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Grantham Town and City Memories
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Grantham Town and City Memories
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Lincoln Town Walk Guide
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Gatehouse.
As a child I spent many happy holidays in Denton. My Grandparents lived in the right-hand side of the gatehouse; their names were James and Jane Howell. He was a gardener at the Hall. I remember at the age of about five years old, rushing out to open the big gates for horses or vehicles to come through on their way to the Hall. When my Grandfather retired, they went to live in one of the houses that were set back from the road, halfway down the village street. Later Gran and one of her daughters lived in the almshouses in the park. At that time I had to stay with them for some weeks, owing to illness at home. I ...read more here
A memory of Denton contributed by Anne Greaves
Evacuee During World War 2
I was privately evacuated to Croxton Kerrial with my sister in 1940, we were billeted in a cottage named Woodbine Cottage, this was next to the Bakery. We attended the village school, I still remember some of the children's names that attended the school, my sister and I had quite a happy time in Croxton Kerrial. I have been told by my sister who revisited some years ago that Woodbine Cottage is no more. I was in the choir at the church. When I became aged 11 I atttended the school at Bottisford. If there is anyone who was at the village school during 1940 I would be only to pleased to hear from them. I use to go down to ...read more here
A memory of Croxton Kerrial contributed by Keneth Harris
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My time in Branston Hall Hospital
I was a patient in Branston Hall Hospital in 1964/65. I was admitted to the hopital after being discharged from the WRAF. Mr Wilkinson was one of the senior doctors and Mr Goddard was the sister in charge. Jock was there too and so was my guardian angel Barbara who did any shopping I needed. The staff were great. I was a long way from home and the staff and my fellow patients made sure I did not feel too home sick. Two of the patients I recall was a 21 year old Linda Short and Audrey Jordan married to a policeman called Pat. My name then was Ellen Longmore and I came from Larne Co. Antrim
A memory of Branston contributed by ELLEN HUNTER
Extracts From Grantham & Lincolnshire books
During the First World War, two enormous army camps were
situated within two miles of the town, and in 1915 the Machine
Gun Corps was founded in Harrowby Camp. There are plaques
recalling this, and the Corps standard is laid up in the church. (The
Corps was nicknamed ‘the suicide club’ as they suffered over 62,000
casualties). The church also boasts a superb ring of 10 bells; the
Society of Change Ringers of St Wulfram’s was founded in 1781, and
is the town’s oldest club.
Across narrow Church Street, formerly Alms Lane, is the nearby
King’s School; it was re-founded by Bishop Foxe in 1528, although
there is an earlier reference to it in 1329. The Old School, now used
as the school library, dates back to the very early 16th century, and
among its pupils were Sir Isaac Newton and William Cecil, later
Lord Burghley, the great advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He later built
Burghley House just south of Stamford. Isaac Newton was fond of
carving his initials, sun dials or even his name on walls, and his name
can be seen on one of the window sills in the Old School. This boys’
school is still a grammar school as it was in the early 1500s, but Latin
grammar is not now one of its subjects. The school was one of several
endowed by Bishop Foxe, a local man - he was born in the nearby
village of Ropsley. Bishop Foxe was appointed Bishop of Winchester
in 1501; he died in 1528, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral.
An extract from from"Grantham Town and City Memories".
Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King’s School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school. This range is now the library and was, as a plaque informs us, where Isaac Newton was a pupil in the 1650s. No 1 on the right, a good 18th-century stone front, is now a Centre for Industrial Studies.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King’s School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school. This range is now the library and was, as a plaque informs us, where Isaac Newton was a pupil in the 1650s. No 1 on the right, a good 18th-century stone front, is now a Centre for Industrial Studies.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven. We start in the Market Place of Grantham, a town of 30,000 whose medieval wealth was based on wool from the sheep grazing the Kesteven fields. Later an industrial town, it retains much of its Georgian and Victorian brick rebuilding of what had been a stone town.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
The Angel Hotel is a remarkable late 15th-century stone-built inn, rebuilt on the site of a Knights Templar hostel where King John had held court in 1213; in this building Richard III signed the Duke of Buckingham’s death warrant. The central archway with its oriel window above led into the inn yard, where there is a long brick range dated 1776.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".