Category: What’s On

On the weekend of 15/16 March volunteers from the Hallaton Fieldwork Group spent many hours digging exploratory pits in the ground around Kibworth mill. With the assistance of mill volunteers, they sifted the soil looking for items of historical interest. Although the finds were nearly all modern and comprised pottery, brick/tile and animal bone. They used a metal detector on the trenches and spoil. This produced many nails, modern coins and metal fittings (some clearly from parts of the windmill). 

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a table top sale. It is on Saturday 10 May in Kibworth Village Hall, LE8 0LN, from 10am until 12:45pm.

Kibworth Library will mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day with an exhibition of artefacts kindly loaned by local residents. The display will be open to view during normal library opening hours from late morning on Tuesday 6 May until mid-afternoon on Friday 9. We would value offers to lend us anything that is local and is WW2-related. It could be:

Easter Sunday Services at the Kibworth Benefice Churches

Several members of the twice-monthly, Monday afternoon, Family History Workshop which gathers informally in Kibworth Community Library have been actively contemplating relaunching the currently dormant Kibworth History Society. (www.kibworth.org)

We would like to begin by again extending a huge thank you to everyone who donated preloved books for the World Book Day event. It was a massive success and the children adored selecting a book to keep. We look forward to repeating this next year as it was so wonderful.

Our Annual Plant Sale and Raffle will take place on Saturday 17 May,10am. - 12noon

In the February edition of the Kibworth & District Chronicle we outlined what your local Rotary Club had achieved during over 30 years.

The very popular garden at Westbrooke House at Little Bowden, Market Harborough, LE16 8AX opens twice in April and May.

Are you affected by Parkinson’s? Why not join our choir?