No. 31 : Spring 1998

Helpringham Board School Minutes: Establishing the School - A J Ashton
Memoirs of Charles Gunthorpe: 1830s - 1860s (original document)
Some Lincolnshire religious censuses - Jim English
The union of benefices (Lincolnshire examples) - J E Swaby
The parish of St Michael on the Mount, Lincoln - W Jacob
Memories of the Second World War in Grantham - Bill Taylor
Short Items: National Wildlife and Farming Award; Gainsborough commemorative plaques; alterations at Butlin's, Skegness; RAF Digby Operations Room; violent weather near Surfleet in 1871; meaning of the word "gipple" or "gappel"; Spalding-Sleaford railway; Museum of Entertainment; Charles Hodgson Fowler, architect, 1840-1910; spring-heeled jacks; medieval tile from Revesby; Gascoyne winged lions; Sutton Bridge song, 1783; illustration of font at Great Limber; holy wells in Lincolnshire.
Obituaries: Arthur Pentelow, local historian; David Roberts, architectural historian; Geoffrey Taylor, archaeologist.