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Branston memories
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Life in Branston
I was born in Branston in 1948. I grew up there until I was 16 when we moved to Lincoln. There was a waterwheel down one of the country lanes which was very unusual, in as much as that it was horizontal rather than vertical. I believe it is still there today.
My family were quite extensive in the village and everyone knew everyone else. They were alway ready to help each other and were all very friendly.
I could play in the streets with complete safety and without fear.
We would have "Rummage Sales" in the Village Hall on a regular basis and the 1st May was always a treat with dancing ...read more here
Contributed by Alexandra Arnold
Lincolnshire memories
Branston Hall Sanatorium
Invited to the Hall at turn of Year for a 'Cocktail-Party' as escort to a Nurse on Staff, the setting was magnificent and memorable! Moreover, the event and hospitality could not have been bettered for the lit exterior equalled the warmth of the interior....some of the old character of the building came alive that night!
Consequent to this, I returned to Branston Hall a few days later to see my Lady and a courtship developed making me travel seven miles as the crow flies from RAF Waddington, regularly, on foot! We married late 1959 and will celebrate 50 wonderful years in '2009' perhaps returning to that place and grounds we often think of fondly? Branston folk were always kind and ...read more here
A memory of Branston contributed by m cavanagh
The Hump
Just on the other side of the bridge you can see the footpath leading up and over a mound. This mound was built up in preparation for a projected relief road from the Midland Railway station to the Sheepmarket (on the other side of the Meadows). I remember playing around this hump - rolling down the side of it, and running through the pipe which went through the middle of it (where you could have a wonderful time playing with the echo!). The hump was removed in the 1960s after the A1 bypass was opened, and the whole "inner relief road" idea was, thankfully, scrapped!
A memory of Stamford contributed by John Riley
Boyhood in Navenby
This is the village where I was born and grew up. The first shop on the right was my Dad's, a Butcher. This was next to Welbourn's the baker. The other side of Tenters Lane was another Bakers, Marshall's.
The village school then was in Church Lane next to the church and the teachers were Miss True, Mr Wright, Miss Milner, and Mr Powley, the Head. I went to this school and so did my Dad. I believe Mr Powley taught him too.
A memory of Navenby contributed by Graham Dawson
Extracts From Branston & Lincolnshire books
Here we see plenty of donkeys and riders. Note the two portable ramps with iron wheels, which were used to help passengers get in and out of the pleasure boats.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".
‘And then the donkeys! Who can imagine a seaside resort without its herd of gaily caprisoned ‘mokes’? Neddy’s perennial face appears everywhere, surely nowhere better represented than at Skegness’. E A Jackson, ‘Skegness and Neighbourhood : A Handbook for Visitors’ (1883).
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".
Lumley Avenue, with its chestnut trees and wide verges and roadway, is typical of the streets comprising the original grid layout of the Earl of Scarbrough’s 1870s town plan. The parish church stands in Powletts Circus at the far end. The house on the extreme left belonged to G J Crofts, who could look down the street and see customers entering his large drapery shop in Lumley Road; it later became the offices of the Skegness Standard.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".
When the Lion Hotel opened in 1881, the stone lion was placed on the roof above the corner entrance. Across the road James Barlow, ‘family grocer and provision merchant,’ had the biggest food shop in the town; from the open doorway an appetising smell of ground coffee drifted into the street. Rowley’s ironmongery shop was next door. The clock tower, built the year of this photograph, can be seen at the sea end of the main shopping street.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".
When it had become unsafe in 1904, the stone lion on the roof of the Lion Hotel was brought down to stand on the pavement. At the same time, bow windows topped by a cupola replaced the former brickwork over the corner entrance. Traffic was hardly a problem in 1910, and pedestrians wandered all over the carriageway without any worries.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".