Rural Life
Leicestershire’s
landscape
is largely rural with market towns and villages set in the middle of beautiful countryside.
This
section explores rural Leicestershire and highlights objects that demonstrate the ways in which the
countryside has played host to local people at work, at home and at leisure.
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An Ancient
House at Kirby Muxloe by John Flower
A drawing of disappearing Leicestershire... |
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The Beaumanor Chair
A huge chair carved from a single tree trunk... |
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Gunter Chain What’s this? A load of old bed springs...? |
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The Lubenham
Stable Door
Is this the horse shoe of a Grand National Winner...? |
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Robert
Bakewell mounted on a bay cob
Leicestershire's Pioneering farmer... |
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Seed Sower Sower of Kegworth Fields... |
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Sir John Moore School Clock Telling the time for a new age... |
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Sketch
for 'The Quorn at Quenby'
A sketch by Leicestershire's famous animal painter... |
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'The Two-headed Calf'
Raising money for the war effort... |
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List of Ullesthorpe Subscription Windmill Shareholders Women hold nearly 20% of shares in new village enterprise – windmill gathers momentum...! |
Page Last Updated: 9 January 2012
