April 2025 Newsletter
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April Lubenham Heritage Group Newsletter
We warmly welcome Rob Doyle as our speaker this evening on Managing the Wildlife at Bradgate Park, especially looking at the five main habitats.
May’s Meeting will be on Tuesday 13th May 2025 at 7.30pm Roman Leicestershire presented by Peter Liddle, which includes the recent discovery in Rutland of an extraordinary Roman Villa and Mosaic. The Rutland Roman villa is a Romano-British villa site. The site was listed as a scheduled monument by Historic England on 23 November 2021. The villa includes the first example of a mosaic in Britain which depicts scenes from Homer’s Iliad.
Members Only Trip to Snibston Colliery, Coalville
Tuesday 29th April at 10.30
Names are now being taken for the first “Members Only” visit of 2025. Snibston Colliery Park is situated adjacent to the Century Theatre, off Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LN, about 34 miles and 50 minutes drive from Lubenham. There is a café and car parking (currently £3 per day) on site and more parking in nearby streets and a town car park 10 minutes away (see https://leicscountryparks.org.uk/parks/snibston-colliery-park/).
Please meet at the café ready to start the tour at 10.30am. We will be guided by a former miner and shown the type of machinery used underground and various colliery buildings. As we will not be going underground there is a mine simulation. We will also have some costumed re-enactors telling stories of the mine. I expect the visit to last 1½ to 2 hours. I am advised that the café is very good, you may want to arrive in time for coffee before the tour or stay for lunch afterwards. I understand they serve soups and sandwiches and hot and cold drinks.
The visit is free for members and £5 per head for non-members, payable on the day in cash. Please contact Margaret Lewis if you would like to take part.
Visit to Melton Mowbray 20th June 2025
Melton Mowbray is a charming town famous for its pork pies and stilton cheese. It has a rich history of royal connections, hunting traditions, and rural heritage and the town’s medieval church, historic market, and the fascinating museum are all worthy of a visit. Consequently, we have booked a guided walk for Members on Friday 20th June at 2.00pm. More details to follow.
Change to Meetings Programme
David Burditt is unable to give his talk in September so Pip has agreed to move his presentation A History of Lubenham School from June 10th to September 9th. He will be replaced in June by Mike Burton talking on The Pilgrim’s Way, the historic route taken by pilgrims from Winchester to Canterbury Cathedral.
and Finally …..
Help needed with producing this monthly Newsletter. Due to the pressure of Church work over these past few weeks, I am finding it hard to keep to the production deadline for the Newsletter. Anybody with experience of using Word and Publisher Programmes would soon pick up what is needed to be done. Please contact Pip Clements if you can help.