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YouTube videosThanks to William Tingle's skills with a drone we can share a bird's eye view of St Mary's church and churchyard (N.B. no sound).
Three Crowns in May 2016Isobel Parr took some video of the Three Crowns in May 2016, before a major 'revamp'.
The discovery and reburial of a human skull in WymeswoldIn a video commissioned by Honouring the Ancient Dead Bob Trubshaw recounts how a human skull was discovered during the building of Manor Court, Wymeswold – and the dilemma this caused. A Leicestershire reburial before Honouring the Ancient Dead. (See also this article.)
1990s Wymeswold pantomimesDuring the 1990s four pantomimes were performed in Wymeswold:
Chris Kirk's VHS tapes of three of these pantomimes have been digitised by Timeless Moments Ltd and uploaded to YouTube. Click on the links above to watch them. (Note that because of copyright problems associated with the music used it is not possible to find these videos using YouTube's 'search' function. The only way to find them is to click on the links above.) Thanks to Nick Shaw, Jackie James and John Harrison for enabling Cinderella to be digitised. Thanks to Jackie for loaning programmes. After a break Aladdin in Wymeswold was staged during January 2006 and Robin Hood and the Babes of Wymeswold in January 2008. Nick Hando kindly provided scans of the programmes for both of these and Nick Shaw (who produced them) has sent various computer files relating to the publicity. The WHO has DVDs of Aladdin and Robin Hood but have not yet uploaded to YouTube.
Bob Trubshaw's YouTube videos about Wolds historyPugin's Radical Restoration of St Mary's Wymeswold Why Wymeswold church's 1830s restoration was a controversial 'trend setter'.Wymeswold around 1900 A selection of Philip Brown's photographs of Wymeswold taken about 1890 to the 1920s. The Origins of the Leicestershire Wolds Why is Wymeswold like it is? A look at the Anglo-Saxon origins of the Wolds. Ringed Horizons: Neolithic, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon ritual sites as 'theatres' Includes a mention for a harrow site to the east of Burton on the Wolds. Three Queens, Three Kings and the Durham Ox - drovers' inns in Leics and Lincs Includes the former Durham Ox at Six Hills. Goodbye Belvoir Angels, Hello Soul Effigies Why the so-called 'Belvoir angels' on Charnwood slate gravestones aren't from the Vale of Belvoir. And aren't angels either. Alabaster, gypsum and plaster Comparing the 'plaster pits' at Burton on the Wolds with those in Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire. Anglo-Saxon boundary shrines Are places such as Hoton, Hose and Wysall evidence for pre-christian boundary shrines? The evidence for an Anglo-Saxon horse cult The evidence for an Anglo-Saxon horse cult revealed at the cemetery by the Fosse Way at Willoughby on the Wolds. Roman roads in north-east Leicestershire The most important of the Roman roads, after the Fosse Way, is the so-called Salters Way running from Barrow on Soar to Six Hills and on to Goadby Marwood. Salt ways in Leicestershire A follow-on to the Roman roads video which looks at the medieval salt ways – which could have originated in the Neolithic. Lots more videos, mostly about Leicestershire and adjoining counties, on Bob Trubshaw's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@BobTrubshaw
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