Rutland Local History & Record Society
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April 2024
Parish Boundary Project Update; Heritage Open Evening; South Luffenham Village Visit;
Alwalton Hall Hydraulic Ram; Henry Hay’s Silver Goblet; Handel’s Music at Exton Hall;
Arthur Henry Hollis’s Russian Medal; Obituary: Elizabeth Bryan; Rutland peruke-makers;
Book Reviews: Stukeley and Stamford Part II; Medieval Earthworks of Rutland’ Stamford
2018 – 2023; Horace Snary - Resolute Rutlander; Three Rutland Stories.
April 2023
Return to the Rutland Roman Villa Site in 2022; Volunteering on the Rutland Villa Site;
Training Volunteers on the Rutland Villa Site; Barrowden Village Visit; South Luffenham
Village Visit; Rutland Local History Walks; Society Honorary Memberships; Heritage Open
Evening; Rutland Multum Awards; The Hippisleys and Jacksons of Hambleton Manor
House; Obituary: Elaine and Dr Clive Jones; Obituary: Professor Alan Rogers; Obituary:
Peter Frank Tomalin; Book Review - Stamford's Industrial Past; Who was George
Mossendew?; An Unusual Envelope found on eBay; Tracing the Rutland Roots of Sir Henry
Royce; Settings Farm Hydraulic Ram Pump; Belton-born centenarian who liked his
'point o' yaale';
April 2022
Multum in Parvo – The Rutland Trojan Wars Roman Mosaic and the Rutland Ichthyosaur;
A Tankard and Medals for the Museum; Osmund Bartle Wordsworth in WWI; A Datestone
Puzzle; William Samuel Dalby, DCM; Wing Windmills, Millers and Bakers; Parish Boundary
Project Update; Obituaries of Tony Squires, Deborah Sawday and Jill Bourne; Golden
Jubilee Drinking Fountains; The New Website Interface; Rutland Book Reviews.
April 2021
Lockdown, Zoom, and Village Walks for All ; St George’s North Luffenham; Parish Boundary
Project Update; Thomas Cook Update ; Another Rutland Ploughing Trophy; Obituary: David
Joseph Carlin; Review: William Cecil's Survey of Stamford 1595 ; Emma and Mildred Ward
of Coles Lodge; The Occupants of Coles Lodge, Leighfield; Early Railways in Rutland; Arthur
William Cant DCM; Obituary: Paul Sharpling; Rutland Agricultural Society Show Medals; The
Yellow Earl; Obituary: Dr Vanessa Schwabe Doe; Book Reviews; Membership Subscriptions
and Renewals
April 2020
The Built Environment Awards; Barley Experiment; Honorary Membership for Elaine Jones;
The Riddle of the Rullors Stone; Membership Subscriptions and Renewals; Hannah
Burgess of Ridlington Park; Corrections to Rutland Record 39; Thomas Cook in Rutland;
Edith Weston Village Visit; Obituary - Michael Hinman; Anniversaries and Celebrations;
Obituary - Bryan Waites; Birthday Quiz Answers; Book Reviews; Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue
Update; W J W Stocks - Photographer;
April 2019
Oakham Castle Community Dig; Email contact with Society Members; Membership
Subscriptions and Renewal; The George Phillips and Tony Traylen Built Environment
Awards; The RLHRS Archaeology Team; Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue; Book Review: Secret
Rutland, Richard Westbrook Baker Book Launch, Oakham’s First Cinema; Project Emily -
Thor Missiles in Rutland; Life in a Caravan: Audrey Buxton; Market Overton Village Visit;
Stephen Blackburn, Clockmaker of Oakham; Obituaries– Leslie Emmerson, Christine Carlin
and Peter Lane.
April 2018
2018 Rutland Built Environment Awards; Honorary Membership for Tim Clough; Making a
Nomination for the Built Environment Awards; A New History of Rutland; The Parish Boundary
Project; Email contact with Society Members; Membership Subscriptions and Renewal; Joint
Meetings Programme; Obituary: The Reverend Brian Nicholls; Boule; Door Weight or
Apotropaios?; Four Rectors and a Patron; Alice That Was To Be; The British Newspaper Archive
Online; Fire at Lyddington; Bryan Waites Donates his Library; Uppingham Fatstock Show;
Cottesmore Village Visit; Book Launch - Australian Visitors; The 2018 Bryan Matthews Lecture;
Books: Uppingham Methodist Church 1817-2017; Defending Leicestershire and Rutland;
Leicestershire and Rutland Unusual and …
April 2017
Uppingham Captain’s War Medals; Rutland Built Environment Awards; Joyce Family of Morcott
Stonemasons; Tribute to Maureen Dodds; The last Heritage of Rutland Water; Dambusters at
Eyebrook; Bryan Matthews Lecture; Graham T Jackson, Church Architect; Morcott Village Visit;
Alice That Wasn’t to be… ; The Flying Scotsman; Email contact with Society Members;
Membership Subscriptions and Renewal; Joint Meetings Programme; BALH Local History
Award; Recent Publications
April 2016
The Rutland Built Environment Awards; Ryhall Village Visit; The Society’s
Executive Committee – Part 2; Email contact with Society Members; Membership
Subscriptions and Renewal; Joint Meetings Programme; Oakham Castle Project Progress;
Uppingham Races; Two Rutland Rectors and a Yorkshireman; Book Reviews; Lyddington
Manor History Society Book Launch; Life in Langham 1914-1919; Anglo-Saxons in
Leicestershire and Rutland; Vincent Wing (1619-68), Land Surveyor; Restoring the Record -
Rutland Lost Ways Research; Photographic Queries; The Society’s Archaeological Team.
April 2015
The Rutland Built Environment Awards 2014; Email contact and Membership
Subscriptions; Dr Mike Tillbrook – Honorary Membership; The Society’s Executive
Committee; Joint Meetings Programme; The Bryan Matthews Memorial Lecture;
Book Reviews; New Society Publication; Oakham Castle Update; Rutland County Museum
Website Catalogue; Ketton Village Visit; Robert Sterndale Bennett’s Home Guard Notes;
Major Robert Sterndale Bennett 1880-1963; Rutland Memorial Hospital; Rutland and the
Great War.
April 2014
The Rutland Built Environment Awards 2013, Email contact with Society members,
Membership Subscriptions, Joint Meetings Programme, Rutland Record author
commended, Book Reviews, War Memorials Project, Stamford Heritage Fair, Preston
Village Visit, Preston and the Civil War, A Mystery House, Stewart Ainsworth, Oakham
Floods in 1922, The Diary of Sarah Ogden, Website – Local Research and Resources,
Obituaries, Lyddington Manor History Society.
April 2013
George Phillips and Tony Traylen Awards 2012, Email contact with Society members,
Membership Subscriptions and Renewal, Joint Meetings Programme, Book Reviews, Cold
War Heritage in Rutland, John S Wacher, Thelma Clarke’s Visit to Rutland, Time Team at
Oakham Castle, The Westmoreland of Apethorpe Archive, Binding Rutland record, The
Lyddington Parish Bull, Rutland and The Great War, The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee,
Langham Village History Group.
April 2012
George Phillips and Tony Traylen Awards 2011, Email contact with Society members,
Membership Subscriptions, Joint Meetings Programme, Book Reviews, The Feet of Fines
for Rutland, David Henderson Tew, Warwick Metcalfe, William Henry Baker, A Rutland
Titanic Query?
April 2011
George Phillips and Tony Traylen Awards 2010; Email contact with Society members; Joint
Meetings Programme; Other Rutland Local History Groups; Book Reviews; Bradcroft - A
Hidden Place in Rutland; A Dangerous Stranger - Samuel Oates; Richard Westbrook Baker;
Obituaries: Alan McWhirr & Pamela Drinkall; Whissendine Village Visit
April 2010
Museum Opening Hours. George Phillips & Tony Traylen Awards 2009. New Reference
Library. Meetings Programme. Book Reviews. Lyddington History Society. Sir Thomas
Barker and The Order of Little Bedlam. Oakham Bowling Club. Lady Ann Harington Charity.
Ridlington Park Guided Historical Walk 2009.
April 2009
Exciting Archaeological Acquisitions at Rutland County Museum. Field Walking. Meetings
Programme. BALH. Langham Village History Group. Book Reviews. Briefs. Sugar Bakers,
and the Civil War. Thomas Barker’s Weather Records at Lyndon Hall. British History On-
line. The Last Journey of Richard 3rd Duke of York. The Cars and Motor Racing Exploits of
John Cecil Noel. Bomber Boys - Victor Wood DFC.
April 2008
Archaeological Fieldwalking - the ‘Miry Quarter’. Tribute to Tony Traylen 1927-2008. Society
Reference Library. Reprinting The Heritage of Rutland Water. BALH award for Rutland
Record Author. Society Website. Museum and Castle Exhibitions and Activities Programme
. Meetings Programme. The George Phillips Award. Book Reviews. Earthquakes in Rutland.
March 2007
Society Office. Society Secretary. Tributes to Olive Adams and George Somerset Finch.
Society Library. The Heritage of Rutland Water Project. Society Website. Museum and
Castle Exhibitions and Activities Programme. The George Phillips Award. Meetings
Programme. Book Reviews. Archaeology - Remarkable finds at Market Overton.
April 2006
The George Phillips Award. The Heritage of Rutland Water Project. Society Secretary.
Society Website. Museum and Castle Exhibitions and Activities Programme. Highlights
from the Year Past. The 2005 Brian Matthews Memorial Lecture. Visit to Drayton House.
The Prince Yuri Galitzine Prize. Village Visit Meeting at North Luffenham. Meetings
Programme. Book Reviews. Archaeology - Thistleton Secrets Revealed. Smallpox Research.
March 2005
March 2005-Museum Exhibition Programme 2005. Meetings Programme.
Society Publications. Society Library. Book Reviews - Francis Frith’s Uppingham - Francis
Frith’s Oakham - John Strecche Canon of Kenilworth - Now & Then: Rutland. The Heritage
of Rutland Water Project. The Prince Yuri Galitzine Prize. The George Phillips Award. The
Parish chest - St Botolph’s Church, Wardley.
August 2004
The Jack Hart Collection of Rutland Postcards. The Heritage of Rutland Water Project.
Rutland County Museum Development Programme. Museum Events Programme.
Meetings Programme. Meeting Reports. The Bryan Mathews Lecture.
Industrial Archaeology in Rutland. Society AGM. Society Library. Archaeology - Fieldwalking
the Romano-British Town at Thistleton - Thistleton Roman Mosaic at Corus, Corby -
Thistleton Roman Coffin. Fieldwalking the Ayston to Glaston Ridge.
January 2004
The Heritage of Rutland Water Project. Rutland County Museum Development
Programme. Museum Events Programme. Meetings Programme. Society Publications.
Environmental Group. Society Office and Library. Executive Committee. Meeting Reports.
Rutland Wall Paintings. Music at the Castle. Glaston Village Visit. Glaston. Ketton to
Manton Railway. The George Phillips Award. Rutland Village Studies Group.
Belton in Rutland History Society. The Battle of Quatre Bras, 1815.
July 2003
Society AGM. Rutland County Museum Development Programme. Museum Services
Manager. Meetings Programme. Awards for All Lottery Bid. Society publications. Events
Secretary and Publicity Officer Vacancies. Oral History Group. Archaeology -
Thistleton Romano - British Town - Miss Linford Award. Society Library. Rutland Magazine.
Rutland Bibliography. Society Website. Meeting Reports. Simon de Langham.
The George Phillips Award. The Bryan Matthews Lecture. Rutland Village Studies Group.
December 2002
Tribute to Prince Yuri Galitzine. Rutland County Museum Redevelopment. Retirement of Tim
Clough, Museum Curator. Awards for All Lottery Bid. Society Publications. Time in Rutland.
Ashwell Village Visit. Wall Paintings. Meetings Programme. Sources and Resources Group.
Development Group. Oral History Group. Archaeology - Fieldwalking the Ayston to Glaston
Ridgeway. Gift Aid. Village Studies Group. Uppingham Local History Group.
Executive Committee.
Summer 2002
Launching Time in Rutland; Publishing Rutland Record 21, Newsletter Editor Wanted; Future
Events; All Change at Rutland County Museum; Archaeology News; Chairman's View.
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