Heritage Archive
(March 2017)

1 March 2017

City surges ahead

Excitement is growing throughout Lincoln as major redevelopment work in all corners of the city takes shape. Activity around the Central Market and City Square is progressing well and the proposed development at St Marks has reached the planning application stage. Coupled with the fact that ambitious plans are in the pipeline to improve the Read more…

Many facets of Horncastle

The quintessential thriving market town is doing its best to shake off the “antiques capital of Lincolnshire” label that it has earned over the years and show that there is more to it than collectibles. Being set in the heart of the county on the edge of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds and equal distance from Read more…

Vocally versatile

When her husband’s job took her family to America for two years Liz Drury never dreamt she’d be returning to Lincolnshire with a new career as a voiceover artist. Liz, who previously worked on a local TV station, decided to put her spare time in Maryland to good use and completed some courses at a Read more…

25 years young

Lincolnshire’s most listened to radio station Lincs FM is celebrating a special anniversary this month. It was on 1st March 1992 that Lincs FM first started broadcasting to Lincolnshire and Newark – as the jingles sang at the time ‘from the Humber to the Wash’ – and twenty-five years on it is still as popular Read more…

Lincoln Horse Races

The earliest reference to horse racing in Lincoln appears in the Register of Acts of Lincoln Corporation dated February 1597, which reads ‘the Mayor’s charges for a scaffold at the horse race to be allowed’. The scaffold, which was the first crude grandstand, was the type of structure from which King James I stood to Read more…