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Look what you’re missing thanks to lockdown

March 31, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

This week we should all be enjoying all the fun of the fair. Instead it is just another casulaty of the coronavirus lockdown. Here are some pictures from 11 years ago

Mid Lent Fair in Westgate

Mid Lent Fair in Market Place in 2009

Mid Lent Fair in Market Place in 2009

Busier times in shopping centre

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In the main concourse of the Isaac Newton Centre in 1990 Gordon Beech

Yet more Grantham postmen

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all taken by Darren Eaton in 1990 at Grantham sorting office

Who recalls this Grantham building?

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Hunter and Moyes Maltings, Oxford Street, under demolition in 1988

Grantham nurses get their awards

March 29, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Sent in by Margaret Matthews of Westside Avenue, Grantham, it is a prizegiving event at Grantham Hospital in the 1950s. Nurses were presented with prizes by Miss Henry, who was visiting the hospital from the Royal College of Nursing.

The original St Anne’s

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The Tin Tabernacle, St Anne’s original church, Harrowby Road, in 1880.

Grantham gets a new leisure centre

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1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction, overlooking the SK Stadium. Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre under construction Photo: Ian Selby

1994 – Grantham Meres Leisure Centre before construction Photo: Ian Selby

Fancy a dip in here today?

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Dysart Park swimming pool in about 1980 following its closure

Do you remember this Grantham street?

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Stanton Street taken from Wharf Road in 1980. The street was about to be demolished to make was for Morrisons car Park. The former Isaac Newton Pub (on the right) has already been knocked down.

Who recalls having a pint in this Grantham pub?

March 28, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

The Blue Cow, Castlegate in about 1950. It was demolished to make way for Wallworks furniture store around 1960. Photo from Allan Senior

Can you name these Grantham girls?

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Who can you name in this float at the Grantham Carnival (or Barford’s Gala). And what year was it?
Sent in by Robert Harper

Who do you know in this Grantham photo?

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Kontaks new bowling rink is opebned in June 1980. WHERE WAS IT?

What ever happened to…

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A plaque made by Vic Heppenstall and sign-written by Terry Shelbourn in 1980 for the gym of Huntingtower School. Is it still there?

Grantham High Street manouvres

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POLICE eased two lorries carrying structural frames through the town centre, in 1993, one of them 25m long. The frames for a conveyor belt made in Bestwood, Nottingham, were brought to Grantham for weatherproofing at Grantham Protective Coating, Old Wharf Road. They then headed for Avonmouth Docks, Bristol.

Who do you know in this Grantham school photo?

March 26, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

Belmont School 1990

The lads from Aveling- Barford

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1970s photo of Aveling Barfords 25-year club from Darren Eaton. Who can you name?

Not our oldest ‘old’ Grantham picture so who do you know?

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This pic was taken in February 2017 . Only 2 of us still going . But 3 years on still getting stronger. From Pugsey Parker

Walking Footballers at the Meres Leisure Centre three years ago.

Who can you name? From left 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9

Were you among these Grantham protestors?

March 24, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

The year is 1990 and hundreds turned out in St Catherine’s Road, to protest at the Conservative Party constituency office (Churchill House) to hand a petition to Grantham MP Douglas Hogg.

They were objecting to the introduction of the Poll Tax (or Community Charge)

Who do you recognise?

More photos of Grantham postmen

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Grantham Sorting Office 1990 Photo: Darren Eaton

Sorting Office Photo 6 Martin Lound and Rob Arthur Grantham Sorting Office 1990 Photo: Darren Eaton

Grantham Sorting Office 1990 Photo: Darren Eaton

Pub still there – but neighbours have gone

March 23, 2020 by Grantham Matters Leave a Comment

THE Reindeer, London Road, in 1990, before it was renamed. But most of its neighbours have gone