No. 48 : Summer 2002

How Lincolnshire Celebrated Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee - Ken Redmore
Extracts from The Lincolnshire Chronicle of June 1887 describe the amusing and varied Jubilee celebrations in Lincoln and other communities in Victorian Lincolnshire. Includes a photograph of Lincoln worthies at a suitably bedecked Newport Roman Arch.
A letter to Rev Richard Fawssett from his mother Charlotte, 1833 - John Fawssett
A letter dated 1833 from the author’s great-great-grandmother, a respectable doctor’s widow of Horncastle, reveals a mother’s anxiety about her daughter’s proposed marriage. The author is able to deal with some but not all of the intriguing questions raised by this document.
How I found Sheath’s Bank (an important C18 bank in Boston) - Neil Wright
The author uses his considerable knowledge of early nineteenth-century Boston to track down the location of a small banking business founded by the Sheaths, who were also timber merchants, ship owners and landowners. In the process we learn much about the commercial centre of this important Lincolnshire town.
World War I Hangars at Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln - Charles Parker
A description, with photographs, of the last original and unique Belfast truss hangars, which were demolished in September 2001 despite their Grade II Iisting and widespread local opposition. On this site, close to Lincoln’s southern boundary, aircraft were assembled or repaired and flown during both World Wars.
Gainsborough Riverside Walk (the industrial archaeology) - Andrew Crabtree
An illustrated description of the historic buildings and sites along the River Trent at Gainsborough. This account of the development and later decline of a Lincolnshire port ends on an optimistic note about the current huge waterfront regeneration project and the introduction of recreational rivercraft.
The sounds of Grantham, early C20 - Peter Stevenson
An evocative and colourful account of the street noises of Grantham in the inter-war years of the author’s youth. The identification - and description - of sounds emanating from vehicles (trains, cars, lorries, horse and carts, cycles, planes) as well as men and animals, paints an attractive and nostalgic picture.
Hill House, Bracebridge Heath (built 1934) - Peter Young
The author’s former home in Bracebridge Heath from1963 until 1999 stands on a site once owned by Colonel Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorpe, Lincoln’s notoriously eccentric MP in the mid-nineteenth-century. (Sibthorpe hated foreigners and was an implacable opponent of the early railways.) We read an account of the development of the house from its construction in 1933 to the present day.
St Gilbert and St Hugh CE Church, Gosberton Clough
A photograph and brief description of this fine 1902-04 building which has recently been restored. It is timber-framed, with brick chancel, rendered walls, and Collyweston slated roof.
Short Items Allotments in Binbrook, 1877; lantern slides of Lincolnshire, 1898; obituary for Ronald Drury; MBE for Dr John Ketteringham, local historian and author.