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Two sides of the law: ‘Tanky’ Smith and James Hawker
9 July @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Speaker – Mark Startin
LRFHS member Mark is a local historian with a special interest in Oadby and Wigston. Find out more about the lives of Francis ‘Tanky’ Smith, Leicester’s renowned Victorian detective, and James Hawker, a member of Oadby’s school board and a parish councillor but whose grave has the epitaph ‘I Will Poach Til I Die.’
Doors open at 7:00 pm for a 7:30 start. Tea and coffee available plus CD/book stall.
