Grainthorpe
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Grantham Town and City Memories
Hardback
Grimsby - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Grantham Town and City Memories
Paperback
Grainthorpe memories
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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
Topliss drapers 1882-1975
I wonder if anyone remembers Topliss, 16 Mercer Row? It was there until 1975 when it was taken over by Boyes. It was probably the last shop in Britain to have a "cash railway" for taking customers' payments to the cashier and returning the change. The money travelled in a hollow wooden ball, like a croquet ball cut in half. There is a photo on The Cash Railway Website. Cash ball systems were generally supreseded by overhead wire or pneumatic tube systems.
A memory of Louth contributed by Andrew Buxton
Extracts From Grainthorpe & Lincolnshire books
Gainsborough was briefly England’s capital in 1013, when the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard, father of King Canute, ruled. He also died and was buried here in February 1014. Here we see the 1891 Town Hall with its tottering facade shored up. A year later, in 1956, it received its present insipid Neo-Georgian frontage.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town’s great medieval past. The mansion of the mighty 15th-century De Burgh family, with a great central hall and long side wings, it is a miracle it survived, having at various times been a prison, a factory and tenements.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Behind a dry stone wall All Saints’ Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village. Its tower dates from the 1760s; the bulk of the remainder was rebuilt in the 1860s, although there is medieval work inside, including the nave arcade.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Moving east off the Limestone Cliff, our route descends towards the clay vale that runs along the western edge of The Wolds. Apart from All Saints’ Church, West Rasen is noted for its 15th-century pack horse bridge which crosses the River Rase, from which the Rasens are named, and which descends from The Wolds to merge with the Ancholme to head north to the River Humber.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds. All Saints’ Church, higher up the village, has a massive Norman tower, and the church is built in the local iron-rich brown limestone. Tealby is on the long-distance waymarked footpath which runs from the Humber to Oakham via Lincoln.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".