No. 30 : Winter 1997/98

Report on 4 short lectures: Ploughs - Maureen Birch; Survey of Wigford (Lincoln) - Mary Lucas; Lincoln Urban Archaeological Database - Ian George; Chain Home Radar Station, RAF Stenigot - Chris Lester
Learning can be fun (at Gainsborough Old Hall) - Heather Cummins
A cautionary tale (set in Gainsborough), first published in 1942
Lincoln's Nineteenth Century Working Class Housing - Neville Birch
Archaeology from the air - report on one-day conference
Obituary: Chris Sturman (1950-1997), Teacher, scholar and historian
Short items: Glanville's cottage (near Tattershall); growing flax and peppermint; Henry Burton of Stamford (photographer); Henry Teague of Lincoln (water engineer); spring-heeled Jack; visit to RAF Cranwell; Lincolnshire haslet; origin of word gipple; Ewerby cross; Lincolnshire Gang; poetry of Charles Tennyson Turner; signposts for C roads; Edward Ingledew, ironfounder of Gainsborough; recruiting for the Navy from Lincolnshire villages; poem about the excise man.