Lifestyle Archive
(April 2017)

1 April 2017

Duckworth brings Jaguar back to Boston

Around 1,000 people joined the management and staff of Martin Duckworth Ltd to celebrate the launch of the fantastic new facility, which provides a remarkable new gateway at the A16 entrance to Boston. Customers old and new, neighbours, friends, followers on the Duckworth social media pages, and even those who heard it on the Boston Read more…

Miss Lincolnshire 2017

The finals of Miss Lincolnshire 2017 were held at Home, Lincoln. Miss Lincolnshire Life Popularity was decided by a public vote, while the judging panel on the night had to make the difficult choices after interview and catwalk rounds. Finally the winners were announced: Miss Lincolnshire 2017 – Daisy Pope 2nd – Alice Bluff 3rd Read more…

City centre luxury with vistas and vitality

The bustling heart of Lincoln’s Brayford waterfront has witnessed many transformations as its regeneration has melded industrial heritage with contemporary architecture and a vibrant mix of development. The newest development to take its place on the skyline is One The Brayford on the north shore of the Pool, the conversion of the existing historic Mill Read more…

Dappled daffodils

Steffie Shields explores Gill & David Boldy’s Firsby Manor Garden. In 1834 Thomas Allen, a historian, described Firsby as ‘an obscure place on the north side of the River Limb (sic) between Wainfleet and Spilsby, being five miles distant from each’. The region’s former peat and silty marsh wetlands were transformed by drainage into flat Read more…

Lincoln Fine Art Auction

The Lincoln Fine Art Auction held at Golding Young & Mawer’s Lincoln Auction Rooms in North Hykeham saw a record selling rate, with bidders across Europe and America. The first part of the auction saw a collection of prints by Laurence Stephen Lowry. Demand for Lowry’s work has been consistent since the 1950s but values Read more…

Clothing which epitomises quality and craftsmanship

Inspired by her love of the outdoors and sense of adventure, Jayne Ireland has launched her own fashion label right here in Lincolnshire. Everything produced under her Tom Lane brand is designed and made in Britain to exacting standards, using traditional manufacturing and craftsmanship techniques. This is something Jayne is fiercely proud of and which Read more…

South Wold Point-to-Point, Revesby Park

Crowds flocked to the new track put down by the South Wold for the opening meeting, which took place last month, by kind invitation of the Wiggins-Davies family, for the first time in 40 years at Revesby Park. Owner Milson Robinson, who rode at the old course at Revesby that closed in 1977, made history Read more…