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Were you at this Grantham Wedding of the Year?

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Wedding of Lord Brownlow’s daughter, Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church in 1954
Wedding of Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church
Wedding of Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church
Wedding of Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church
Wedding of Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church
photographer is the Journal#s Jimmy Dean
Wedding of Caroline Cust at St Wulfram’s Church

Talking of tough coppers….

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Further to today’s controversy over a police officer throwing a punch – this ladt could do more with her tongue than most of her colleagues could do with their fists.

Sgt Dorothy Brook was the scourge of naughty teenagers in the Fifties and Sixties.

Grantham Police Inspection Dorothy Brooke

Who remembers this pub?

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The Black Boy Pub Coaching was at its height in the early 19th century and Foston had several Inns and Staging Houses. The Duke William public house was at the Allington crossroads close to the service station area. The Black Horse still exists in the centre of the village as a private house and flats. The Black Boy was demolished in 1950 and it stood at the Junction of Tow lane and Newark Hill. With the advent of the railway Foston lost any importance it may have had as a staging post and the village was bypassed in the 1920’s isolating the village from any through traffic. At the turn of the century when the Great North Road ran through the village, the vehicles on the road were mainly horse drawn. Travelling circuses would pass through the village along with occasional dancing bears and travellers from all walks of life. During the First and Second World Wars, Foston remained a thriving village. Sadly, during the Great War eight men from the village lost their lives in the armed forces. In the Second World War, two men were lost during the war. During that time American Medics stationed at Allington frequented the Public Houses in the village. Italian prisoners of war worked on some of the farms, replacing villagers that had left to go to war or work in Grantham at the armament factories.

And still they keep on rockin’

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Grantham College Refectory rock n roll concert 2014.
Grantham College Refectory rock n roll concert 2014. With Stan & Rosa Matthews
Grantham College Refectory rock n roll concert 2014.
Grantham College Refectory rock n roll concert 2014. Dave Knight

Who recalls this cinema?

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The Empire Theatre, aka Theatre Royal in George Street. Opened in the 1880s, but by the early 50s was a cinema showing old films. cost sixpence (2.5p) downstairs or a shilling (5p) upstairs. Became the offices for ATS tyres and has since become flats.

Inside the Empire Theatre in the late 1940s

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