Heritage Archive
(November 2014)

1 November 2014

Eye-catching charms of market town

If you’re passionate about market town shopping, Louth – in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds – has a wealth of retail therapy waiting to be savoured. Allow an extra hour or two to check out the town’s other attractions, or time your visit to coincide with one of Louth’s popular events, and you can expect to Read more…

Tradition and trade at the heart of growth

Although Grantham has gained world recognition as the birthplace of the great and famous – such as Sir Isaac Newton and Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher – much is going on to try to attract visitors to the town for other reasons. Grantham has been described as one of the Midlands’s best-kept secrets, Read more…

Boston’s Big Dig

The people of Boston, Lincolnshire have long campaigned for a bypass to alleviate their traffic problems. The people of Boston, Massachusetts have their own history of highway management issues. It is to be hoped that the solution in Lincolnshire when it comes, if it comes, will be less complicated and less controversial than the US Read more…

Naj follows the call of the screen

He may not have taken the traditional route into acting, but broadcaster, producer and publicist Naj Modak says his other roles have all helped prepare him for life on the big screen. The thirty-seven-year-old, who grew up in Scunthorpe, admits that he’s always yearned to be a performer, but it’s only in recent years that Read more…

Tell Them of Us – a progress report

I can’t believe it is more than a year since I wrote an article about Tell Them of Us, the latest project from Lincolnshire Heritage filmmakers WAG Screen, commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War. The story mainly follows the experiences of the Crowder family from the village of Thimbleby, near Read more…