BYGONE BOSWORTH is a series of periodical publications by Husbands Bosworth Historical Society.
Since 1977, the Historical Society have published occasional booklets under the Bygone Bosworth title. Copies of the various publications are available from the Historical Society Archivist. (For contact details go to foot of page)
FLYING AT HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
The Historical Society has recently published "Flying at Husbands Bosworth".
Any account of flying at Husbands Bosworth is bound to focus largely on the activities of the World War II aerodrome, RAF Husbands Bosworth. This book attempts to tease out and record in a palatable form many of the technical issues, social and personal stories and the inevitable tragedies, that relate to Bosworth but could easily refer to any such wartime establishment.
The book also looks at local flying before the war, when Mr. Lee’s farm at Cote Hill, an established ‘hot-spot’ of activity for the fledgling gliding movement, was being seriously considered for elevation to airport status.
After the war, flying at Bosworth continued almost without pause for breath, in the greater part amongst the relict of war, with the rise of gliding and the private pilot’s licence...
Copies are available from Melvyn Forman 01858 880281 (email:
Price £6. (post & packing extra - please ask for price)
'Flying at Husbands Bosworth' by Melvyn Forman 2015 52pp A4 format soft-back
DETAILS OF CONTENTS
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ISSUE 1. June 1977 Reprint 1980 Price £1 (plus p & p)
QUEEN VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE
Extracts from the Market Harborough Advertiser June 1897
JUBILEE COMMEMORATION TREE PLANTING
Market Harborough Advertiser November 16th 1897
WORKING IN HUSBANDS BOSWORTH IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY”
by John Knight. A comprehensive description of the trades and businesses carried on in Husbands Bosworth at the turn of the century.
ISSUE 2. Autumn 1977 Price £1 (plus p & p)
STREET LIGHTS FOR BOSWORTH
From Market Harborough Advertiser , November 1948
Report of the installation of electricity to the village...
From Market Harborough Advertiser , February 18th 1949
Recollections of paraffin lamps obtained by R H P Hutchinson of Bosworth House for use as street lighting around the village.
SOME WARTIME MEMORIES
by Miss Hilda Porter
Extracts from “MIDLAND MAIL”December 1946
Husbands Bosworth News: Christmas at Parish Church...
Presentation to Organ Blower: “Mr. George Law, who has acted as blower for over 26 years…”
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES – THE GOLDEN YEARS 1904-1914
EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIRS OF MRS. DAVID CONSTABLE-MAXWELL
ISSUE 3. Summer 1978 Price £1 (plus p & p)
THE BOSWORTH TAPESTRY
A history of Husbands Bosworth from its origins to 1900
from a talk given to the Husbands Bosworth Historical Society by Bertram Copping.
ISSUE 4. Spring 1979 Reprinted 1984 Price £1 (plus p & p)
MEMORIES OF MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS
Collected by Doris Knight
THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH
By Hilda Porter
MY SCHOOL DAYS
By Edgar Stanyon
EXTRACTS FROM A FARM DIARY
Kept by Mr. Tom Bromell in the year 1908
Mr. Bromell farmed at Lodge Farm, formerly known as Glover's Farm and Carrland Farm, which was demolished in about 1941 when the airfield was built.
THE WILL AND INVENTORY OF WILLIAM CHAPMAN
Part of a talk given to the Historical Society by Heather Bird
ISSUE 5. Spring 1980 Reprint 1995 Price £1 (plus p & p)
VILLAGERS WAIT FOR WATER
Extracts from Market Harborough Advertiser October 31st 1947
Several villages in the Welland valley area are suffering from the most serious water shortages experienced for many years…”
HUSBANDS BOSWORTH IN 1950
Extracts from a Women’s Institute Survey. A survey of property, institutions and occupants of Husbands Bosworth parish...
Prepared by the late Miss E M Marsh
THE YEARS 1918-1919
by Edgar Stanyon
Memories of convalescence as a wounded soldier.
THE BOSWORTH CRICKET CLUB
by Coral Jennings
Extracts from a talk given to the Historical Society in 1978.
ISSUE 6. Spring 1981 Price £1 (plus p & p)
HISTORY OF THE BOSWORTH BAPTIST CHAPEL
By Richard Tilley (Church Secretary 1927-47)
Extracts from the RULES AND CONDITIONS for the LETTING & MANAGEMENT
of the LAND ALLOTMENTS IN THE PARISH OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH (1846-47)
SOME MEMORIES OF MY BOSWORTH CHILDHOOD
By May Gilby
(Based on a tape-recording made for the Historical Society by Mr. A Henley)
JUNIOR FOOTBALL MEMORIES
By C.R.M. Jennings
ISSUE 7. Winter 1982 Reprinted1984 Price £1 (plus p & p)
MORE THREADS IN THE BOSWORTH TAPESTRY
A further talk given to the Historical Society by Bertram Copping.
ISSUE 8. Summer 1984 Price £1 (plus p & p)
SOME MEMORIES OF LIFE IN BOSWORTH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY
By Hilda Porter
(Based on a tape-recording made for the Historical Society by A Henley)
THE BAPTIST CHAPEL 1807-1984
By Peter Knight
A FEW NOTES ABOUT PAPILLON HALL
By Edgar Stanyon
THE FORMATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF CHARITIES IN HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
By Mary Kings
FURTHER LANDMARKS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HUSBANDS BOSWORTH CHARITIES
By John Knight (Hon. Sec. Trustees)
ISSUE 9. September 1986 Price £1 (plus p & p)
COMMUNITY LIFE IN HUSBANDS BOSWORTH DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
By Hilda M. Porter
SOME MEMORIES OF A BOSWORTH CHILDHOOD
By G.R.Tilley
HUSBANDS BOSWORTH AND THE KAISER'S WAR
MY EXPERIENCES ON WORLD WAR I
By E. Stanyon
BOSWORTH'S WAR AS SEEN IN THE GARTREE DEANERY MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 17TH 1914
A concert in the Turville Memorial Hall in aid of the Belgian Local Relief Fund,
performed by the school children and the Band of Hope…
ISSUE 10. September 1988 Price £1 (plus p & p)
FIFTY YEARS IN BOSWORTH
From a talk given to the Historical Society by Doris Lang on March 4th 1987.
FLOWER SHOWS AND FEUDS
DEAR PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS
Extracts from the Church Parish Magazine, which was started in 1883 by the Rev. R. Tomlinson
and continued until he left the village in 1887.
ISSUE 11. September 1988 Reprint 1995 Price £1 (plus p & p)
THE TURVILLE MEMORIAL HALL
The opening of the hall in 1896 and activities in the early years. Article based on the report taken from Market Harborough Advertiser March 21st 1896.
PROGRAMME FOR THE FUND-RAISING “GRAND BAZAAR”.
CHARITIES AND CHARITABLE SOCIETIES PROVIDED BY ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
AN EDWARDIAN VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
Notes from accounts of Mr. Woodford, village blacksmith.
ISSUE 12. October 1994 Price £1 (plus p & p)
VERY BYGONE BOSWORTH, or How It Might All Have Begun
By Richard Bird
REMINISCENCES of the late Coral Jennings
...who was born in 1907 and came to live at Highfields House in 1919, where his father was the Head Gardener.
Memories of sports, entertainment and social activities…
EXTRACTS FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER KNIGHT of Husbands Bosworth
Conducted by Steph Mastoris of Harborough Museum.
Memories of his father’s funeral business…
ISSUE 13. Special Edition Reprint Price £4.00 (plus p & p)
1891 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Compiled and edited by Marion Allen
Discussions on social aspects of the population and street layout maps.
Details of known families: (and discussed...)
Knight family (Photograph)
Charles and Sarah Knight
Dimblebees & Tilleys (Photograph)
Collis family
Hancock family
Shackleford family
Teear family
Turvilles of Bosworth Hall (none of family at home at time of census)
Marsh family (Photograph)
Gilby family (Photograph)
Cheney family (Photograph)
Scrimshire family
Cross family (Photograph)
Gray family
Heighton family (Photograph)
Facer family
Wells family
Woodhouse family
Johnson family (Photograph)
Hopewell family
FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF 1891 CENSUS for Husbands Bosworth
ISSUE 14. February 1996 Price £1 (plus p & p)
A SHORT HISTORY OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN HUSBANDS BOSWORTH SINCE THE 17TH CENTURY.
Taken from a study of schooling in Husbands Bosworth by Janice Prowse (now Staples) written in 1984.
CHAPTER 2
A New School
CHAPTER 3
Education for All
CHAPTER 4
Into the Twentieth Century
CHAPTER 5
After the First World War
HEADTEACHERS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL FROM 1858
Complete List
ISSUE 15. Summer 2005 Price £3.00 (plus p & p)
AN SPECIAL EDITION CELEBRATING THE 60th ANNIVERSARY OF VE/VJ DAY & THE ENDING OF WORLD WAR II.
THE BUILD-UP TO WAR
Husbands Bosworth prepares to go to war...
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
Extracts from local newspapers...
RECOLLECTIONS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH FOLK
Jack Begley, Cliff Brown, Betty Bennett, Agnes Clarke, Olive Gauld, A Lloyd Jones, Doris Lang, Stella Monk, Terry O'Malley, Aneurin Owen, Doff Paige, Marie Simmonds, Janet Smith, Cath Varnsverry, Harry Sutton, Bert Wells, Mamie Wilkins
THE WELCOME HOME FUND
Includes a full list of recipients
HUSBANDS BOSWORTH 2000 AD
A time capsule in words and pictures.
This book was prepared by Husbands Bosworth Historical Society to mark the end of the millennium by describing the village as it was at the turn of the century. In compiling it we invited everyone in the village to contribute information in order to give as rounded a picture as possible of life in the village.
The book chronicles village events that took place during the Millennium Year, businesses and activity groups that were operating at that time and takes the reader for a virtual tour of the village. Maps, photographs and line drawings bring the story to life.
Copies of HUSBANDS BOSWORTH 2000 AD are available from the Historical Society, price £3 plus postage and packaging.
ISSUE 16. Winter 2009
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1901 CENSUS FOR HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Includes family history notes for the following Bosworth families:
Teear, Knight (the builders), Cave, Gilby, Marsh, Dimblebee, Tilley, Knight (Charles & Fred), Hancock, Scrimshire, Cheney, Cross, Wells, Heighton, Facer, Woodhouse, Hopwell.
Also includes "Working in Husbands Bosworth in the First Decade of the Twentieth Century" ; a talk given by John Knight to the Historical Society in 1974 (with new footnotes).
Copies of this publication are £3.50 plus postage & packaging.
ISSUE 17. Summer 2011
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1881 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
ISSUE 18. Autumn 2011
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1841 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
ISSUE 19. Autumn 2011
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1851 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
ISSUE 20. Spring 2012
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1861 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
ISSUE 21. Summer 2012
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1871 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
ISSUE 22. Autumn 2012
A FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE 1911 CENSUS OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH
Copies of this publication are £4 plus postage & packaging
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THE COMPLETE SET OF HUSBANDS BOSWORTH CENSUS TRANSCRIPTIONS (1841-1911) IS NOW AVAILABLE BY SPECIAL ORDER ON DVD
*******A unique resource for family history researchers*******
(Publications are in .pdf format, which will open with Adobe Acrobat, and images in .jpg format, which will open with any image viewing and editing programme).
NOTE:These are facsimilie copies of the printed Bygone Bosworth publications (as noted above) and contain a wealth of community, social and family history information in addition to the transcriptions.
Copies are £17.50 each plus postage & packaging (letter rate).
Historical Society Archivist: | Melvyn Forman The Firs Farm, Welford Road,Husbands Bosworth LE17 6JH Telephone: 01858 880281 E-mail: |