Lifestyle Archive
(May 2026)

15 May 2026

Dioramas

By William Gregory MRICS, Golding Young and Mawer. A collection of over 100 dioramas made quite a scene when they sold at a recent Lincoln auction for over £20,000. Dioramas are a model or picture in three dimensional form and often enclosed in a glazed cabinet. The subject matter tends to recreate interior household scenes, Read more…

A Poet in the Vale

Steffie Shields ponders a historic garden and romantic poet John Clare’s visit to Holywell. A fascination for exploring gardens stems from curiosity. The detective in me loves to solve the mystery of a garden’s essence, when and why it came to be made, its evolution, and who was responsible. How has it escaped decline, and Read more…

14 May 2026

A farmer’s ‘felicitous’ folly

Steffie Shields visits a fascinating garden at Brackenborough Hall, near Louth. In 1907 Frederick W Bennett purchased the Brackenborough estate on the edge of the Wolds. A year earlier, the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey (1906) had been published. Much has changed since, yet this Mr Bennett would be delighted to recognise the views to and Read more…