Lifestyle Archive
(June 2025)

12 June 2025

Cool couture

Go with the flow this summer as the temperatures rise. These forgiving styles will be perfect for relaxing at an evening BBQ, or travel well in a suitcase for your holiday wardrobe.

Lincoln Fine Art Auction

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer. April’s Lincoln Fine Art Auction consisted of 356 lots, with 95% sold. The auction set sail with Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore’s oil on canvas, Masted ships setting out to open waters, as Lot 1, doubling its pre-auction estimate as the hammer fell at £2,000. Stanfield Moore was Read more…

Early summer haze and blaze

Steffie Shields explores Home Farm garden opening for the National Garden Scheme. June is a glorious month to open a private garden for charity. This time last year, I was fortunate to be invited to photograph a superb English landscape garden in all its early summer splendour. Home Farm is situated on the Rutland border, Read more…

A classic Georgian country home

The Manor House in Sibsey is one of the area’s most beautiful 19th-century period properties, set in an idyllic rural location with gorgeous grounds. Standing in approximately six acres of impeccably maintained grounds, The Manor House in Sibsey is a stunning Grade II-listed former farmstead dating back to the early 19th century. This classic Georgian Read more…

ULHT Charity Ball

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust held a Charity Ball at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Lincoln to raise funds for extras not covered by NHS budgets. Guests enjoyed a three-course meal, disco and live music by Pelham Road, as well as a raffle and silent auction. If you wish to order a copy of a photograph Read more…

Vintage Speed Trials under starter’s orders

The Grimsthorpe Castle estate will once again provide the backdrop for this fun-fuelled day, evoking the nostalgia of pre-war automobiles and motor racing. The date for your diary is Saturday 5th July and tickets are now on sale through the Vintage Speed Trials website. Organisers Mel Hart, Colin Faulkner and Ian Bancroft have already received Read more…