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, […]
Local Historian Brian Kibble Opens the Anstey Community Library
At a summer public meeting, we held a vote of all volunteers, to find the person we thought should open our community library. The vote for Brian Kibble was unanimous. […]
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