The New Dishley Society Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the Birth of Robert Bakewell of Dishley Grange, Loughborough
Friday 30th May, 2025.
7:30pm.
Loughborough University.
FREE.
The Tercentenary Lecture will be given by Mr John Thorley OBE, FRAgS, on ‘Robert Bakewell and his Enduring Influence in the UK and Abroad‘ in Room EHB110A in the Edward Herbert Building (63 on the map), by kind permission of Loughborough University.
For directions and parking see https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media/media/services/fm/downloads/1103-X-XX-Parking%20Map.pdf
Parking charges apply at £1 after 6.30pm.
Tea/coffee will be served after the lecture.
This is a FREE ticketed event.
A New Book: Robert Bakewell Britain’s Foremost Livestock Breeder will be available from mid May 2025 for £25, plus £4 post & packing inland UK. It has been written by New Dishley Society members. It contains, inter alia, much newly researched material on the Bakewell family, their farming provenance, the distribution of his famous animals and his bankruptcy.
It is hardback format, illustrated, and will be about 340 pages.
Copies can be purchased at the lecture and other local events.
Apply to ndssecretary@gmail.com for lecture tickets and or book orders, or to the Secretary, 28 Wilfred Place, Ashby de la Zouch, Leics LE65 2GW. Please include your name, address with postcode, and email.
For more information about Robert Bakewell see our post here
