Heritage Archive
(May 2013)

1 May 2013

The Spider T: super sloop

With its soaring mast and fluttering red pennant, the super sloop Spider T is a familiar sight at Keadby Lock. When skipper Mal Nicholson took it on, however, it was practically a sunken hulk, holding three feet of water. He knew it was something special though: “It was very Brunelian, that is to say, it Read more…

A fitting memorial to lives lost

During World War II Lincolnshire became known as ‘Bomber County’. The county’s relatively flat, open countryside was home to many airfields from which secret operations were executed using the country’s most successful bomber, the Avro Lancaster. Throughout the war over 25,000 airmen flew from bases across Lincolnshire, on missions that never returned. Those that survived Read more…

Lincoln Catchwater Drain

This is another in a short series of articles aimed at highlighting some of the beautiful and interesting areas around Lincoln that remain relatively unknown to the majority of people. When you discover somewhere new and fall in love with it, the first thing you want to do is tell everyone. Then a little voice Read more…

A common sense approach to Gardeners’ Questions

A hobby which started when she was just a tiny tot has led to a fantastic career as a gardening expert spanning more than forty years, but Daphne Ledward still insists she doesn’t have ‘green fingers’. A regular on Gardeners’ Question Time and numerous other television and radio shows, Daphne now concentrates her time on Read more…

The busy bees of Rand

Their cedar beehives adorn the grounds of Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, the Eden Project, the Lost Gardens of Heligan and, with increasing frequency, rooftops and allotments in our biggest cities. Family business E H Thorne (Beehives) Ltd, of Rand, Lincolnshire, has been manufacturing beekeeping equipment for almost 100 years and is the largest UK business Read more…

Here comes summer

Despite the economic recession continuing to bite, there is an air of optimism running along the East Coast as resorts open up for the new holiday season. The staycation ethos still seems to be very much alive as more people prefer to holiday at home than go abroad and that is good news for the Read more…

Lincolnshire transport heritage

The Lincolnshire Vintage Vehicle Society was founded by a group of local businessmen in 1959 with the aim of preserving local vehicles of historic interest. Former Lincoln Corporation bus number 5, registration VL 1263, was the Society’s first vehicle and this was soon joined by others. Vehicles were initially kept at the Sobraon Barracks on Read more…

The Lincolnshire Show 2013

Come and meet the team from Lincolnshire Life Preparations are well underway for the Lincolnshire Life marquee at this year’s Lincolnshire Show. We love to have the chance to meet in person so many of our readers and customers, so we hope to see you there! The Show will take place on Wednesday 19th and Read more…

Providing the perfect day out

According to the man who knows these things there are three key components to successful corporate entertaining: the view, the catering and the loos! Leaving the second two aside for a moment, at least at The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials the first doesn’t present too many problems, as the corporate marquees would be pushed Read more…