SLHA Magazine
LINCOLNSHIRE PAST & PRESENT
Summer 2008
1832: Mixed Fortunes for Colonel Sibthorp: Part 1 : The Reform Act Provokes Electioneering -
Mark Acton
Lincoln's three candidates for the 1832 General Election (Sibthorp, G F Heneage, E L Bulwer) are introduced and the local political turmoil described, supported by contemporary portraits and documents.
Peace Declared! -
Chris Page
An account of the Hagerup family of Pelham Road, Grimsby and their female house servants, including the cook, Pease Leverton. The head of the family, Fred Hagerup, a Norwegian by birth, owned ships and was a Grimsby corn agent in the 1890s. (This responds to a query raised in LP&P 70, Winter 2007/08)
A Leader in its Field -
Bob Wise
Description of Mrs Smith's Cottage in Navenby, a simple dwelling of the 1840s, still furnished as left by the eponymous Mrs Smith who died a few years' ago. It is one of North Kesteven's most popular visitor attractions.
Leonard Cheshire and a Notable Tree at Fleet -
Joan Woolard
Hovenden House at Fleet was built by the Worth family in 1911 and donated to the Leonard Cheshire Foundation in 1957. The magnificent western red cedars along the drive are a striking feature.
Windmill Graffiti in Churches -
Catherine Wilson & David Start
Examples from Aslackby church porch and Thornton Abbey are shown and discussed (medieval post mills). Can these be accurately dated? Are there other examples of similar graffiti elsewhere in Lincolnshire?
Short items:
*Use of stocks in Lincoln, c1840
*Mrs Capp and Mrs Grantham and their school in Lincoln in C19
*Mystery group photograph from Holton le Clay or Laceby area
*Lincoln horse-drawn tramway cars, 1882-1905 - the first and last driver (illustrated)
*Claribel (Charlotte Allington Pye) 1830-1869. Query about location of the archive of her correspondence.
*Blackstone engine found at Hereford waterworks.
