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What's on in September
Join us at the Sir John Moore Foundation for some free exhibitions and some ticketed talks and music events.
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Community Lottery
Support our museum and select us as your good cause through the North West Leicestershire Community Lottery.
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Sir John Moore Foundation Summer Fair
We are proud to present a community summer fair for all including a bouncy castle, live bands, stalls, dog show along with food trucks and refreshments. The Golden Duck Brewery will be on site holding a mini beer festival. Held on the front lawn and in the Great Hall. Come along and join us.
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Moorestock - 60s music live event
What a wonderful evening of live music!
Please keep a look out for more of our music community events!
Appleby Writing School
Professor Fred Steward gives a fascinating talk on the unusual and distinctive contribution to British education that Appleby Writing School had.
If you would like to view this video please visit the Sir John Moore Foundations You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIioE6rIUss
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Local History Café Newsletters
PDF format newsletters, click title to view.
LHC Extended August 2025
Crows in the rural environment - literal, legend and myth, and imagination
LHC Extended July 2025
Keeping cool in Victorian times and a long lost begging letter to Sir John Moore
LHC Extended June 2025
The origins of the WI, the story of Joyce de Appleby and the important role of the knackerman
LHC Extended May 2025
Missing treasure, learning about house plants and another favourite teacher
LHC Extended April 2025
A favourite teacher and girl guide leader, and Appleby's Neolithic beginnigs
LHC Extended March 2025
Variable Spring weather and rural communities, the village cobbler
LHC Extended February 2025
Edwardian Valentines, ghost signs and mobile shops
LHC Extended January 2025
When many rural households kept a pig
LHC Extended December 2024
Christmases past and Appleby footpaths
LHC Extended November 2024
Including memories of Ashby Statutes and Memorials to child deaths in the 19th C Appleby graveyard
LHC Extended October 2024
Continuing memories of the wartime blackout, plus exploring harvest time and halloween
LHC Extended Golden Anniversary Supplement
To celebrate our 50th edition of the newsletter, a look back over earlier editions
LHC Extended September 2024
How WWII blackouts affected Appleby life and our volunteer project to decipher the hall graffiti
LHC Extended August 2024
Memories of summer fetes, the school year of 1891 and the history of our museum
LHC Extended July 2024
The school year in 1891 (on which our museum is based) and other summer items
LHC Extended June 2024
A final part of memories of wash day, how steam trains changed holidays and religion and prosperity in the 1890s
LHC Extended May 2024
How children were named in the past, some history of Birmingham and more
LHC Extended April 2024
A history of postcards, a visit from the High Sheriff and more Appleby childhood memories
LHC Extended March 2024
More Appleby characters and lead inkwells in the museum collection
LHC Extended February 2024
Memories of the village cobbler, the big freeze of 1947, and boards to share Appleby's heritage
LHC Extended January 2024
More memories of Appleby and nearby
