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 Branston, the Church c1955 (ref. B512001) | The village lost its medieval church to bombs in World War II and has expanded much since the War, partly due to Lincoln's proximity and partly to the RAF. In this view we look past the Horse and Jockey pub towards the south of the village; the church is beyond the high tree on the left. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Doddington, Church 1906 (ref. 55117) | Doddington receives many visitors, for Doddington Hall, although privately owned, is often open to the public. Immediately north-east of the Hall is St Peter's Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out here and there, particularly in the west tower. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Gainsborough, Market Place c1955 (ref. G145009) | Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire. A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Gainsborough, Market Place 1955 (ref. G145014) | Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire. A medieval market town, its present Town Hall only dates from 1891, seen here before the tepid 1956 Neo-Georgian facade was added with shops to the ground floor. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Gainsborough, Silver Street c1950 (ref. G145008) | Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery works swept away along with most of the warehouses in recent years. Silver Street, now pedestrianised, retains most of its old character, however. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Gainsborough, Old Hall c1955 (ref. G145002) | The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing. Here we see the great castle-like north- east corner tower and, to the right, the Great Hall's oriel bay window and the (now glazed) cupola to vent the hall's former open fire. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Gainsborough, the Old Hall c1955 (ref. G145001) | From the south you can see the Hall's plan clearly, with the central Great Hall behind the three timber-framed gables of Hickman's 1597 stair and corridor addition. The private apartments were in the right wing, and the lodgings or guest range in the left. The Hall, now well cared for, spent centuries in decay, and was once a factory and tenements. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Silver Street c1950 (ref. L49011) | Lincoln suffered a lot of demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, including No 12 on the far left, now drab 1970s offices, and the buildings beyond which made way for the Stonebow Centre shopping mall of 1981. At the far right is a rather good Venetian Revival building of 1873. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Silver Street c1950 (ref. L49027) | Almost all went on the right, in sequence: the Stonebow Centre, then a five storey office block replacing the tall Italianate building with urn finials, and then beyond is now the Silvergate Centre. More survives on the left: the former Courts department store, Neo-Georgian of 1922, and beyond the faience-fronted Pierre-Victoire. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Stone Bow c1950 (ref. L49010) | This view looks towards the Stonebow from the High Street, with the former Courts store on the left still surviving. The shops on the right were replaced by awful 1960s buildings with coloured panels under the windows. In Silver Street, Battles, next to Stonebow, has also gone. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Guildhall 1890 (ref. 25658) | This wonderful atmospheric view looks through Stonebow into the continuation of High Street which follows the line of the Roman road to London, later known as Ermine Street. To the right is the grandiose Italianate bank of 1883 by the noted architect John Gibson, now the Natwest Bank; its fine banking hall has recently been very well restored. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, the Guildhall 1890 (ref. 25657) | We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city. The buildings visible through the main archway all went after World War I; then, prestige and chain stores such as Burtons and Lincoln's own department stores congregated in the area between Stonebow and The Strait. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Stonebow 1901 (ref. 46773) | The Hepworths shop in photograph No 25657 was taken over by a local bank and given a splendidly bulbous and fruity Flemish-style ground floor soon after 1890. Indeed, in 1924 the bank liked the style so much it demolished the building on the far left and added a further bay in the same style. Later the Midland Bank, it is now the HSBC. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Stonebow c1955 (ref. L49115) | This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520. At the right, on the roof, is the Mote Bell, one of the oldest in England, which has since 1371 rung to summon the city council to the Guildhall. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Stonebow c1950 (ref. L49021) | This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520. At the right, on the roof, is the Mote Bell, one of the oldest in England, which has since 1371 rung to summon the city council to the Guildhall. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, the Cathedral c1965 (ref. L49232) | Opposite are the Assize Courts by Robert Smirke. Dating from 1823, they are in a pallid and unconvincing Gothick, its symmetry giving away the fact that Smirke was not designing in his normal Neo-Classical style. At the left is the corner of John Carr of York's Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle's Gothic architecture. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Stonebow c1955 (ref. L49120) | The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar's. The mock timber-framing of Woolworths, built in 1923, replaced some good Georgian town houses, and has now gone in its turn. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Castle Hill 1906 (ref. 55115a) | This view looks from in front of Exchequer Gate towards the Castle. The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond, and even more so with the austere and precise Judge's Lodgings of 1810 in pale stock brick. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, High Street c1965 (ref. L49215) | The towering and somewhat two-dimensional timbered front of Woolworths and the 1907 Perpendicular Gothic-style Mac Fisheries (a chain long departed from our high streets) were recently demolished to make way for the High Street facade to the Waterside shopping centre, a large and successful 1990s scheme fronting Waterside North. The High Street is now pedestrianised. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Lincoln, Bailgate c1955 (ref. L49112) | Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch. This was built in the 3rd century AD and is still partly standing, although it has had to be rebuilt several times when vehicles misjudged its height. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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