Lifestyle Archive
(May 2017)

1 May 2017

Happy birthday

Visitors to Gainsborough’s Marshall’s Yard shopping centre flocked in their hundreds to celebrate the centre’s 10th birthday and enjoy the glorious heat wave over the weekend of 8th–9th April. The centre kicked off its two day celebration on Saturday with a fantastic Food Festival consisting of 40 food stalls and local crafts. Live cookery demonstrations Read more…

Art In The Barn

The Lincolnshire Artists’ Society held the opening of their Spring Annual Exhibition at the Stable Studios in Doddington Hall Gardens on Friday 14th April. This was a new venue for the Society, who usually show at the Usher Art Gallery and the Sam Scorer in Lincoln. The institution’s roots date back to 1906 and many Read more…

Peter Rhodes showroom officially opens

Star of the silver screen Jim Broadbent was on hand to officially open the new Peter Rhodes showroom in Market Rasen on Friday 24th March. After the cutting of the ribbon ceremony, Jim joined owners, Joyce Rhodes and her daughter Abigail and son in law Roger Clark, meeting with customers and introducing them to the Read more…

Worth the wait

Steffie Shields recommends the pace of nature. After thirty-two years in the Royal Air Force, notching up twenty-two house moves, my husband retired at the millennium. We settled in Welby, in an old orchard once part of the adjacent rectory grounds. Finally, we could put down roots, plant trees and create our own little corner Read more…

From gingerbread to the railways

The history of the Molecey family 1733-1917 This story of a south Lincolnshire family tells of their rise and demise as the owners and operators of Molecey watermill, at its peak the thriving hub of local trade and commerce. The young John Molecey of Market Deeping was 14 when he was apprenticed to Gentell Chapell Read more…