The BBQ tonight is a Frisby not the Memorial Hall !

Mel

NEXT MEETING Frisby on the Wreake BBQ, Flint pottery Date: Friday
August 29th, 2008 Time: From 6.30pm Bring food to share Pots from
previously have been fired so if you want to make another for ourside
fireing please drop round for some clay ! .

Mel

NEXT MEETING Brooksby Walk Malcolm Briton
Date: Thursday July 24, 2008
Time: 6:45 pm - 8:45 pm Meet Brooksby Main Car Park

Hope to see you there

Mel

I would like to change the date of this to 24th of July. If anyone
can't make this but prefers any of the other dates listed below, please
let me know, by the end of this week.

Wed 16th
Thurs 17th
Tues 22nd
Wed 23rd


Thanks

Mel

Important note March meeting posponed until 31st March (sorry Bank
Holiday) it and the April meetings will be at The Hobby House Searave,
not the Memorial Hall.

Mel

My Dad, Ev Loseby, was the Vicar of Seagrave and Walton on the Wolds
in the early 1970's and had the wonderful big house on the corner on
the left as you go up the hill.  I was in the Royal Marines at the
time but when my wife and I came home on leave, Dad used to show us
the Church Records and chest.  He always refused to allow the LDS
access to the records as they wanted to re-baptise family ancestors
into the LDS Church.  Anyway we used to look at these records and
where people used to sign with their 'X' and who held what land.

What we didn't realise and find out until a couple of years ago, was
that our own ancestor Richard Loseby C1812 married Sarah Benskin from
the Village; that one of Sarah's relatives was the Vicar in those
days, and that the Loseby family lived there for the best part of a
hundred years.

I also remember going down to the pub with Dad frequently (he liked
his pint)and going to the hunt meet at Walton.

I remember the Owen family being in the big house behind the Church,
Eric Reynolds (who I used to work for in about 1960 when I was 12),
Commander Dean and I think the chap who owned the TV/Radio shop in
Belvoir Street.  There were also a lovely couple who used to live
opposite the Church/Pub.  One family that were also really helpful
where a farming family where the son was called 'Pip'.

We actually took our son to Seagrave a few weeks ago as he visited a
few times in his first 4 or 5 years.  Whoever has the old vicarage now
has done a lovely job renovating it.  The workshop that went over the
top of the coalhouse/garage and pig sty was always my favourite place.
  It really does look nice now as do the new houses that have been
built since those days on that road.

Dad died about 18 months ago but I still have the newspaper cutting of
about the painting that was sent to Gracie Fields and a letter about
her friendship with the former Vicar, Rev. Cope.

As regards Richard Loseby, I understand that he lived on New York farm
- I don't suppose anyone knows where that was do they?

Kindest regards and you still have a beautiful village

Paul Loseby

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Well-known local author Bob Trubshaw has spent over twenty years
researching the history of the group of eight parishes known as 'The
Wolds'.  On Tuesday 18th September he will reveal for the first time
his new insights in a fully illustrated talk called 'The Wolds: What,
When and Where?' at Burton on the Wolds village hall, commencing at
7.45.

By looking closely at the available evidence from archaeology,
history, place-names and the landscape itself, Bob Trubshaw will
answer such questions as:

- Why are our parishes are known as 'the Wolds'?
- Where was the Iron Age 'Especially Sacred Grove'?
- Why did this grove become a Roman town and later an early church?
- Where did the 'natives' go when the Anglo-Saxons arrived?
- Why does Seagrave have pre-Anglo-Saxon minor place-names?
- What do the names of Walton, Prestwold and Burton reveal about
Wolds history?
- When  and why  did villages first appear?
- What did the Vikings do for  and to  the Wolds?

This talk is the last in a series of events celebrating the twentieth
anniversary of the Wolds Historical Organisation.  After the talk
Nick Shaw will present the prizes in the Wolds Historical
Organisation's 'The WHO's What, When and Where' competition.

'The Wolds: What, When and Where?'  Fully illustrated talk by Bob
Trubshaw
Burton on the Wolds village hall
Tuesday 18th September  7.45 p.m.  admission free
For further information contact Bob Trubshaw on 01509 880725

http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/community_archaeology/na
tional_archaeology_week.htm

Mel

From one History Society to another:
We wish you all the very best with your Society and look forward to
sharing a meeting or an outing with you.