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Fancy taking a dip?

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A CHILLY 52 degrees Fahrenheit (11 Celsius) failed to stop enthusiastic swimmers on the first day of the season in May 1962. These lads helped to set a first day attendance record at the Wyndham Park Pool.

Who can you recognise in this Grantham pub?

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The back room of the Blue Bull, Westgate, was popular among farmers on a Thursday and intellectuals (above) on a Friday night back in the 1990s. Who do you recognise in this photo from those days? From left: Merrick Clegg, ? King, Eddie Priest, Mick ‘Mr Mayor’ Williams & Malcoln Sutton

Grantham families take to Skeg

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1950 Grantham Road Club’s annual day trip to Skegness. The racing members contested a Grantham to Skegness time trial, whilst family, friends and supporters boarded a bus and headed to the coast to meet up with their two-wheeled clubmates at the finish. It was in the days of Grantham cycling racing legend Jack O’Connor who had a bike shop in Welby Street. When Jack closed his shop, another keen cyclist, Don Ray, opened up a store at the bottom of Swinegate. But the O’Connor family’s involvement with cycling shops lives on today in Chris O’Connor’s establishment in Watergate.

Who remembers this Grantham business?

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Exterior of Impress Packaging as its future lay in doubt in 2004. Originally built as American Can in 1969 on the former railway marshalling yards, it mainly provided cans for the petfood industry. It had several names as it changed ownership. The last were Pechiney and finally closed as Impress in 2006.

Diving at Denton Res

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Grantham diving club called,’Steelweld sub aqua club Grantham’,these pictures look like there at Denton res. ,Darren Eaton.
The old 1960’s Grantham diving club called,’Steelweld sub aqua club Grantham’,these pictures look like there at Denton Regards,Darren Eaton.

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