Heritage Archive
(July 2019)

30 July 2019

Streets ahead for independent businesses

The market town offers a unique visitor experience, finds Melanie Burton, with historical features preserved and an ‘air of independents’ to its retail offer. When you have a diverse range of independent businesses and retailers such as Brigg can boast, you don’t need big High Street names in the town centre to attract footfall. It Read more…

Traders’ Tokens A is for Alford

This month we launch a new series by Colin Smale which traces the history of 17th-century currency in Lincolnshire. They were mostly made of copper but some were made of brass. If the trader fancied having a heart-shaped token, or a diamond shaped one, these could be custom made… If you could have a coin Read more…

1 July 2019

Making the most of city life

Lincoln is regarded as one of England’s most vibrant and historic cities. Glynis Fox finds it brimming with life and continuously adapting to an ever changing economic and social landscape. But the face of the city centre is changing at a rate of knots as regeneration and renovation projects aimed at improving the visitor experience Read more…

Super size success

Record-breaking vegetable grower Bernard Lavery speaks with Kate Chapman about breeding prize-winning seeds and helping a sheikh realise his dream. When Bernard Lavery established his own nursery and set up his own seed company he never dreamt what big things it would lead to – and big things they were indeed. With a passion for Read more…

Lincolnshire Writers

Alfred, Lord Tennyson is probably the best known Lincolnshire writer but in this issue Alan Middleton takes a look at two popular Lincolnshire authors of the 20th/21st century. Colin Dexter was born in Stamford in 1930 and attended schools in the town. After completing his National Service he read Classics at Christ’s College Cambridge, graduating Read more…

The decline of village cricket and the Lincolnshire club bucking the trend

A quintessentially English pastime, village cricket was once the Sunday activity of choice for men all over the country. The village green would be lovingly tended from April to September as fathers, uncles, brothers and sons walked out to the crease up and down the country. But in recent times the ECB (England and Wales Read more…

Solvitur ambulando

1st June 2019 – at the limits of Earth, at the extremity of Heaven, by Maxim Griffin. Rain. I’d just got back in from the night’s work – the dogs were ready and the children needed a blast – just after 7am. By twenty past we are all in the car, my wife at the Read more…

Award winning village puts on a show

Exciting times are on the cards this year for the quintessential Lincolnshire village of Heckington as a decade of hard work comes together and it marks another major milestone in its history, says Melanie Burton. Redevelopment work is finally complete on the site of its historic eight-sailed windmill, the only working one in the world, Read more…

A Van Gogh in Lincoln

Everyone knows about famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh and his younger brother Theo, but not so many are aware that they had another brother, Cor, who worked in Lincoln during the late 1880s. Chris Schoeman unfolds his story. Cor was born on 17th May 1867 in the North Brabant town of Zundert, in a Read more…

Elegant town on the Welland

With a long and rich heritage, a Jacobean and Georgian style town centre and little shops tucked down back alleys, there is no wonder that Stamford is described as ‘the best looking town in Britain.’ It has again been named one of the best places to live in Britain by The Sunday Times – making Read more…