Righteous House, a Pentecostal Church group, are holding services in the main room at the old National School on Sunday mornings. It is nice to see the schoolroom being used. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend their services; details can be found on their website:.
Discover how the project is rescuing and preserving the War Memorials that are located inside churches and buildings that would otherwise be lost due to the demolition or change of use of those buildings.
The Leicestershire & Rutland Heritage Forum (LRHF) is for all museums and heritage organisations covering the city and county of Leicester. It has over 40 member organisations (including the Belgrave Heritage Trust), that are run mainly by volunteers who are passionate about preserving, researching and displaying the heritage of their community and sharing it with the world.
The Belgrave Heritage Trust is registered as a charity at the Charity Commission. The Commission regulates and advises charities on how they are run, and the Trustees are legally obliged to submit annual reports to the commission.
The link will take you directly to the Trust’s details at the commission:
The definitive book for anyone who is interested in the history, geology and symbolism of the slate headstones found in many of the churchyards in Leicester, Leicestershire and some of the adjacent counties is David Lea’s “Swithland Slate Headstones“, which includes headstones in St. Peter’s churchyard. Not only is it a comprehensive source of information, illustrated with high quality images, it is also available as a free download from the “Heart of Albion Press” at the link above.
The PDF can be downloaded for free, but please note it’s over 80Mbytes so maybe slow on less-than-ideal web connections.
An article on Charnwood slate gravestones in Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire (which suggests these are evidence of ‘return loads’ along trade routes) is available on the same webpage.
Also available on the same website is Alex Hando’s extended essay “Cleft from the Hills” which explains why the slate industry of Blaenau Ffestiniog was more successful than the Charnwood Forest quarries.
Local Interest Books
A selection of pre-owned books about different aspects of Leicester is available at the Trust’s display room in the “Old Laundry” at Belgrave Hall, priced £5 each.
The display room is open every Wednesday from 11 am to 4 pm from April to September, and also on the first full week-end of each month between April and September.
Payments can be made by card or cash.
In our ‘Map images’ resource you can access and view all the maps we have scanned as high-resolution, colour, zoomable images. The maps date between the 1560s and 1970s and relate primarily to Scotland. We also have maps of areas beyond Scotland, including maps of England and Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, and Jamaica.
Discover History As It Happened. Access hundreds of historic newspapers from all over Britain and Ireland.
The Record Office exists to preserve and provide access to a wide range of resources which can be used to research the history and culture of Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
The Belgrave Hall Conservation Area Society is an independent group dedicated to retaining the past, maintaining the present and securing the future of the historic Belgrave Hall area of Leicester.
