Heritage Archive
(November 2011)

1 November 2011

Spalding springs surprises

For many people the town conjures up images of fields bursting with vegetables, food processing factories and a major reliance on migrant labour – but that’s not the full story. However, with twenty per cent of the food on our tables touching Spalding at some point – either by being grown or raised locally, processed Read more…

The essence of ‘brand’ Newark

Action is being taken to ensure the market town’s fantastic potential as a great place to live, work and play doesn’t go unnoticed! Business leaders are out to raise the town’s profile through their latest initiative, ‘Brand Newark’. The ultimate aim is that no one, especially those capable of driving up Newark’s wealth and creating Read more…

Green turf of Appleby graces Olympic Stadium

With the London 2012 Olympic Games less than one year away, one North Lincolnshire business has played a major part in getting the new main stadium ready to host the ‘greatest show on earth’ next summer. County Turf, based in Appleby, near Scunthorpe, was awarded the contract to custom grow the sports greenscape turf for Read more…

The Blackpool of the east coast

It is unclear exactly where the name of Skegness came from. Some believe it took its name from Skeggi (meaning bearded one), one of the vikings who established the original settlement to the east of the current town which was washed away by the sea in the early sixteenth century. Others, however, think it was Read more…

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO and two bars, DFC

Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, one of Bomber Command’s most courageous and fearless leaders of World War II, after completing 102 missions, was awarded the Victoria Cross in July 1944 – one of only thirty-two airmen to win the medal for an extended period of outstanding effort and sustained courage, rather than for a single act Read more…

Out and about with Lincs FM

The staff at Lincs FM never miss a chance to get down to the shops and October has given John Marshall the chance to check out the newly refurbished Marks and Spencer store on the High Street in Lincoln. John gave listeners the chance to win their share of £1000 worth of gift vouchers in Read more…

Saving the woodland which could save us

Folklore, food and shelter of the common man could be found among the birch and oak of thirteenth-century British woodland. Survival relied on this woodland and the land was treated with such importance that, in 1271, King Henry III issued the Charter of the Forest which granted common man ownership of the nation’s woodland and Read more…

Beside the seaside

As caravan parks and camping sites close up after the busy season and tourist attractions say goodbye to their summer, Lincolnshire’s coastal areas are preparing themselves for the quieter winter period. Grimsby and its near neighbour Cleethorpes are no exception – but these north east Lincolnshire towns still have lots on offer to attract regular Read more…

Lincolnshire locals return

At the end of each year hundreds of locals born in Lincolnshire return to the coastline. But it’s not humans desperate for a cold swim: it’s the Atlantic grey seal. The seals come in their hundreds to the beach at Donna Nook to form birthing colonies called rookeries. Donna Nook is halfway between Mablethorpe and Read more…

Put on your dancing shoes

Do you think dancing is just for the young, fit and mobile? Then think again. The not-for-profit organisation Lincolnshire Dance has been challenging this kind of stereotype for years, gradually making dance more accessible to everybody in the county. Since Lincolnshire Dance was launched in 2000, it has worked to provide a platform for people Read more…