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Who can you name in this Grantham school photo?

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National School swimmers. swimmers in 1962. Who can you name?
Back – B1 B2 B3, John Dobney, Frank Cullen (head) B6, B7, B8 B9 & B10
Front – F1 F2 F3 F4 F5, Mrs Marsh, Mrs Gedney,, F8 F9 F10 F11 & F12. can only Name a. Few . The teachers are . Miss Marsh & Mrs Gedney . Mr Cullen was the Headmaster. Working left to right I’m No 2. 4=John Dobney. 5-Steve Edwards 6- Colin Eams 7-Kev Marshal 8 Dick Wright 9 Mick Brennan . Of the 10 Girls No4 Carol Horton No5 ???? Lister No 10Tina Horton .

RAF celebrate freedom of the Borough of Grantham

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THE RAF received the Freedom of the Borough of Grantham in July 1952. Amazingly, St Peter’s Hill at first look appears to have hardly changed. A scrutiny shows virtually everything has changed, except perhaps the behaviour of pedestrians on the east side of the road, which was still allowing traffic to flow.
RAF gets the Freedom of the Borough of Grantham

Join Grantham’s big canal clean-up

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Hollis Bridge 2012 showing the amount of rubbish in the Grantham Canal.

Next in the series of Grantham Canal Society’s canal clean-ups is on the Earlesfield section, on Wednesday 23rd January from 10am onwards.

Meet at Hollis Bridge, Earles Fields Lane, (follow postcode NG31 7QH)

Earlsfield youngsters helped with clearing the Grantham Canal around Earlesfield Lane bridge in October 1969.
MEMBERS of Grantham Civic Trust Clear-it-out task force and local youngsters with some of the rubbish taken out of the Grantham Canal near Hollis bridge in 1969.
Jan 1984 – Grantham Canal, Hollis Bridge.
1984 Canal clean up using football field behind Alexandra Road.

When women suffered the ducking stool in Grantham

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Welham Mill or Queen’s Mill and ducking chair at the foot of Well Lane (East Street). 1793. The stool was used not on witches but women brewers (brewsters) who adulterated their beer (a not uncommon practice then). The Mill was replaced by Pidcocks Maltings (and now Riverside flats)

All dressed up for church

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THIS delightful picture of the Finkin Street Methodist Church choir was taken during the First World War or shortly afterwards. We no longer know the names of these young ladies and gentlemen ion their Sunday best. The man sporting a boater on the second row is Mr G. W. Smith, organist and choirmaster. On the extreme right is Jimmy Trigg, the organ blower. Where the picture was taken is also a mystery. It certainly isn’t the Methodist Church, which is stone.

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