Allan Burrows (1930-2011) ALAN Burrows was a leading and highly regarded local businessman. Born in Great Ponton he attended the local primary school and then the Boys’ Central School, Hill Avenue, Grantham. After school he served in the RAF before returning to Great Ponton to work with his uncle as a painter and decorator. He […]
Hardy, Oliver – Grantham draper joined Army intelligence
Oliver Hardy (1920-2011) Born in Tindal Road, Grantham, Oliver Hardy was the youngest son of Caroline and Fred Hardy. He attended the National School and the Boys’ Central School, Grantham and in January 1942 married Joan Meadows. On leaving school he went to work at Arthur Chambers as a draper. He joined the Territorial […]
Dawes, Samuel – Head of teacher training college
Samuel Dawes (1915-1981) SOUTHAMPTON-born Samuel Raymond Dawes was educated at Taunton Grammar School and Southampton University where he gained a BSc in mathematics. While teaching maths at Southend-on-Sea and a Quaker school in Reading, he gained a diploma in theology and an MA in education and psychology. Armed with his new qualifications, he came Kesteven […]
Nicholl, Charles – Grantham head was Welsh international
Charles Nicholl (1870-1939) HEADTEACHER at the King’s School, Charles “Boomer” Bowen Nicholl was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University and Llanelli. Nicholl played for Wales on 15occasions during the 1891 and 1896 Home Nations Championships, and was part of the historic 1893 Triple Crown winning team. Nicholl was […]
Round, John – Decorator was a charity fund raiser
John Kelvin Round, (1949-2013) BORN in Grantham, John Round attended Belton Lane Primary School and the Boys’ Central School. He met his wife, Jean, at Grantham College and they married in 1975. Mr Round worked in Leicester for a while and then at Kontak Manufacturing, Grantham. He then worked for his father in the […]
Weatherhogg, William – Grantham’s last Chief Constable
William Weatherhogg (1895-1971) WILLIAM Weatherhog was Grantham’s last Chief Constable, before the borough police was merged into the Lincolnshire Constabulary 1949, after which he retired. He was born in the south of the county and was educated at Spalding Grammar School. He enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1915 and three years later took a […]
Taylor, Pim – Spent 32 years with Grantham Town
Pim Taylor (1925-1977) LESLIE Alfred Taylor, known to all as Pim, was a local footballing legend and never was the term ‘club stalwart’ better deserved. He was a fitter at Aveling Barford, but it was on the sports fields he was best known. Born in Lincoln, he played for Lincoln City as an amateur before […]
Rickards, Trevor – The restoration man
Trevor Rickards (b1956) BORN and educated at Melton Mowbray, on leaving school at 17, he became a graduate trainee manager with supermarket giant Tesco. As part of his provisions training, he was sent to the Grantham store, which was then on St Peter’s Hill. But aged only 21 he made a career change, and began […]
Lockton, Charles – the market man
Charles Lockton (1830-1925) FRUITERER and greengrocer Charles Lockton carried out his business in in Castlegate for 70 years. He began work at Spittlegate Ironworks when he was none years old., whch was founded by Richard Hornsby. He then became a butcher in Brewery Hill, when cattle had to be collected from farms on foot. […]
Neal, Norman – Advertising manager died on active service
Norman Neal (1909-1942) CQMC Norman Percy Neal was killed on active service, the first member of the Grantham Journal staff to do so. Born in Victoria Street and then living at Gorse Rise, he volunteered to join the Army in 1940, aged 30. Educated at Spittlegate Boys and Boys Central, he was an active member […]
Ford, John James – Appointed Grantham station master aged 21
John James Ford (1846-1928) LONDON-born John James Ford joined the Great Northern Railway Company at Hatfield in 1861, and at the age of only 21 was appointed Grantham’s first station master. From there he went to King’s Cross station, where he was private secretary to Sir Henry Oakley, GNR’s general manager. He returned to Grantham […]
Hutchinson, Arthur – The founder of Grantham Town FC
Col Arthur Hutchinson (1855 – 1930) COL Arthur Hutchinson joined the Lincolnshire Regiment volunteers as private in 1873 and on retirement in 1908 was appointed Hon Colonel of the 2nd Battalion. But at the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered again and was given command of the 2/4 Battalion, although he was disappointed […]
Welby-Everard, Maj Gen Sir Christopher – Led Lincolnshire Regiment on D-Day
Maj Gen Sir Christopher Welby-Everard (1910-1996) MAJ Gen Sir Christopher Welby-Everard (1910-1996), who lived at Sapperton Manor, Sapperton, had a distinguished military career. He took over the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment prior to the Normandy landings and led it into Hermanville on D-Day. He commanded his troops with distinction during the major battle for Caen, […]
Garthwaite, Anna Maria – Silk-weaving was her forte
Anna Maria Garthwaite (1688-1763) Anna Maria Garthwaite was the daughter of a wealthy Rev Ephraim Garthwaite Rector of Harston, near Knipton, and his wife Rejoyce (nee Hausted). The family lived mainly in Grantham. Anna Maria left Grantham to live in York with her twice-widowed sister Mary from 1726 to 1728. They moved to a house […]
Bellamy. Horace Francis – From biker to buyer
Horace Bellamy (1902-1977) CHIEF Buyer at Henry Bell & Co, was born at Langwith Colliery, Notinghamshire. The family moved to Grantham when his father got a job with Bell’s as a wrought iron craftsman. Horace joined the firm in 1916 and stayed with them for 51 years. He worked his way up from office boy […]
Campbell, John Arthur – The man who brought the cinema to Grantham
John Arthur Campbell OBE (1878-1947) JOHN Campbell spent the last 40 years of his life in Grantham, and he certainly made a big difference for the residents. Born in North Runcton, near King’s Lynn, he was the son of a cattle dealer and judge, who bought for King Edward VII for the Sandringham Estate. Educated […]
Green, Phil – Popular local landlord born over Laundry
Phillip Green (1930-2013) PHIL Green was born above Grantham Steam Laundry, Belton Lane. He began work as an electrician at Aveling Barford, but at 16 joined the Royal Navy, where he saw action in the Korean War. On leaving as a Petty Officer stoker mechanic, he went to work for Mowbray’s Brewery, and eventually took […]
Jaques, Robin – Father of Carry On actress was killed in Old Somerby air crash
Robin Rochester Jaques (1897-1923) Robin Jaques was born in the Heaton area of Newcastle. He was the son of a billiard room manager. The eldest son of eight children, sometimes he was called Robert in his younger days. He was a keen sportsman and became a semi-professional footballer. He signed to Clapton Orient and Fulham FC but his […]
Bradshaw, William – Grantham store manager became major CWS man
William Bradshaw (1877-1955) SIR William Bradshaw, who managed Grantham’s Co-op, went on to become chairman of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. The son of a Derbyshire miner, Sir William began work at 13 at Ripley Co-op. He was a bound apprentice on 30p a week. In 1901 he was appointed manager of the newly opened Wirksworth […]
Grylls, Mary – Barrister was a Scrabble buff
Mary Grylls (1924-2009) MRS Mary Grylls, nee Wallace, was the daughter of Grantham High Street dentist Fred Wallace and his wife Muriel. After attending Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School she went to Malvern Girls’ College from there to St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she read law. She qualified as a barrister, and after a short time […]