Heritage Archive
(December 2014)

1 December 2014

Rasen’s market town heroes

Staying vibrant and attractive to shoppers and visitors is a major challenge for today’s county towns – but one is determined to build on its success. Market Rasen has hit the headlines on many occasions, been visited by shopping guru Mary Portas and shared its experiences with other towns at major conferences. Thankfully that early Read more…

Home town on the right track

2014 has proved to be an interesting and eventful year for the businesses and community of bustling market town Newark. From well-known television stars shooting scenes in various historic spots to discussions nationwide about its major developments, if the town isn’t already on the visitor map, it soon will be. Newark found itself in the Read more…

Nancy’s rise to the Bake Off crown

She’s already enjoyed the sweet taste of success after baking her way to victory on The Great British Bake Off and now Lincolnshire grandmother Nancy Birtwhistle is finding her star is truly on the rise. The sixty-year-old has barely stopped since winning the BBC competition this summer, in which she wowed judges Paul Hollywood and Read more…

Festival will showcase Sleaford

The busy, but small, market town has an ancient history with a number of notable historic buildings still standing, but its focus is very much on its future prosperity. Historically the town’s economy was based upon agriculture and today that remains an important employer. However, Sleaford also possesses a diverse range of manufacturing companies, producing Read more…

Rob takes up the breakfast baton

We all remember those amazing scenes across Lincolnshire two years ago, as the Olympic Torch passed through the county, from torch bearer to torch bearer, cheered on by the waiting crowds. Well, in one way it’s a similar process being Breakfast Show presenter at Lincs FM – you’re handed this precious baton, expected to hold Read more…

Rennie, Rennie and Banks

Draining the East, West and Wildmore Fens north of Boston presented a multitude of challenges for centuries. The driving force behind the eventual solution was our own Sir Joseph Banks, botanical explorer, who spent every autumn at Revesby Abbey on the north edge of the West Fen. And it was the eminent engineer, Sir John Read more…

Waddington’s men and boys of WW1

First to leave, unmarried boys and men: brickyard labourers, brick makers, clay miners who cut the local blue, ironstone quarry workers with their ridge-top rail-line running down to Station Road. These were the chirpy lads who’d swung on railway gates, watched the loading of coal, crops, cattle. The apprentices, wagoner’s boys, plough boys once scrumpers Read more…

Exploring Donington

The South Lincolnshire village, near Spalding, is a large community with a big link to one of the country’s most famous sons. Captain Matthew Flinders, the first person to identify Australia as a continent, was a former pupil at the village’s Thomas Cowley School back in the 1800s and his name is much used in Read more…