Heritage Archive
(October 2019)

21 October 2019

The Mayflower Year in Lincolnshire

Stephen Wade introduces his series of reports on the county’s celebrations of the Mayflower Pilgrims. They left for the New World on 16th September 1620 in a ship 58 feet long and 26 feet wide… There were 150 people on board: some were called ‘Saints’ and some were called ‘Strangers.’ The former went for religious Read more…

20 October 2019

Water skiing is in his blood

He was just two years old when he took up the sport and now Robert Hazelwood has his sights firmly set on becoming a world champion, Kate Chapman reports. The 20-year-old, who lives and trains in Lincoln, already has a raft of junior titles to his name and now, as he prepares to move up Read more…

Hired or fired?

She spends her working life battling it out in the boardroom, but Stamford businesswoman Marianne Rawlins tells Kate Chapman she is hoping she can secure her best deal yet – by winning The Apprentice 2019. The 36-year-old, who runs her own American-based business Bradley Risk Management, is currently one of sixteen budding entrepreneurs battling it Read more…

City is powerhouse of commercial activity

Lincoln is a city that refuses to stand still and its movers and shakers are determined to get it better known by the wider world, as Glynis Fox finds. This is a destination that really does have it all – a fabulous mix of national and independent shops, entrepreneurial new ventures and an ever-expanding educational Read more…

3 October 2019

Raising support for wall repairs

There are ongoing efforts in Horncastle to transform areas of land for the benefit of the whole community and bring the town’s rich past to new life, as Kate Chapman finds. As one of Britain’s oldest towns, Horncastle has a rich and varied history, renowned for its stunning Georgian and Victorian architecture, but it is Read more…

2 October 2019

Grantham benefits from funds for growth

There’s a real buzz around the town, finds Glynis Fox, with the news that it has been named one of 50 “additional” destinations to benefit from the government’s £1 billion future High Streets Fund and a leisure and tourism offer that continues to draw in crowds. If you haven’t visited the town for a while, Read more…

1 October 2019

Supporting 1,000 years of heritage

The Revesby Estate sits in the heart of rural Lincolnshire, close to the market town of Horncastle. Dating back to 1143, it became a private estate in 1539 when King Henry VIII gifted it to his brother-in-law. Its current custodians, the Wiggins-Davies family, can point to 300 years of unbroken family ownership since their ancestor Read more…

Traders’ Tokens B is for Barrow & Barton

In the 17th century, Barton had five tokens associated with it, while Barrow had just one. The two villages are only 2.5 miles apart. In 1086 when the Domesday book was penned they were already thriving communities having a ferry across the Humber, a couple of mills and a market, so there was quite a Read more…

Solvitur ambulando

5th September 2019 – a great swirl of mackerel sky, blustery, by Maxim Griffin Back to school. The summer has been a hectic one. The responsibilities of home life and work life – the six weeks of holidays enforce something of a hiatus on my actions. So it goes. Today my young assistants go back Read more…