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Family Fortunes: The Winstanleys and Braunstone – historic talk

Fri 19 Sep 25
Fri 19 Sep:2pm – 3pm ; Free Entry. St Anne's Church Hall, 89 Letchworth Road, Leicester LE3 6FN Heritage Open Day: Dr Susan Barton will deliver a lecture on 'Family Fortunes: Braunstone, the Civil War and the Winstanleys', as featured in her new book. Join Dr Susan Barton as she explores how a momentous national event, the Civil War of 1642 to 1651, had a lasting local impact. The Royalist Hastings family had been Lords of the Manor since Medieval times but, as a consequence of their loyalty to King Charles I, their fortune was lost. Their estate at Braunstone was sold to James Winstanley, a Gray’s Inn lawyer from Lancashire in 1650. In 1776, James’ descendants commissioned Braunstone Hall where the Winstanleys lived until 1926... READ MORE>

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