Heritage Archive
(September 2017)

1 September 2017

Town is southern belle

The bustling market town of Spalding is looked upon as the heart of Fenland Lincolnshire and with a wealth of tourist attractions, shops and diverse businesses, it has much to offer not only visitors and shoppers but its own residents as well. As the largest market town in the south of the county, it has Read more…

Solvitur ambulando –  it is solved by walking

Walk 6: Friday 4th–Saturday 5th August – more or less cloudless, Theddlethorpe to Mablethorpe. After getting dropped off I haul my small but heavy pack through the dunes to the beach. It’s greener than expected – samphire time. There are riders out too, lots of them. I count at least a dozen and there are Read more…

David Robinson OBE 1927-2017

There are several of us at Lincolnshire Life, myself included, who have completed two or three decades of service with the magazine. All of us, though, hold in awe and are never likely to match the contribution made by David Robinson who, we were sad to learn, passed away last month aged 89. On his Read more…

Sporting hits and memories

The new football season is well underway and at Lincs FM they are hoping for another successful year for local sides. Last season of course saw Lincoln City promoted back to the football league, six years after suffering the cruel blow of relegation, while Scunthorpe United came close to promotion to the Championship, topping League Read more…

Initiatives make difference

The thriving south Lincolnshire town of Sleaford is a classic county market town where specialist businesses are vital to the community. There is a significantly higher proportion of independent retailers among its varied mix of shops than most towns, with small local traders occupying more than three-quarters of all available units in the town centre. Read more…

Telling the story of aviation heritage

The county’s association with military aviation began during WW1 and by the end of WW2 there were forty-nine active airfields in Lincolnshire. We invite you to tour some of these sites, visitor centres and museums which tell the stories of the squadrons and their crews. METHERINGHAM AIRFIELD VISITOR CENTRE In 1942 600 acres of farmland Read more…

Rebuilding a ‘wooden wonder’

To Fly – To Educate – To Remember Exhibiting in the Heritage Hangar at Scampton Airshow will be The People’s Mosquito, an organisation with the objective of returning a de Havilland DH.98 to British skies. Lincolnshire Life spoke to Bill Ramsey, operations director of The People’s Mosquito and former Wing Commander of the Red Arrows, Read more…

Volunteers are the wind under the wings of IBCC

Since the International Bomber Command Centre initiative was launched in 2011, more than 600 volunteers from nine different countries have been recruited to bring their skills and talents to almost every aspect of the project. They have come from all different walks of life, have a variety of expertise and hobbies and cross the age Read more…

One family’s tribute to Bomber Command

Recreating the sounds and atmosphere of a wartime airfield has been the mission of the Panton family since they opened Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in 1988. While the sound of the Merlin engines of Lancaster NX611 ‘Just Jane’ are heard on taxy runs made throughout the summer, the longer term aim is to return her Read more…

Lincolnshire in World War One: Bastion in the Air

Lincolnshire’s association with military flight began more than a century ago and next year exhibitions in two locations will recreate a Royal Flying Corps Airfield and tell the county’s story of aviation development, production and defence. Between 5th April and 30th August 2018 the World War Two ‘Dambuster’ Hangar which is part of the Heritage Read more…