Raiders of the Lost Archives

Welcome to our hall of fame. This is a selection of some of our prize possessions – documents, photographs, books, pamphlets and maps (they will all find a place eventually). Here you will be able to see old favourites of ours as well as exciting new acquisitions. New items will be added regularly and past glories will still shine in an ‘album’ of treasures from the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. Follow the link by ‘clicking’ on Other Office Treasures to see what you may have missed!

Added at a time of Remembrance, ninety years after the Armistice, is this Realistic Travels Publishers stereographic photograph of a platoon of the Leicestershire Regiment (either regulars or territorials) 'parading before proceeding to the front line trenches'. The mixture of headgear, including the Cap, winter, service dress, known because of its unmilitary appearance as the 'Gor Blimey' cap, dates the image to the spring or summer of 1915.