What a year in Loughborough!

View in Queen's Park

At this time of year, I usually make a note to have a look at the blog posts I've written over the previous 12 months, to remind myself of what I've written to avoid too much repetition; to pick up posts that need to be followed up, and to see what sort of topics have been popular with my readers, after all, there is little point sharing information about our lovely town, if no-one wants to read about it!!! 

The blog is celebrating being around for 8 years this week, so here I am looking at posts from the beginning of August 2020 to today. And what a different year it's been! My habit has previously been to chose what to write about based often on what I've done and where I've been during the week. This led to lots of posts about how Loughborough connections seem to be found in so many different places, like 

• Tiverton (no less than 3 posts about this! 1 and 2 and 3!), 
• Pembroke, 
• Birmingham, 
• Leicester and St Ives, 
• Kendal/Carlisle and Scotland Pts 1 and 2, 
• Harrogate and many, many more! 
• And posts about events in Loughborough, like 
• Picnic in the Park and the car show, 
• Remembrance Day, 
• the fair, and 
• specialist markets  

This year, there has been virtually no travel for me, so such connections have not prompted posts. However, some local events did prompt posts, like Remembrance Day (even though this was an event closed to the public), and the ceramics market, and a trip to Nanpantan Hall.  

In other posts this year, I've looked back at things like Loughborough's connection with the Festival of Britain, and the celebrations that took place in Loughborough, at the Zeppelin raids that took place in the town in 1916 over three posts (1 and 2 and 3), at the town's agricultural shows, and at specific events in Loughborough's past, like the fire in the Co-op building on Wood Gate.

Some of the most interesting posts to write were those that focussed on a specific person, like So who was ... Bernard Nixon Wale and his time in Loughborough, or Clarence George Starkey and his time as manager of a Loughborough cinema, or Arthur Edward Shepherd, local builder extraordinaire. 

Also interesting to research were particular buildings, like the Holy Trinity Church, and the King's Head (yes, far too long for one blog post so spread over Part 1, and Part 2, and Part 3, and Part 4), and two posts on Glebe House (1 and 2). 

Other posts that have been fun to do included a series of posts about Tuckers (Part 1, and Part 2, and Part 3 and Part 4), posts about the streets of Loughborough, like Fairmount Drive, and a rare Loughborough quiz, this year on the gates of Loughborough, that's actual gates onto driveways, not gates like Baxter Gate, Pinfold Gate etc.!

Anyway, if you ever want to look back at any previous posts, there is a reasonably complete list of these over on this page (which you can find at the top of the blog post in the web version), or you can click on the labels that appear to the right of the posts. There is also a search option that allows you to enter your own search terms to find things you might be looking for. Other pages lead to virtual walking trails, like the Zeppelin trail, or the Three Towers trail, and to some virtual ten-minute town trails.

Here's the top ten posts of the past year:

And here's the least popular posts from the same period:

Thank you for reading the blog!!

Looking forward to another year of blogging!! 

Posted by lynneaboutloughborough 8 August 2021

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