Blogs

    The Trustees would like to wish our members and all of our visitors to Belgrave Hall, Cross Corners or to the website a happy New Year. The “diary

To end our 2024 series of talks at Cross Corners, we held our Christmas party for our members and their partners, plus invited guests. After the opening greeting by Nick,

The Trustees were given permission to  lay a wreath at the 1st World War memorial. Two wreaths were laid this year – one on behalf of the Trust, and one

Take a walk round St Peter’s churchyard. Today it is just a rather tired-looking expanse of grass, dotted with headstones. But our speaker for November, our own Andrew Warren, showed

Following his talk on “Starting your family tree” at our June talk at Cross Corners, a conversation with Peter and his wife Ann (nee Thornton) led to the photographs, below,

On the 8th October we welcomed back to Cross Corners John Martin-Jones, who entertained us last year with his fascinating  and entertaining talk on the subject of “A week in

On the weekend of 14th & 15th September 2024 Belgrave Hall held a Food Fair and the Trust’s display in the Heritage room was open on both days. We had

In 2023 our “Weddings in Belgrave” display in the Heritage room at Belgrave Hall proved to be very popular. For 2024 we have revised and extended the display to include

  The subject for June’s talk was “Starting your family tree”, presented by Peter Cousins. Peter is the Chairman of “The Greater Wigston Historical Society” and a very experienced family