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Gate Burton maps

Historic maps of Gate Burton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Gate Burton maps

Gate Burton map

Historic map of Gate Burton

Lincolnshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Lincolnshire

Gate Burton map

Historic Map of any Gate Burton postcode

Gate Burton maps
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Gate Burton photos

We have no photos of Gate Burton, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Willingham By Stow

Gate Burton books

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Lincolnshire Living Memoires
Paperback
£14

Grantham Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13

Lincoln Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13

Gate Burton books
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Memories of Gate Burton

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Memories

I was born in Upton in 1961 and was brought up and attendent at the infant school there as well as attending Sunday School and being in the church choir for quite a few years. The people I remember are Mrs Gibson the headmistress at Kexby School along with teachers Mrs Garner and Mrs Jones. Then the vicar Mr John Knight... [more]

Shared on 13 January 2009 by John Hornby.

Life on the Farm at Kettlethorpe

We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of the lane leading down to the Farm. Neighbours were Mr and Mrs Button with daughters Glenys and Susan and Mr and Mrs... [more]

Shared on 06 September 2008 by Gillian Emerton.

Growing Up

My father was employed as the farm foreman at Park Farm, Kettlethorpe for several years up until his death in 1960. We lived in the farmhouse down a lane about half a mile from the A57 main road. I went to school at Saxilby, my younger sisters to Newton on Trent. I must have been about 12 years old when we... [more]

Shared on 02 August 2008 by Brian Williamson.

School Days in Newton-on-Trent

I went to school in Newton on Trent when I was 7. The head teacher was Mrs Moore. There was a Big room and a Little Room. The Little Room had a Wendy House...and I remember reading a book about and boy who kept running around a tree until he turned to butter. I never did understand how that happened.
In... [more]

Shared on 06 September 2008 by Gillian Emerton.

Extracts From Gate Burton & Lincolnshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Gate Burton, inspired by Frith photos.

Boston - A History & Celebration

Plans are also under way for economic developments that should benefit the privately owned port of Boston and the people and businesses dependent on it. During 2005 Lincolnshire Development, part of Lincolnshire County Council, prepared a bid for European funding under Objective 2 for the Boston Southern Enterprise Zone in the Marsh Lane area south of the dock. This would fund the construction of a dock link road, and the commissioning... [more]

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Boston - A History & Celebration

On a happy day in August 1916 Alice Oldrid, one of four sisters who then owned the famous drapers shop in Boston, married Alan James Derrick of Redcar on Teesside, a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Reserve Batallion of the Northumberland Fusiliers.

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Boston - A History & Celebration

The direct involvement of the civilian population in the horrors of war might be one of the factors contributing to the decline of religious belief and worship during the 20th century. When the Centenary Methodist Chapel was destroyed by fire on 24 June 1909, the congregation responded magnificently and the new chapel on the site was re-opened in 1911, and is still in use. However since then many churches and chapels... [more]

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