Heritage Archive
(September 2012)

3 September 2012

Sunshine and showers

The hottest day of summer was followed by a day of stormy showers, but that didn’t stop the visitors coming to this year’s Lincolnshire Show, the county’s big day out. Early estimates put total visitor figures at almost 60,000, according to organisers. This year’s Sports Zone had top billing in the run up to the Read more…

1 September 2012

Bourne feels a boost

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the highly successful London 2012 Olympic Games have served to bring back the feel-good factor in towns and cities up and down the country. And the small South Lincolnshire town of Bourne is reaping the rewards, with traders and businesses reporting an optimistic atmosphere around the town. Work is going Read more…

Honey, I found a new career

As mid-life crises go, taking up apiculture is not the most dangerous divergence that I have heard of, but for Simon Croson his wife Caroline’s birthday gift of a beekeeping course was the start of a whole new direction in life. For an RAF engineer turned beekeeper, I suppose the theory and practice of keeping Read more…

A town that pulls together

The London 2012 Olympic Games which united the country and proved that community spirit is still very much alive, but we can find that spirit much closer to home. Residents and shopkeepers in bustling Horncastle already knew that, following the severe rainy weather experienced back in June and July when areas of the town were Read more…

A trip down memory lane with Lincolnshire Coop

The buying of coal was a real problem for working people in the nineteenth century. It was difficult to know, just by looking at it, whether you were getting the quality of coal you had paid for; difficult to be sure you were getting the full eight stone to the cwt and people regularly stood Read more…

Always a farm favourite

As round-the-clock harvesting continues on farms across the county, Lincolnshire’s most listened to radio station Lincs FM is keeping our hard working farmers company both day and night. Bringing in the crops is a twenty-four-hour business this time of the year, especially given the weather conditions we’ve had already – from drought to floods! Director Read more…

A longwool story

Preserving the rare breeds of England has often been associated with the elder statesmen of the farming community but there is a new generation of enthusiasts coming through and we have one of the youngest here in Lincolnshire. James Chantry of Walkerith, Gainsborough first began to breed sheep as a young boy but it was Read more…

County Olympians experience the pain and the glory

From a gloriously eccentric Opening Ceremony to the inspiration of Super Saturday, iconic images of the Greatest Show on Earth showcased a country united in the joy of sport. For two wonderful weeks, these trivial athletic pursuits became the most important and thrilling spectacle in the world. Every emotion was played out in the faces Read more…

Best kept Caistor

A North Lincolnshire market town is eager to tempt more people to discover its charms and enjoy the warm welcome it offers to both visitors and locals. Wolds gem Caistor has already been named best small market town in the Community Lincs-run Best Kept Village and Small Towns competition for three years on the trot Read more…

Fashion with passion

Caroline Bingham went to Louth to meet an international couturier who has ambitions to re-establish manufacturing in the town. George Adesegun’s route to Louth has been via his birthplace, London, and his upbringing with his grandparents in Lagos, Nigeria. “I grew up in Africa, mindful that clothes are to be appreciated and valued. We did Read more…