Century of Stories Anstey Project continues at Latimer School
The Century of Stories team is now working with one of our village schools … “Last week we launched a WW1 History project at Anstey Latimer Primary School with 60 enthusiastic year […]
Rediscovering Old Anstey – the Nook Yard Timber
As soon as we published the article on “Fire at Nook Yard, 1938” more information was sent in by several residents about the remains of the one of the larger demolished […]
Martin High School Present Cheque to Anstey Community Library
A huge thank you to all of the staff and pupils at Martin High School who chose to donate the money collected from their 2016 Christmas Raffle to Anstey Community […]
Happy 1st Birthday Anstey Community Library
On 3rd October 2015, Anstey Library became Anstey Community Library and has been running ever since as a charity, staffed by a team unpaid volunteers from the local community. We celebrated […]
Ruffles the Railway Dog at Anstey Library
In August 2016 we welcomed Rachel and Ruffles the Railway Dog to Anstey Library. See below for videos of the puppet show – Rachel is such a fantastic puppeteer that […]
Creepy Crawlies Day, June 2016
From watching real live stick insects … to hand printing, craft makes and digging for fake worms in a tray of “cloud mud” … we had a brilliant time getting […]
Introduction to the Ned Ludd Story of Anstey – by Ian Porter
“It is well documented that Ned Ludd who hailed from Anstey smashed his masters’ frame in a fit of temper. What is not so well known is that frame breaking existed as […]
Bringing the Ned Ludd story home …
The next stage of bringing the Ned Ludd story home to Anstey … Jane, Jenny and myself met with Sharon and Ian from Loughborough Local History Volunteers this afternoon – […]
Gallery: Bird Box Building Event
To celebrate National Bird Box Week we ran the Half Term – Build a Bird Box event, with the help of local bird ranger Mel Preston. It proved a popular success – […]
Rothley Brook bursts its banks
After a severe storm, the Anstey community worked together to keep track of the impending floods. Cllr Melissa Hadfield, Flood Warden, was out in the torrential rain, in the dark, […]
Anstey Community Library 