Burton Joyce & Bulcote Local History Society

The Burton Joyce Centre for Local History is now closed. The archives have been transferred to the Nottinghamshire Archives and various beneficiaries, including the Ruddington Framework Knitting Museum, Bilsthorpe Museum, Stoke Bardolph Village Hall and Burton Joyce Primary School.

Please note that all future evening meetings with speakers will now be held on the second Wednesday in the month in the village library.

The Society has recently produced two new books on Local History.

A Tale of Two Villages

by Mary Gardiner.

This well illustrated book covers the historical development of Burton Joyce & Bulcote through many of its notable as well as lesser known personalities, from Saxon and Norman beginnings to Victorian and Edwardian characters.

Copies can be ordered, price £14.99 + £3 p&p from secretary@bjblhs.uk

Lest We Forget

by Stephen Wright.

To celebrate 100 years after the Armistice following the Great War, this booklet records the local men who lost their lives in the conflict and whose names are recorded on the village memorials. Details of their family backgrounds and extracts from regimental records illustrate this tragic episode in history.