No. 27 : Spring 1997

The Lincoln Obelisk (on the High Bridge) - Neville Birch
River Trips on the River Trent - Jim English
Four Brothers and a Name: Field Flowers (1804-1877) of Tealby - Jean Fanthorpe and Jim Murray
Lincolnshire Mills Group: a progress report - Les Osborne
The Case of the House Detectives (Dunsby) - Hilary Healey
Lincolnshire and the empire : wireless communication - Stewart Squires
Short items: Sutton Marsh; T E Lawrence in the RAF; fast train at Market Rasen; tank traps in Nettleham Road, Lincoln; Sutton swing bridge centenary; peppermint distillery, Market Deeping; Thomas Treadgold and Stephen Langton; flax growing in Spalding area; Ada Mayfield and Sturton by Stow; Local History Summer School at Stamford, 1938; half-timbered church at Gosberton Clough; Matthew Flinders' cat; trees in the Fens; exceptional weather in Quadring, Wootton and Holbeach, various dates
Obituaries: Oliver Anderson, journalist and author; John C Mossop, solicitor and amateur archaeologist; Jean and Fred Shaw of East Keal