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Which Grantham company was this?

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THIS Grantham company has long gone, yet the town has a rich legacy of its products. The building is still there but serves a different purpose.

Name the company and any of the staff you recognise.

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Who spent their Saturday afternoons here?

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London Road football/cricket ground in 1985
Grantham FC dressingrooms & boardroom in 1985. London Road (later Sainsbury)
Stand at London Road football ground 1985
THIS one is personal. I spent many a happy hour in this press box, frozen still from the draughts, watching Town at London Road football ground For the big match we would get a few visitors but usually it was a lonely place – and a dark one as I phoned through my ‘copy’ to evening papers after the lights were switched out. It was always secure yet sometimes articles of women’s clothing would be found on the bench inside. How is still a mystery. This picture was taken in 1985.
The main stand and terrace at the London Road football ground. The structure in the middle is the press box.

Who remembers these two pubs?

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TRAVELLERS moved on the vacant plot at North Street in 1985. This had once been the site of Vere Street and James Street. Two pubs, the Sun Inn and the Square and Compass also came down. Eventually, Premier Court was built on the land.

Nags in Grantham Market Place

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A large crowd turned out to turn the clock back in the Market Place in June 1972. They were there to see the first stagecoach on the London-Edinburgh run for 127 years. It changed its team of horses in Grantham. The background has changed little, except the Royal Oak sold Shipstone’s beer and Hill’s dress shop has acquired a pointed middle gable.

Grantham school was ahead in the IT game

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THE National School was ahead of the field in inofrmation technology in 1985. It already had four micros thanks to the school’s PTA. This meant each year had one to giver them hands on experience. Know anyone?

Who do you know in this photo?

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Bottesford Cricket Clun in 1985, from left, Back – Ken Kirton, Graham Nevitte, Mick Hopkins, Peter Sharp, Kevin Keep, Godfrey Sutton, Stuart Barrett & Peter Widger; Front: George Willis, Richard Hopkins, Robert Evans, Paul Simpson & Vernon Spick.

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