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The picture by Terry Shelbourne was sent in by Vaughan Hardy. It shows Mrs Olive Aukland selling the Nottingham Evening Post outside the old Post Office on St Peter’s Hill in the late 1950s. She was almost a fixture. In the foreground is Mr Betts. Behind them are two K6 telephone kiosks.

Who do you know in this Grantham school photo?

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THIS is King’s School Rugby XV in the 1973-74 season. It was taken by Alister Hutchinson. Back – Kevin Chilvers, Mark Turner, Steve Hodgson, Peter Goodridge, Steve Thomas, Jim Caulfield, Gordon South, John True, Shaun McConnell, Geoff Reynolds; Middle – Malcolm McLean, Richard Bell, Dave Bundy, Alan Challis, Ian Jones, Bill Clark, Jeremy Reichelt.; Front – Martin Head, F2?,Steve Bourne, Ken Raynor.

Grantham’s Big Match

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MORE than 6,000 spectators turned out for Grantham FC’s second preliminary FA Cup round in 1954 against Boston United. The Stumpites were two goals up before the break but a gallant fightback saw two goals in as manay minutes for Town and a replay at Boston’s Shodfriars Lane ground. Grantham lost the replay by a late goal.
MORE than 6,000 spectators turned out for Grantham FC’s second preliminary FA Cup round in 1954 against Boston United. The Stumpites were two goals up before the break but a gallant fightback saw two goals in as manay minutes for Town and a replay at Boston’s Shodfriars Lane ground. Grantham lost the replay by a late goal.
MORE than 6,000 spectators turned out for Grantham FC’s second preliminary FA Cup round in 1954 against Boston United. The Stumpites were two goals up before the break but a gallant fightback saw two goals in as manay minutes for Town and a replay at Boston’s Shodfriars Lane ground. Grantham lost the replay by a late goal.

A busy Grantham market

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I can still smell the pigs and hear their squeaks at the Saturday Market in the early 1950’s. So different now when people press a button and a Tesco van arrives with a motto”You shop,we drop”. from: Vaughan Hardy

Who do you know in this Barford’s photo?

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THERE may have been a war on, but it did stop the staff in Aveling Barford drawing office from decorating the office at Christmas in 1944. Austerity being what it was, however, they probably made their own from scrap paper. Those were the days when drawings were on crown-size sheets of paper instead of on a computer screen. In the picture, sent in by Bill Davies, of Edward Street, Grantham, are – P. Stevenson, B. Proctor, E. Richardson, M. Barker, E. Colls, A. Deville, P. Buttery, P Clarke, ?-Stevens, H. Whitaker, H. Norton, R. Hannom, G. Chessman, J. Glenn, B. Sargerson, W. Davis, H. Simpson, J. Bird, B. Pidd, T. Ellis, ? Leverett, Miss Preston, B. Jefferies, F. Ashdown, ? Piddlesdon and N. Clarke. Mr W. Davis

Watergate 80 years ago

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A GIANT casting in towed through Grantham by steam tractor in about 1933. It is passing Dr Shipman’s surgery in Watergate. The building was demolished for road-widening in the early 1950s.
A GIANT casting is towed through Grantham by steam tractor in about 1933. ISharpley’s shop at the top of Watergate

Grantham scouts go ‘abroad’

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THESE lads belonged the 7th St John Scouts in 1954. they are on summer camp in Llangollen, North Wales. Among them are Roy Lyons, the Brading brothers, the McQueeny brothers, Mick Nussey, Nick Nickerson, and the Duller borthers. The picture was sent in by Colin Duller, of Salisbury. He said “I would have been about 15-16 then. “That was in the days when we had Bob a Job Week.”

Grantham youths go to Paris

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Geoff Harrison, John Cattermole , Tim Cullington, Stuart “Billy” Gent, Malc Fardell, Mel Bradley, Richard Swann, Chris Woods, Perry Smith, Gaz Bowen, Ian “Boo” Shaw, Shane Marshall, Gary Scott Grantham Youth Centre Soccer Trip To France. Not sure of the year – maybe 1974. Fromthe late John Cattermole

Grantham’s finest darters

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The Granby Darts Team in 1984. From Left: Pete Mason, Tony Pretty, Mick Capindale, Mark Hiutchinson, Denis Burgoine, Martin Angeloni, Jeff Cooper, Melvyn Short, Jim Hull Paul Arndt, David ‘Sparrow’ Jackson and John Grice.

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