Heritage Archive
(January 2016)

1 January 2016

Looking to a hi-tech future

Regeneration will be the name of the game in 2016 for the South Lincolnshire market town of Holbeach. Much-needed infrastructure improvements are on the way, resulting in plans for major housing developments and a new Food Enterprise Zone, which will see an influx of highly skilled workers and allow the area’s agri-food sector to compete Read more…

Town makes shortlist

“Brigg is Best” is a phrase often heard in this small flourishing North Lincolnshire market town but now its reputation has spread far and wide. Being shortlisted as a finalist in the Great British High Street competition at the end of 2015 meant it was put firmly on the retail map and, although it finished Read more…

On the grid for Formula One

Many schoolboys dream of growing up to become a racing driver – but Teddy Wilson is already well on the road to fulfilling his ambition. The fourteen-year-old is the current Super One MSA British IAME Cadet Karting Champion – a title his own racing hero Lewis Hamilton won back in 1996 – and at the Read more…

H. J. H. Dyer A good all-rounder…

Henry James Herbert Dyer was born in Leamington Spa in 1902, the son of a Coop branch manager. He attended Leamington College before going to Keble College, Oxford where he was awarded an MA degree. After Oxford he studied law at Lincoln’s Inn and was called to the bar in 1931. He taught for a Read more…

A bright new year ahead

Celebrations were the order of the day in 2015 for the historically important Georgian and Victorian market town of Caistor and residents are hoping 2016 will be much of the same. With a long-awaited development around the Market Place in the pipeline, some exciting archaeological research projects planned and plenty of events and activities in Read more…

Workers united in Lincolnshire

Making honey fit for a queen. When I went to see John Brewer, the publicity officer for the Lincolnshire Beekeepers’ Association and a member of the Market Rasen Beekeepers’ Association, I was immediately brought up to date with the situation when he informed me that he hadn’t got any! Not at his home at any Read more…