Culture Archive
(October 2015)

1 October 2015

Happy birthday Elysium Gallery

As they celebrate their first year in business at The Old Methodist Chapel, Branston. What an unforgettable year for the gallery – they opened their doors to the general public last October and since then it’s never stopped. Partner Peter Segasby designed and painted one of the Lincoln Barons, Eustace de Vesci, Number 21 on Read more…

Book news and reviews – October 2015

Lincoln based author and former RAF Wing Commander Peter Jacobs has recently published Setting France Ablaze. During the summer of 1940, as Britain fought alone for its survival, Winston Churchill instructed the newly formed and clandestine Special Operations Executive to ‘set Europe ablaze’. Here, Jacobs describes the extraordinary contribution to the Allied war effort made Read more…

Following the beat of a different drum

In a 50-year career, Gilson Lavis has provided the beat for some of the biggest names in popular music: from Chuck Berry to Dusty Springfield, with chart-topping band Squeeze and for the past two decades with national treasure Jools Holland. His drumming still makes him happy, but the discovery five years ago that he could Read more…