Court of Pie Powder
The Court of Pie Powder was a special court which sat in medieval times during fairs and markets. The purpose of the court was to settle disputes between merchants and customers […]
The Court of Pie Powder was a special court which sat in medieval times during fairs and markets. The purpose of the court was to settle disputes between merchants and customers […]
The 1901 census is divided into two districts and was taken on the night of 31st March 1901. CENSUS 1901 The enumerator for this part of the census was Mr.William […]
The 1881 census can be accessed in two ways. The Excel version downloads and can be edited and searched. The PDF version appears when clicked and is “read only” and […]
The 1891 Census for England was taken on the night of 5 April 1891 to record all the individuals who had spent the night in the house. People who were […]
The Exhibition Inn was once situated at 32 Loughborough Road.The site is now an industrial premises
In 1874 on the June 23rd, a scheme agreed by the charity commission, proposed uniting four Mountsorrel charities. These were Richard Nidd’s Charity, the Consolidated Charities, Thomas Statham’s Charity and […]
This article was published in the Leicester Advertiser on Friday February 4th 1966
Courtesy of Marion Vincent
Originally set up as a school for the “Poor boys of Mountsorrel and Swithland” by Joseph Danvers in 1742 on the site (reusing the same building?) of a previous school […]
On the declaration of War men who were Regular Reservists or were serving with the Territorials or Yeomanry were mobilised. A little while later a list of those gone from […]