cover,Captain Alexander Roulstone, MC.
Page 2-Rempstone Hall from the Front
Page 4-Mr Job Nightingale Derbyshire and his wife.
Page 11- Ridge and Furrow from the Sheepwash
Page 13- Plan showing the old open fields, meadows and common pastures
Reconstituted from the enclosure award
Page 29- Brookside School from the Playing fields
Page 30- Wooden Bungalows at Rushcliffe Grove
Leake Historian No. 7
Format
A5. 28 pages
ISSN 1357-1079
PRICE £2.50 inc p&p
Contents
1. An Evening Walk in Costock, 1980 by G.Harrison and T.Kerry
2. Kings Cottage, Costock and some of its occupiers, written 1982 by Isabell
Jefferies
3. St. Peter's in the Rushes- some thoughts by Charlie Firth, 1986
4. The Old Bakehouse, an update by Ian and Rachel Flynn
5. 'Inglenook', The Nook, written 1979 by Julie Climpson
6. Wass's Cottage, Brookside, 1979 by K.Hodgkinson
Illustrations: Cover, The Old Bakehouse,
Main Street
Page 5- small sketch map of Costock, showing area of walk.
Page 14- picture of Bakehouse
Page 15- location of Bakehouse on Main Street
Pages- 24,25 26&28 sketches of Wass's cottage
Page 27- Picture of Wass's Cottage
Leake Historian No.8
Format- A5. 52 pages
ISSN 1357-1079
Contents: John Bley- who was he ? by Ian & Rachel Flynn
The Norman boys, pupils at the John Bley endowed school by Tony Grundy.
Schools in East Leake before 1875 by Brenda Lewis
Whatever Happened to our Green.? by Tony Grundy & Harry Meadowcroft
“A Truly fine Englishman”, Oliver Redgate by Maureen Hurst
Steam Cultivation at Rempstone by William Buchanan
Illustrations: Front cover-Beeby engines at National Ploughing Championships 1998.
Page 8. Norman family tree.
Page 24. An overgrown Pinfold Green in the late 1940s.
Page 25. The Green in Millennia year 2000.
Page 26. The old Three Horse Shoes (taken from Potters History of East Leake 1903)
Page 27.Felsteds Old Forge in Hardy’s Yard.
Page 29.Ryholme Farmhouse looking towards Church spire.
Page 31. Sketch map of The Green in 1724.
Page 32.1830 Map of The Green and School Green
Page 33. 1910 Ordnance Survey map of The Green to School Green.
Page 34. Pinfold Green c1950
Page 35. Oliver Redgate’s Sisters
Page 37. Flt.Sub- Lieutenant Oliver Redgate
Page 38. Oliver Redgates DFC.
Page 39. Oliver Regates casualty card.
Page 45. John Tindale Angrave
Page 46. Beeby Plough at Villa Farm.
Page 48. Edward Beeby
Format- A4. 33 pages
ISSN - 1357-1079
Price- £4.50 inc p&p
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
Illustrations: Front Cover- Stanford on Soar Church ( in colour)
Inside Front Cover- Owen Wood 100th Birthday Picture ( in colour)
Page 6. Stanford Hall
Page 7. Monument to Caroline and Samuel Vere Dashwood.
Page 9. Monument to Charles Lewis Dashwood.
Page 11. Interior of Stanford Church at the time of the Dashwoods
Page 11. Decendants of Samuel Vere Dashwood tree.
Page 12. Stone Chimney of the Old Manor House.
Page 13. Building in Stanford and Wall plaque.
Page 15. Building in Stanford and wall plaque.
Page 15. 19thcentury buildings, Stanford.
Page 23. West Leake Rectory from the field 1948.
Page 24. West Leake Rectory North Front 1948.
Page 25. The Vicarage house, East Leake (Now the Old Rectory)
Page 28. East Leake Station 1966.
Page 29. Entrance to the station goods yard 1978.
Page 29. East Leake station goods shed 1983.
Page 31. East Leake Staion 1970
Page
32. Blocked up station entrance below the bridge on West Leake road
Some 19th Century Farming Families.
Format-A4 50 pages
ISBN 0 9525555 0 6
Cost £4-00p p&p included.
Contents: Angrave.
Kirk.
Woodroffe.
Marcer.
Burrows.
Wootton.
These are the main Farming Families in East Leake from the enclosure in1798 to the arrival of the Railway in 1898 Approx. However many other families are connected and there are three indexes at the end of the book.
Names, Places (in other counties) and East Leake.
Illustrations: Drawings of houses
Maps showing field holdings at the time of the enclosure.
Family trees.( these only show the main information for eachfamily, however the author of each section has all the details if anyone is interested in a particular family.)
The Manor of West Leake 1750-1900
Format-A4 59pages
ISBN No 0 9531710 1 9
Price £6-00 inc. p&p
Contents- The Bird Freehold Farm
William Patchet's Croft
William Place's Croft
West Leake Farm
Francis Repton's Farm
The Church as a Landowner
Thomas Clarke's Croft
Henry Leaper's Croft
William Platt's Croft
Bryan Wylde's Farm
George Chamberlain's Farm
John Cragg's Farm
Joseph Cross's Farm
Illustrations- Platt's Croft 1974
1759 Estate Map
1867 Sales Map
West Leake Maps Town Street1759,1867 &1901
West Leake Maps Outlying Farm Building Plans
Town End Farm 1927 from the Yard
Town End Farm 1997
Schoolside Farm 1997
Place's Croft 1974
West Leake House 1997
Church Side Farm 1997
Thomas Clarke's Croft 1997
Hardstaff's Farm 1997
Platt's Croft 1974
Scotland Farm 1997
White Hills Farm 1900
Leake Hills Farm 1930
Fox hills Farm 1997
There are also examples of the sales schedules, rental Surveys, relevant acts of parliament, family trees. Lists of field names.
Roads, Track-ways and Footpathsof East Leake.
Format- A5. 22 pages
ISBN 0953171 00 0
Price £2.25p p&p included
A revised and updated edition of a booklet originally published some years ago, it contains maps of the various areas of the village with historical information on the street names used. There is also a map of public rights of way and bridleways published by the parish council and included with their permission.
200 YEARS of BASKETMAKING in Ratcliffe -on-Soar, West Leake and
East Leake, Nottinghamshire
Format-A4. 50 pages
ISBN 0 9531710 2 4
Cost £6 inc.p&p
Contents: List of Illustrations
List of Family Trees
Introduction
Willow Cultivation
Basketmaking in Ratcliffe-on Soar and West Leake
Basketmaking in East Leake in the 19th Century
Basketmaking in East Leake 1900-1956
Within Living Memory
The Present Day
Bibliography
Appendix-Family Trees
Illustrations: Front cover-Painting entitled '˜Wickerwork'
End cover sketch map of area covered with some baskets
Inner back cover:-map of East Leake dated 1921
Various baskets, buildings and people
A History of East Leake
by Sidney Pell Potter M.A. Rector
Published 1903. This is a Photocopy reprint.
Format A5. 124 pages
ISBN --------
Contents:- Loose Threads of Early History
East Leake in Domesday Book
The Manor History
The History of the Rectory
Rectors, Assistant Clergy, Churchwardens and Clerks.
The Church
Church Books
Parish Finance and Charities
Local Courts and Hirings
Village Trades and Populations
The Enclosure
Persons of Note
Historical Notes and Local Stories
Hill, Road and Field Names
Travellers Notes on East Leake
Illustrations:- There are twenty five illustrations inc a parish map, the Church, inside the church, The Bley school, old Smithy house , the village street , Portraits of the Rev John Bateman, Richard Hawley Schoolmaster, Thos Cooper Angrave, Joseph Burton Parish Clerk. Etc
Two Millennia of Village Life
A History Of East Leake by Owen Wood Published for the East Leake Parish Council Centenary 1895-1995
Published 1999
Format: - Quarto? (larger than A5 and smaller than A4) 78 Pages
ISBN: - 0 9535103 0 1
Price: - £6.50 inc P&P
A Medieval Agricultural Community
Farming and Enclosure
Industries of East Leake
Modern Times
Illustrations:-The church, Maps , eight pages of pictures, many of them coloured.
St Marys Church East Leake, Its History From Saxon Times To The Present Day. By R Owen Wood.
Published by Parochial Church Council, St.Marys ,East Leake 1993.
Format A5, 22pages
Price :- £3-00 inc P&P
The Eleventh Century Saxon Church
The Early English Medieval Church
The Fifteenth Century Church
Plan of St.Marys Church
The Late 19thc Restoration
The Time Pieces
The Shawm- a Vamping Horn
The Bells of St.Mary’s
The Church of Leake
A Walk Around St.Marys Church , East Leake (exterior)
Format A5 44pages
ISBN 0-9537683-0-9
Price £5-75 p&p inc
Cuckoo Bush Inn
ISBN nil
Price £2.50 inc p&p
A thatcher's life in the villages of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. He talks of other thatchers, village people and amusing happenings as well as the houses he thatched, with some drawings
Days recalled of active service rendered during the First World War of 1914 to 1918 By Pte S.Bradbury Royal Sussex Regiment.
Published by Gotham Local History Society in 2000
Format A5 36pages
Price £2.50. inc p&p
A small diary kept during part of WW 1 and then written up in more detail when it was all over
The Somme
Palestine
RATCLIFFE - ON - SOAR
Tales of Ratcliffe - on - Soar
Format A4 87 pages
ISBN 1 904 102 12 3
Price £6 inc p&p
Contents:-
A Soar Valley Village.
Margaret's Tale.
An introduction to tied cottages,
Nellie's Tale.
Don's Tale- Life as a lock keeper.
Tom's Tale-Tom discusses early life in Ratcliffe.
David Osbourne'Tale of growing up in a farming family.
The life of Michael in the same family
Margaret Osbourne's Love Story.
Reg Newsome's Tale-A typical schoolboy of the village.
Some Tales of mischief.
Kath's Tale-An early migrant to the village of Ratcliff
Illustrations:-
Map of the village circa 1914
Yew Tree Cottage
Main Street
Grave of Elizabeth Orme
Ratcliffe Church Organ
Holy Trinity Church interior- 1930s
Mrs Akers with Granddaughter
The Village School 2002 & 1910
Railway Row
Mrs Powell
Sutton Bonington Hall
Redhill Lock with Horsedrawn Barges C1910
Don Pengelly at Redhill
Redhill Lock 2002
Narrow Boats leaving Ratcliffe Lock
Ratcliffe Village school children 1914
Victoria Cottage Main Street
Ratcliffe on Soar W. I. 1910
Flooding near village School
Riverside Farm c 1950s
Redhill Farm 1970s
Lincoln Reds at Riverside Farm
Including many other illustrations
of people and places connected with the articles
A History of Kingston on Soar up to the 19th Century
by Brian W. Smith
Size –A5 60 Pages
Published 1988
Contents- Introduction
Early History
Medieval Kingston
The Babingtons and the Manor
The Parish Church, Kingston’s Ancient Chapelry
The Babington Monument
Agriculture
Kingston in the 18th Century
Illustrations- Drawings of Cremation Urns found at Kingston-on –Soar
Picture of Kingston’s Saxon Pots
13th Century land document
Picture of Duke of Buckingham [small]
Floor stone in Ratcliffe Church to Elizabeth Ormond, 1st wife of Sir Anthony Babington Thomas Babington the father of Sir Anthony Babington, and his wife Editha Fitzherbert, Ashover Church, Derbys.
Babington Family Tree. [part]
Facsimile of Anthony Babington’s signature & seal from a document dated 1585
Sketch map of supposed site of Babington Manor House
Map showing Kingston Field Names 1796
Sketch of Kingston Chapel by Edward Blore, early 19th century
Picture Babington Monument
The Old Church interior about 1890 showing Babington Chantry.
Ridge and Furrow in Kingston
Harvesting pictures
Firs Farm 1902
Church Farm 1900
The Bungalow, Kegworth road 1969
The Rev. John Berridge, Vicar of Everton, Bedfordshire, born Kingston on Soar 1716
Cover shows part of Chapman’s Map of Nottinghamshire 1774
Kingston –on-Soar Further Chapters in the History of an Estate Village
By Brain W. Smith
Size –A5 109 pages
1st printing 1990 2nd printing 1998
ISBN 0 9516197 1 3
Price- 7.00 inc.U K. p&p
Contents- Introduction
The Strutt Family
Kingston in the early 19th Century
The Parish Church
Kingston Hall
Changes in the Village 1845 and afterwards
Lady Belpers School
The Gypsum Mine &Mineral Railway
The Midland Agricultural & Dairy College
Kingston Show
Village and Estate Life
Illustrations-Jedediah Strutt 1726-1797
William Strutt
Edward Strutt Esq.
Emily, Lady Belper
Henry Strutt 2nd Baron Belper
Algernon Henry Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper
The Right Hon.Alexander Ronald Strutt, 4th Baron Belper
Map of Kingston 1815
Long Row Cottages about 1920
Kingston Village about 1920
Kingston Church 1881Postcard of St. Winifreds Church 1905Layout of 1832 Church and the Modern Building
Kingston Hall 1905
The Drawing Room, Kingston Hall 1905
Lord Belpers Car, Stable Courtyard, Kingston Hall 1905
The Household Staff at Kingston Hall 1910
Some of the Hall Staff 1950s
Country Dancing, Lady Belper’s School, c 1910
Sketch Plan of the Village
Lady Belper presenting New Testaments at the school, Coronation year 1953.
Lady Belper’ School 1955
Kingston Gypsum Mine c 1895s
[Engine], Lady Margaret.
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Rabbit Shoot for Gypsum Mine customers, 1897
The Works and Train of Waggons 1925
Lady Angela [engine]
Mine Workers .Kingston Gypsum Mine 1932
Kingston Dairy Institute 1900
Stilton CheeseMaking in the Dairy c.1900
Kingston Dairy College Staffc.1902
Advert for Kingston Cheese Aparatus
Potato Pickers Kingston Fields Farm 1942
Kingston Show 1930s
The Donkey Race at an early show
Celebration Tent with members of the Strutt family
Prime Minister, the right Hon. Harold Mcmillan, presenting a winning trophy to Jim Unwin 1963
Edwin Baxter with ‘Taffy’ Manor Farm 1912
Lord Belper and his 77-year-old Loader Mr.David Cox. 1933
The Village Shop (later Post Office) about 1925
Hauling Timber on West Leake Lane about 1915
The Gaskin Family, Long Row Cottages 1910
Wartime Kingston, The Green and Pump c.1940`
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Perspectives of Kingston-on-Soar Oral History in a South Notts Village
By Brian & Veronika Smith
Size –A4 91 Pages
ISBN- 1-904102-24-7
Printed 2002
Price:- 8.00 inc U K.p&p
1. Kingston Hall
2. Lady Belper’s School
3. Kingston Gypsum Mine
4. The Gypsum Railway
5. Farming and Agriculture
6. Shooting Days
7. The Midland Agricultural & Dairy College
8. The Fine Art Company
9. Skating on the Lake
10. World War 11 Years
11. Kingston Show
12. Village Shops & Trades
13. Village Life
14. Washdays
15. Floods
16. Social Life
17. Down by the Riverside
Interviewees
Acknowledgements
1921 Ordnance Survey Map
Kingston Hall
Lord & Lady Belper with Lavinia and Rupert 1926
Nanny Dolman (nee Smith) and Peter Strutt, Kingston Hall 1926
Carol & John Taylor in Lady Belper’s clothes, Firs Farm, c1950
Lady Angela with her sons Peter and Rupert
Jean Allen & Muriel Brownlow, Kingston, 1928
Staff Christmas Party, 1948
Master Rupert Strutt,with groom Tommy Skinner,in the back park, Kingston, 1933
The Greek Temple, Kingston Hall grounds
Hunt Meet at Kingston Hall-1930s
The Lodge-Kingston Hall
Work on the Lodge Gates- 1906
Lady Belper’s School, Kingston, 1914
Outdoor lesson in Kingston Park, 1951
Lady Belper’s School Football Team, 1956
Handicraft Lesson, 1951
“All in together girls” –Skipping at school 1951
Final year at Kingston School-1966
Lady Belper’s School-1928
Kingston Gypsum Mine,1956
The Mine and Mill,c1905
Mine workers,c1931- George Smith in center
Kingston Mine in 1983
Demolition of Works, July 1986
Lady Angela crossing Gotham Road towards Kingston Mine, 1962 [train]
Lady Angela shunting at Kingston Mine, August 1955
Lady Angela at Kingston Mine- 1970 (Gerald North on footplate.)
RCTS Kingston Gypsum Tour, Kegworth Siding 10th September 1960
Lady Angela leaving Kingston Mine-May 1971
Steam ploughing on Kingston Fields Farm
Outside Manor Farm- 1940s
Various other pictures of ploughs and tractors
November Shoot, Kingston-1933
Albert Baxter- Gamekeeper
Pheasant Shoot-early 1960s
Algernon Henry.3rd Earl Belper- November shoot 1933
Early 60s shoot. Under- keeper Shilton with stick
Beaters & dogs take a break
Lord and Lady Belper stag hunting in Scotland
Ronald’s two first Stags, Glenkingie 1926
Midland Agricultural and Dairy Institute
Ellen Smith 1905
Nancy Speed
The Hostel on West Leake Lane, about 1907
MADC group Kingston –1925
MADC hockey Club 1926
Stilton Cheese-making Room at Kingston
Cheese-making Room- Kingston c1925
Former Dairy College buildings- showing site of Fine Art Company to right
Items made by Fine Art Company
Kingston Hall Lake
The Green&cottages-1940
Rupert Strutt & Lady Belper- 1939
Kingston Womens Institute
Kingston Bridge 1940s
Joan Donnell- 1941
Lady Belper and Peter and Lavinia Strutt
Kingston Show with Hall and Terrace- 1930
The Show in 1953
Tom and Kath Garner at the Show- 1959
Winner display of produce- 1934 Show
PM Harold Macmillan & Show Sec. Norman Beeby- 1963
Pat Smyth at the 1963 Show
Kingston Show –1937
Champion Shire Horse-1963
Parade in Main Ring from the terrace 1863
Kingston Post Office
Four generations of Hendersons outside Kingston shop WW11
Postmistress- Jennifer Hutchinson, just before closure-November 1988
Charles Temple back of Long Row Cottages-1930
Mrs Lizzie Toms –Long Row Cottages
Mrs Emma temple with Harry Walster, 1930
Village scene 1930
Kegworth Station- September 1955
Norah &Emma Temple, Annie Walster and young Ron Temple-Long Row 1930
Floods in Kingston Park –1932
Flood on Station Road-1915
Charles Temple, back of Long Roe Cottages-1930s
Floods Kingston Village-1930s (Henry Baxter with shovel.)
Kingston Park floods- 1932
Kingston Women’s Institute Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations- Village Hall, 1971
Kingston Players when they appeared in the first County Festival Final, March 1930
Members of Kingston Drama Society-early 1950s
Women’s Institute Tea in Village Hall-1954
Women’s Institute members playing whist- Kingston Hall,1954
Lady Angela’s Daffodil party
Riverside Bungalows, Kingston-c1935
Punt fight on River Soar-c1950
Nottingham Radio & Electrical Social Club outing at Riverside Bungalows, Kingston-late 1940s
30 pictures of interviewees.