Exhibition about Nanpantan

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that several of the projects I had been involved with recently were coming to their conclusion. In that post, I talked about the Focus on the Foundry photography programme, and since then the Bellfoundry Trust has included a brief review of the project on their website. 

Another local project, although my part in it is completed, isn’t yet live on the internet, so I’ll share that when it’s publicly available. Another project was a small exhibition, which ended up being hosted somewhere other than originally planned, and even smaller than intended: when I’ve seen it, I’ll share it with you!! Yet another project did result in an exhibition, so here’s a very short piece about it!!

On Monday evening, 24th March, an exhibition was held at Nanpantan Hall, which showcased the research about Nanpantan done by a group of volunteers working under the guidance of an experienced Victoria County History researcher, Dr Pamela Fisher, who has previously written a couple of guest posts for this blog [1]. Finded by the Charnwood Forest Geopark, meetings were held towards the end of 2024, and into early 2025, at Home Farm, where the volunteers learned skills and techniques for researching local history.

The volunteers put these skills to good use either at home or in the public library, and researched things like the pubs in Nanpantan, the school, the reservoir, the local farms, the local scout and guide groups, and so on, together gradually building up a picture of the area over time.

Although I had previously done some research on Nanpantan, some of which I wrote up in my ‘A-Z of Loughborough’, some in ‘Loughborough Pubs’, and some on this blog [2], for this project I researched some areas I wasn’t previously familiar with, and I have to admit it was rather good to be part of a team and to work with other people who were also researching.

As I said, the results of the research – well, a small amount of it! (there’s always far more information found than can be accommodated in a book, a journal article, a blog post, or even an A3 poster!) – was exhibited at Nanpantan Hall.

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Notes

[1]

Mary Tate of Burleigh Hall 

Loughborough’s Second Workhouse  

[2]

Visit to Nanpantan Hall 

N is for Nanpantan 

Nanpantan and Temperance 

Nanpantan church stone 

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