CHI Conference 2007 Routes to Roots
Saturday 28th April 2007 Broughton Astley Village Hall
‘A celebration of heritage in the Leicestershire landscape’
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The Fields of Leicestershire | Burbage Heritage Group, Past Present and Future | Rothley Heritage Open Day 2006 | leicestershirevillages.com | Creative celebration | Using Museum Collections | Leicestershire and Rutland Wild Flower Survey | Broughton Astley update | Bottesford Living History project
The Fields of Leicestershire | John Lacey, Mowsley Heritage Group and Heritage Warden described the studies he had undertaken in his home parish of Mowsley. He showed ways of identifying old field boundaries and other features, and also explained how some names and characteristics could be misleading. |
Burbage Heritage Group, Past Present and Future | John Robbins and Sylvia Whitworth, Burbage Heritage Group and Heritage Wardens gave a brief account of the group’s development, how it started, bringing us up to the present, and on into the future. View a summary of the Burbage Heritage Group presentation (pdf document, 221kb) |
Rothley Heritage Open Day 2006 | Marion Vincent, Rothley Heritage Warden , Terry Shepperd, local historian and Brian Verity, Archaeology Warden explained how a partnership of the Parish Archaeology Warden, Heritage Warden and Village History Group attracted over 800 visitors to Rothley as part of the Civic Trust's Heritage Open Day. View the slides of the Rothley Heritage Open Day (pdf document, 4.28mb) |
Making best use of your village website | Chris Poole Leicestershire County Council Village Website Content Co-ordinator introduced the Leicestershire Villages website system showcasing some of the varied projects that have been developed across the county. |
Creative celebration of our parishes and heritage | Kerry Featherstone - Leicestershire Library Service, Literature Development Officer An interactive session exploring creative ways to celebrate our heritage! Kerry led a series of exercises to look at how we can interpret our heritage recording in a creative way. View the poems created during the session by some of the delegates |
Using Museum Collections  | Anthony Fletcher, Leicestershire County Council Keeper of Natural Life, gave a brief introduction of how the collections held by the County Council Environment and Heritage Service can help your parish activities. |
Leicestershire and Rutland Wild Flower Survey | Ruth Fenney, of Leicestershire and Rutland Federation of Womens Institutes explained about the 2007 common wild flower survey and the wider countryside recording project developed within the two counties. View the WI Wildflower Survey presentation (pdf document, 1.62mb) |
An update of activities in our host parish | Cynthia Thomas- Broughton Astley Heritage Group and Heritage Warden talked about the importance of recording and archiving our parishes as they are now. |
Bringing Local History to Life | Neil Fortey, Bottesford and Muston Heritage Warden talked about the potential of local history to the cultural life of village communities in NE Leicestershire. |
