Heritage Archive
(March 2012)

1 March 2012

All ‘news’ for 102.2

Lincolnshire’s most listened to radio station, Lincs FM 102.2 kick-started 2012 with a new Breakfast Show, a fresh website and a mobile phone ‘app’. Sam Kirk has settled in as the new voice of the Breakfast Show, waking up the area. The twenty-five-year-old joined the team having previously worked elsewhere for the Lincs FM Group Read more…

A town with many attractions

We may be living through a period of ‘austerity’ but don’t be fooled – some destinations remain a magnet for new enterprises and expanding businesses. So, if you are tired of tales of retail gloom and doom on the UK’s high streets, it could be time to head for Stamford, once dubbed ‘England’s finest stone Read more…

A look behind the mask

It takes great maturity to be something of a veteran of your sport at the tender age of twenty-one, yet possess enough confidence to switch disciplines less than a year before the biggest opportunity of your career. Frieston cyclist, Katie Colclough has taken everything in her burgeoning stride, and can now view the bigger picture Read more…

Hurrah for Holbeach

It’s an Olympic year of celebrations for the whole of the country, with the Queen’s Jubilee and the London 2012 Games to look forward to, but the festivities are taking on a whole new meaning for this South Lincolnshire town. This year sees the beginning of an ambitious regeneration plan for the Fenland market town, Read more…

A place with important connections

Stephen Wade explores Welton and finds a village with a few surprises and a mystery Lincolnshire has several Weltons: there is Welton-Le-Wold and Welton-in-the-Marsh but this Welton is just a few miles north of Lincoln. The steady flow of drivers on the A15 into Lincoln from the north will always notice the sign for ‘Welton Read more…

Conserving the treasures of Cranwell

Royal Air Force College Cranwell is overtly grand in both appearance and reputation. Members of the Royal Family, Prime Ministers and even Lawrence of Arabia have all graced the corridors. But the work that goes on behind the scenes to uncover and preserve priceless artefacts and heritage is equally as spectacular. Curator Hazel Crozier showed Read more…

A lesson in living history

World War Two is being brought to life for schoolchildren in Lincolnshire and beyond, thanks to the vision and dedication of one couple who have created a mobile museum. With the support of his wife Linda and family, Paul Britchford has finally realised his own lifelong ambition, by creating the We’ll Meet Again museum, which Read more…