Heritage Archive
(May 2015)

1 May 2015

The beach beckons

There’s a real buzz in the air along the coast, as Skegness and its close coastal neighbours gear up for the busiest months of the year. Everyone from hoteliers to shopkeepers, and even the donkeys on the beach, seem to be in an upbeat mood now that the traditional season is underway. The first signs Read more…

LACE Housing is spreading its wings

2015 is turning out to be another very busy year for LACE Housing – leaving staff little time to continue basking in the afterglow of its amazing 50th Anniversary year! With new projects on the drawing board and a firm belief in building on its partnership approach to providing a great range of housing and Read more…

Museum set to open its doors

Excitement is building in the historic market town of Newark-on-Trent as it gets ready to welcome up to 60,000 visitors a year, through a new tourist attraction with national, if not international, significance. Holiday weekends are always busy for businesses and retailers in the town but this year’s May bank holiday weekend will hopefully prove Read more…

A century of the WI

As birthdays go, 100 is an amazing milestone to reach – but that’s not the only special thing about the Women’s Institute (WI), which celebrates its centenary this year. With almost 5,000 members across Lincolnshire and a further 1,400 in Humberside, the group is the UK’s largest women’s voluntary organisation. Females aged eighteen upwards join Read more…

Market Rasen

Situated on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, this busy market town is starting to write the next chapter of its history, after months of hard work which has helped to really put the town on the map. Market Rasen has regularly made the headlines, thanks to the work of MR BIG – a Mary Read more…

Oh sew simple

Sociable sewing and light-hearted learning combine as Lincolnshire Life visits a new dressmaking workshop at Sassy Sewing in Horncastle. Sunday, 2:07pm. From behind the steamed-up windows of a pretty, listed shopfront just off Horncastle’s market square comes the sound of laughter, encouragement and congratulation. Inside, four happy crafters are close to finishing a ‘Coco’ dress, Read more…

When music legends rocked Spalding

When you think of great British rock festivals what springs to mind? Glastonbury undoubtedly, or those staged annually on the Isle of Wight, and in Leeds, or Reading? I bet it’s not Spalding. Before those hugely popular events were first staged, the little fenland market town was blazing a trail in the music world as Read more…

On track with the right links

If you are looking for somewhere to live that has good shopping, great facilities and a forward-thinking community, then the expanding areas of North and South Hykeham will be right up your street. The town of North Hykeham has its own swimming pool and leisure centre and also boasts five parks, three churches and four Read more…

An acid tale…

John George Haigh was born in Stamford in 1909. A fraudster in his early career, he would go on to commit heinous crimes and become known as ‘The Acid Bath Murderer’. Haigh’s parents, John Robert and Emily, were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a very strict Protestant Sect, which advocated an austere lifestyle. John was Read more…