Heritage Archive
(February 2012)

1 February 2012

A town with a plan

A major initiative, launched to help re-establish Market Rasen as a thriving Lincolnshire market town, looks set to help make 2012 a good year for both residents and businesses in the area. Shopping, leisure, business, education and transport are just some of the topics that will be addressed under the new Market Rasen Neighbourhood Plan, Read more…

A centre for crafts

Alford is known for its craft market, fine working windmill and its connections to American history. The market town is also home to what is reputedly the largest thatched house in England. Alison Sandilands had a look around… I stopped off for a hearty Lincolnshire breakfast at a quaint cafe in the Market Place before Read more…

Preserving the heritage of ‘Mr Fixits’

Stepping through the door of Chain Bridge Forge, Spalding’s only remaining blacksmith’s workshop, is like being transported back in time 200 years. Unless you know it’s there the small brick building, nestling alongside the River Welland, is easy to miss. Steeped in history, Chain Bridge was one of thirteen forges in the town and dates Read more…

Tribute could help tourism

As the country continues to discuss the rights and wrongs of the new film The Iron Lady, about the life of former Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, her home town of Grantham is debating whether more should be done to honour its links with its most famous daughter. Currently, all that there is in the Read more…

Archaeologist with a passion for the ordinary

Promoting two new books, writing another, fitting in interviews, television and radio appearances as well as looking after his farm is all in a day’s retirement for archaeologist Francis Pryor. A familiar face to many, as one of the experts on Channel 4’s Time Team, he is also the archaeologist who discovered Flag Fen, near Read more…