Heritage Archive
(March 2018)

1 March 2018

City growing in prominence

Rising numbers of shoppers and visitors are taking a fresh look at the dramatic difference the latest multimillion-pound investments are making to Lincoln’s streetscape, as Glynis Fox finds out. Regeneration projects, changes on the travel front, new city apartments complemented by commercial space, the arrival of new national brands and brave moves made by local Read more…

Boston’s first Tower guardian

Yeoman Warders – more commonly known as Beefeaters – have been guarding the Tower of London since Tudor times. Chris Clawson, from Lincolnshire, tells Kate Chapman what it means to be the latest to take on the iconic role. Yeoman Warder Clawson, who grew up in Boston, has made the move to the London landmark Read more…

Boost for Bardney

Glynis Fox visits this working village situated just eleven miles from Lincoln that prides itself on being a welcoming, friendly place to all. It is this friendly welcome which will be extended to a new workforce when the new £55 million cracker factory opens there very shortly. The Ryvita factory owned by Associated British Foods Read more…

Solvitur ambulando – It is solved by walking

The Lincolnshire coast in winter can be a bleak prospect, says Maxim Griffin. Walk 12: 1st February 2018 – clear blue sky, turning. Far away from summer and the hustle and colour of the holiday season, the seaside resorts can appear as lonesome outposts that cling to the memories of a golden August – this Read more…

Lost Lincoln Pubs

The Horse and Jockey Inn on Guildhall Street, established around 1828, was demolished together with other adjacent property in 1901, to make way for the erection of the General Post Office five years later. It is one of many public houses from Lincoln’s past now largely forgotten… After an honourable career as a post office, Read more…

Riders with ‘Blood on Board’

Caroline Bingham talks to Paul Bagwell, chairman of LEBBS, the Lincolnshire Emergency Blood Bikes Service. Our television screens give us tense and moving insights into the work of airborne emergency services in programmes such as Air Ambulance ER, An Hour To Save Your Life and Helicopter Heroes but there are unsung voluntary groups around the Read more…

Heralds of Spring

Lincolnshire is home to several varieties of violet, which enrich gardens and countryside. Rosey Norton finds they also make for wonderful decorations, perfumes and flavours. The sweet violet pushes its scented flowers above the cold, dark winter’s ground. The little flower blankets the roadsides and verges with delicate shades of purple, pink and white, with Read more…

Quintessential market town

With evidence of spring everywhere in the picturesque Lincolnshire market town of Horncastle, Glynis Fox discovers local businesses gearing up for the forthcoming tourist season and warmer months ahead. One of those hoping to put a spring into the step of the locals is Jake Whanstall, who opened the doors of his new state-of-the-art gym Read more…