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Ibstock • Market Bosworth • Ellistown • Heather • Swepstone • Newton Burgoland • Donington-Le-Heath Battram • Nailstone • Ravenstone • Snarestone • Hugglescote • Bagworth • Normanton-Le-Heath • Barlestone

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1976_general.indd 1 06/02/2020 14:46 DARK SIDE OF THE WALL ARE BACK! THE PALACE 04.04.20

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They produced cycle motors and scooters with low output, two stroke engines of various cubic capacities, including the Capri of 70cc, 80cc and 125cc, the Rex Monaco and the 48cc Como. By the late 1960s the Agrati company ceased to exist due to a takeover by the Italian Garelli company. Anyone who saw Dark Side Of The Wall’s show at The In well over 2 hours of reverent tribute to their heroes, DSOTW Palace in Ibstock last March will be delighted to hear they’re perform music from all Pink Floyd’s classic albums and feature The Agrati scooter range, although less common and desirable than the Lambretta and returning again on SATURDAY 4th APRIL with their stunning tracks such as Comfortably Numb, Money, Wish You Were Here, Vespa scooters, were ridden by Mods in the early sixties and will still be fondly remembered live show featuring classic material from one of the world’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Another Brick In The Wall to by many previous proud owners. most enduring rock bands... the legendary Pink Floyd. name just a few. If you’ve seen Dark Side of the Wall in concert The award-winning DSOTW show is a spectacular combination before then you’ll know it’s a show not to be missed. My newly acquired scooter is a 1960 80cc Capri Model with a three speed manual gearbox; admittedly it does require a full restoration, of expertly recreated Pink Floyd music mixed with projections, Advance tickets for the show at The Palace are now available. which has already begun, but this is part of the pleasure and challenge of owning an old classic...... so, watch this space! lasers and light show, creating a memorable night for all lovers of They can be bought at the venue during their opening hours or by Andy (Ibstock) not just Pink Floyd, but fans of live music in general. contacting The Palace on 01530 262400 or emailing enquiries@ thepalaceibstock.co.uk. They will also be available on the door Here at the Community Voice, we would be delighted to receive stories from any of our readers regarding their cherished The band’s manager and bass player Steve Chilton says, “We loved our show at The Palace last year and were thrilled at the on the night subject to availability. We recommend booking in vehicles and bikes, to be included in our 'Classic Corner' feature. turn out. The audience were great from the opening song right advance to avoid disappointment. through to the encore and it was a no-brainer to arrange a return For more info on the band you can look them up on Facebook or this year. We’re all looking forward to seeing everyone in April.” simply visit their website at www.pinkfloydtribute.co.uk

Tr 5 Ye ading Here Kat’s Collectables clock up 5 years ars TV Thursday 19th March 7.30pm As Seen On Friday 20th March 7.30pm at their ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ in Coalville Saturday 21st March 2.30pm & 7.30pm The proprietors of Coalville’s ‘Kat’s antique, vintage and collectables Century Theatre and Purple Theatre Presents: centre’ are celebrating 5 years at their Coalville premises. This Loot by Joe Orton delightful ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of collectables covers 1500 sq ft over £10.00 / £8.00 the two floors of it’s High Street premises. An amazing array of 1500 sq ft over 2 floors of Antique, vintage stock includes, gold and silver jewellery, coins, clocks and watches, and collectibles inc quality gold and silver Friday 27th March 7.30pm giftware, interiors and furniture. Free expert valuations are available jewellery,coins, militaria, stamps, hand painted Written and performed by Danny Mellor everyday and they guarantee to pay the highest prices in the area for furniture, giftware, interiors and much more’ Undermined items including gold, silver and costume jewellery, even if broken. £10.00 / £8.00 The shop is open for business everyday (including bank holidays). See ALSO WANTED Friday 6th March 7.30pm advert for more details. • All gold & silver jewellery including scrap & broken items Hanneke Rouw Saturday 28th March 7.30pm Dutch cellist Hanneke Rouw in concert • We pay more - the highest prices in the area Amy - A Tribute • Costume Jewellery £15.00 / £12.50 £17.50 • All coins We can also paint your Sunday 8th March 2.30pm and 7.30pm Wednesday 1st April 7.30pm • Militaria & medals own tired furniture for you D-Day Darlings Jeeves and Wooster with: Perfect Nonsense! • Stamps or supply the paint to do it yourself. Environmentally with Gary T Thompson £17.50 • Postcards friendly chalk and mineral based paint. £12.00 / £10.00 • Watches No added VOC or solvents. Thursday 2nd April 7.30pm • Silver & Silver Plate Friday 13th March 7.30pm Kerry Godliman • All interesting antiques, collectables & furniture. 1623 Theatre Company presents: £16.00 / £14.00 FREE VALUATIONS EVERYDAY • OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE Queer Lady M Friday 3rd April 7.30pm with Shane Lynch 50 High Street, Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 3EE Century Cinema Presents: £7.00 / £8.00 Find us on facebook - Open everyday inc bank holidays Knives out 10.00am - 4.00pm Saturday 14th March 7.30pm £3.50 holidays d weekends and bank iday; 9am-5pm, close The Ultimate Commitments open Monday-Fr The Box Office is CALL 07792 974309 and Blues Brothers Experience £21.00 / £18.00 /thecenturytheatre @century_theatre @century_theatre Public car park to rear of shop @century_theatre • @century_theatre /thecenturytheatre • ville, LE67 3LN Free parking from 3pm everyday and all day Sunday Century Theatre, AshbyCent Road,ury Theatre Coalville,, Ashby R oadLE67, Coal 3LN the voice page 12 page 13 the voice

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Pilates – 7.45pm to 8.45pm Contact Michelle Scott-Worthington the way! Skilfully written and directed by two group members, this highly successful show Sunday 1st March – FTGU WRESTLING presents FAMILY on 07887 678367. incorporated all the very best elements of a traditional family panto and sent capacity audiences FRIENDLY WRESTLING SHOW! Doors open at 4.00pm. Show TUESDAY home with a smile on the faces. Backstage and technical crew added their own special magic to starts at 4.30pm. Licensed bar and wrestling merchandise available. Bubbles – 10.30am to 12 noon Contact Richard Page on 01530 Tickets can be purchased online at FTGU.BIGCARTEL.COM or from 812201 or 07792 840948, email: [email protected] for the production. the Palace box office. For more information contact The Palace or call further details. 07772 695050. Walking Netball – 1.30pm to 2.30pm Contact Georgia James The group thank everyone who enthusiastically supported their show and invite anyone interested Friday 6th March – XMAS CARNIVAL PUBLIC MEETING on 01530 454735. in joining them to come along rehearsals. They meet most Wednesday nights at The Palace to discuss Ibstock village plans for Christmas 2020. Starts at 7.00pm. Yoga – 6.45pm to 7.45pm Contact Jonathan on 07776 304766 Please come along and lend your support! for details. Community Centre, High Street, Ibstock at 7.30 pm. It is a friendly group, with members of all Saturday 7th March – DARREN PAGE – THE VOICE OF Tai Chi – 8.00pm to 9.30pm Contact Doug Gerrard on 07969 ages and experience. (All children under 16 years do need to be accompanied by a parent or ROY ORBISON presented by A.M. Productions. Starts at 7.30pm. 480684. adult guardian at all times.) Plans are already afoot for next year's production, so watch this space! 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FRIDAY Saturday 21st March – GRESLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR Tai Chi – 10am to 11.00am Contact Michael Cashmore on 07714 IBSTOCK BRICK BRASS BAND return to The Palace to give another popular concert. Performance 215216. starts at 7.30pm. Tickets: £8.00 available from The Palace or on Saturday 28th March Stretch and Strengthen – 11.45am to 12.45pm These 07399417995 or can be ordered online at [email protected]. classes provide participants with gentle seated exercise whilst meeting Weds 25th March – THE PALACE WINE CLUB from 7.00pm new people. Contact The Palace box office 01530 262400. Ibstock Palace is delighted to be hosting two until 10.00pm. Children’s Dance Classes – Beginners Ballet 4.00 to wonderful nights of musical entertainment this Friday 27th March – PALACE BINGO – A great social night 4.45pm; Beginners Tap 4.45 to 5.30pm; Musical Theatre month. out! Doors open: 7.30pm. Eyes down: 8.00pm. Bar and refreshments 5.30 to 6.15pm Contact Miss Jessica of Rochelle School Of Dance are available. Everyone welcome. (established over 60 years in the area) 01455 636514, 07949 121442 or Gresley Male Voice Choir will be making a popular return visit [email protected] Saturday 28th March – IBSTOCK BRICK BRASS BAND – on Saturday 21st March and on Saturday 28th March, Ibstock in concert. Concerts starts at 7.30pm. Tickets: £7.00. Children SATURDAY under 15 FREE. Community Morning at the Palace – 10am to 12 noon Brick Brass Band will perform a concert at the village centre Saturday 4th April - ‘DARK SIDE OF THE WALL’ the ultimate Every Saturday (except the first Saturday of each month) the Palace venue. Both concerts start at 7.30pm. Tickets are £8.00 for plays host to groups, organisations and associations from the village, Pink Floyd tribute band return to The Palace. 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For a FREE, no obligation quote, call David on 07738 982 523 or 07790 925 144 and Garden reopens for 2020 season ➤ Boiler installation, service & repairs Gas & LPG Email: [email protected] ➤ Central heating systems One of the jewels in the crown of Leicestershire’s history and heritage is reopening to the public on Thursday ➤ Plumbing for new builds & renovations 2 April. The 1620s House and Garden in Donington-le-Heath is a surviving example of a family home built in Heather St Johns FC ➤ All drainage jobs undertaken ➤ Gas fire installations & inspections The Community Voice the 13th century and modernised in 1618. Ravenstone Road ➤ Complete bathroom & kitchen installations undertaken ➤ Free, no obligation quotations can also distribute your The house has been home to many families over its 700-year history, but the Digby family, which included the Gunpowder Plotter Sir Everard Digby, lived in the house for more than 200 years. The house is set in beautiful 17th century style gardens with labelled plants and flowers, an orchard, herb Heather LE67 2QJ marketing leaflets gardens and a maze. Following the opening day, the 1620s House & Garden will be open for the 2020 season from 10.30am – 4.30pm, Thursday to From just £39 per thousand you can reach All major credit cards accepted Established 1965 Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, until the end of September. The House & Garden also hosts a wide and varied events programme all the way up over 20,000 households. until the end of December. Events include talks, workshops, living history, open air theatre, plant fairs and much more. There is also an extensive ROOM HIRE AVAILABLE FOR: www.robertjdutton.co.uk For more details call 01530 267344 or schools programme. To view the range of events and find out more information, visit www.doningtonleheath.org.uk or call 01455 290429. Admission Tel: 01509 502402 email [email protected] to the House, Garden and Tea Room is £6.95 for adults, £6 for concessions and £3.50 for children on standard opening days, with family tickets also WEDDINGS available. Tickets to the House, Garden and Tea Room are available from the on-site ticket office on standard opening days. Tickets give unlimited free return visits on all non-event open days for 12 months from the day of purchase. Admission to events is subject to a small extra charge per BIRTHDAYS person with special events being subject to a one-off event charge – please see www.donington-le-heath.org.uk for details. 20 March is a Fundraising Night in aid of Local Scouts

Cllr Richard Blunt, Leicestershire County Council Cabinet member for Heritage, Leisure & Arts, said: “The 1620s House is an historic gem and we are ANNIVERSARIES Market Bosworth Agricultural, Horticultural and pleased to be able to welcome back visitors for the 2020 season. The House and its gardens, along with its staff and volunteers, help to bring history to life Equestrian Society are holding a bingo evening with a in an educational and attractive way and I would encourage people of all ages to pay it a visit.” The site is also available for private bookings and educational CHRISTENINGS chip supper to raise funds for Market Bosworth Scout visits outside normal opening hours. group. FUNERALS This will take place on Friday 20 March at Market Bosworth Rugby Club, the club opens at 7.00pm with the first game CORPORATE FUNCTIONS at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £10 per adult, £5.00 per child and includes fish Please contact: or sausage and chips. 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the voice page 30 page 31 the voice The trouble with gardening! IBSTOCK’S PUBLIC BATHS It is that time of year when all you keen gardeners Follow my tips to avoid injury: Recent research by Leicestershire Victoria are full of the winter blues and chomping at the bit to 1. Do small amounts of gardening at a time. County History has uncovered some fascinating get out there and start tidying up the garden. information about Ibstock’s first ‘Public Baths’. 2. Decide on one job in the garden and just do that (no distractions). As you have probably guessed, I am not a keen gardener – unlike my Few people in Ibstock would have had a bath in their house in the 3. Be strict with yourself and only do one hour at a time and then wife. But I am the one who gets a flurry of new patients in the early early 1900s, and those who did would have to fetch the water, as have a break before starting on your next task. spring. The most common injury I have to deal with in my remedial Ibstock’s houses were not connected to piped water until 1932. massage work at Healing Hands around this time is lower back 4. It is very important that you invest in the right equipment for There were then no pit head baths at the mines. problems, which will be of no surprise to some of you. doing the task, e.g. long handled tools (shears, hoe, hand forks Ibstock parish council decided to celebrate Queen Victoria’s and trowels) to stop you over reaching. diamond jubilee in 1897 by providing a recreation ground on land The main problem is that for the best part of six weeks you have all beyond the brook behind Orchard and Copson Streets. They been in hibernation, and your bodies are not ready for the excessive 5. Get a good wheel barrow to move things around the garden and also wanted to provide a ‘bathing tank’ nearby to benefit miners strain that gardening puts on your muscles, tendons and ligaments, avoid carrying heavy trugs, bags of compost or potted plants. who lacked adequate washing facilities at home. This had to wait not to mention your spine. 6. Wear the raight clothing to keep warm and dry, including good another year, as the water from the brook was contaminated So here is my advice: gloves and kneeling pads. with sewage, but after the district council provided the sewerage 7. Invest in good power tools such as soil tillers, hedge trimmers, works in 1898 the plans went ahead, and the ‘bathing tank’ Like all physical activity, whether it is sporting or work related, your opened later that year. body needs to be prepared for action; this means that before going scarifiers, etc. out there you should do a gentle warm up and some easy stretching. 8. Use a portable garden stool to reduce the amount of squatting There was no roof, and the water was unheated. A fee was Wrap up well too, as cold muscles and tendons are more likely to and bending. charged for entry, so presumably there was an attendant to strain or tear when placed under loads repeatedly. collect the money. Perhaps that deterred miners. It also meant that the poorest inhabitants (whose need may have been the greatest) 9. Think about creating raised beds to reduce bending. probably could not afford to use them. There is a tendency for us to get a little carried away once we have Well, to say I am not a gardener, merely the labourer, I think I have By 1903 the ‘bathing tank’ had become known as the ‘public baths’ (see map). Those who could afford the fee enjoyed what had become a got the bit between our teeth and we then wake up the next day given you some food for thought. So I hope you continue to relax new leisure facility. By the end of the first ‘season’, 1,922 people had paid for admission. with aches and pains. and enjoy your gardens pain-free. The baths were closed in 1913. The reason is not clear and no alternative facility was provided for the miners. Quite often we will have strained our muscles through over working All the best, In 1917, two miners were prosecuted and fined 7s. 6d. each for preparing to bathe and for bathing within 200 them and I have come across a number of people who have yards of a footpath. Presumably they were bathing in the brook, possibly near the closed baths. developed RSI (repetitive strain injury) of the thumb joint or wrist, Ian - Healing Hands Remedial Massage usually through getting carried away with either the pruning shears Ibstock Business Centre, 57 High Street, Ibstock Leicestershire Victoria County History’s paperback history of Ibstock will be published in 2020. or the fork and trowel. Facebook @HealingHandsofIbstock • Tel 07508 115080 Dr Pamela J Fisher Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust Brookside PS 4384 Jayne DOLBY Neighbourhood Sgt: Bardon Hill NN45, Coalville Police Station, Broad Street, Garage V Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 3PU. Tel: 101. www.leics.police.uk VVVVVV VVV Our Lives Not Knives campaign aims to deter For simply carrying a knife in a public place or are most likely to be convicted of carrying an a kitchen knife or screwdriver? VV people from picking up a knife in the first place on school premises, the maximum penalty if offensive weapon? VVV • Have you found a knife or other weapon in your V by highlighting the dangers and consequences convicted is four years in prison. Those found on Do you suspect your teenage son or daughter child’s possession? VVV G V IN of doing so. One knife crime incident is one too more than one occasion to be in possession of a has started carrying a knife? Would you know the SERVIC I think my child is carrying a knife. Where do • CAR BERS many. There is support available for those who knife face a minimum sentence of six months. signs to look out for? I go from here? O.T BSOR carry a knife or may be considering carrying a • M. CK A ING For offences when a knife is used on another Warning signs The best way to progress is to talk to your child. If SHO TION weapon, as well as anyone concerned about & ONDI person or in the commission of a crime (i.e. street young people are educated on the consequences BRAKES AIR C someone they know who has one. We are • Has your child withdrawn from the family unit? • STS • robbery), the punishments become even more of knife crime they may reconsider carrying knives. AU RS committed to working with our partners to tackle life-changing. • Has your child’s school reported a significant AR EXH EPAI CING behavioural change? Consider mentioning: • C AR R LAN knife crime and address its underlying issues. 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