Heritage Archive
(September 2018)

1 September 2018

Heart of the Fens

Spalding has long been famous as the centre of the UK’s bulb and flower industry. Melanie Burton discovers a town that continues to grow in confidence. Its annual tulip parade, which took place every May from 1959, was a major tourist attraction bringing in more than 100,000 visitors at its peak. But by 2012 fewer Read more…

Exciting plans for Sleaford

Revival is the key word for the historic south Lincolnshire market town this year, finds Melanie Burton, with major investment, regeneration plans and improved leisure facilities all on the cards. Plans to revitalise the Heart of Sleaford have been given the go-ahead which could see the provision of a cinema and associated areas of public Read more…

Luxury relaxation just over the border

Katrina Burrill and Claire Weeks visited the Spa at Ye Olde Bell in Barnby Moor to see how their first year has been for the team. The Spa at Ye Olde Bell sits within the grounds of the award-winning hotel and restaurant. It opened in June 2017 and their first year has provided the team Read more…

New gateway to the Coastal Country Park

An eager group had already gathered when, last month, the doors were opened to the general public at the coast’s newest attraction: The North Sea Observatory at Chapel Point. Caroline Bingham was there to find out more. The iconic building is the first purpose-built marine observatory in the UK and its dramatic architecture commands a Read more…

Solvitur ambulando – It is solved by walking

3rd August: Hot, still, by Maxim Griffin. No let up in this heatwave. Hosepipe bans and moor fires elsewhere in the country, Lincolnshire curls and crackles into harvest time. Dusty, hot days on top of the Wolds – combines kick up plumes of debris off every field; in some places, the ploughing has even begun. Read more…

A creative community

The small market town of Alford, at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, is en-route to the East Coast and for those people who take the time to stop and explore, it is almost an Aladdin’s Cave of things to see and do, writes Melanie Burton. Though it has a range of small shops and Read more…

In search of slumber

Caroline Bingham and guest visited Eden Hall, where sleep inducing treatments and a meditation class offered new insights into de-stressing. The award-winning day spa, located just off the A46 a few minutes south of Newark, has continued to win accolades from guests and peers; from Best Spa in the Food and Hospitality Awards for 2018 Read more…