1999

No. 35 : Spring 1999

The storm-prone Lincolnshire coast - Geoffrey Humphrys
Historic buildings at risk in Lincolnshire - Stewart Squires
Our Old Town revisited (Thomas Miller's 1857 book about Gainsborough) - Ian Waites
Brief WW2 career of Derek Clinkard, New Zealander, who flew from RAF Hemswell - John Williams
St Benedict's Square, Lincoln - Cynthia Overton
Help for the historian - sources about C19 changes to towns and villages - Rex Russell
Making up history (with reference to Market Rasen) - Douglas Boyce
Memories of a boy at the Records Office - John Fines
Finger (direction) signposts in Lindsey.
Short items: fonts at St Mary, Tetford, and St Mary Magdalen, Rothwell; origins of Friends of Gainsborough Old Hall; Steam engine by W H Chester of Lincoln; croob or curb used by well diggers; Earl's Bridge near Mablethorpe; donkey carts; Stoke Rochford College of Education film, c1960; Lincolnshire glazier in Kings Lynn in C15; Toynton pots; Flinders, Bass and Australia.

No. 36 : Summer 1999

Countess Lucy (Saxon heiress) and Frances, Dowager Duchess of Warwick: connections with Alkborough - Edna Barnard
Crown Mill (Le Tall's Mill), Lincoln - Ruth Tinley
C19 documents about South Ormsby and Driby - Margaret Goodrich
Rich trade in poor things (documents from Stamford Mercury 1800-10) - Rex Russell
Personal recollections of Irby Top Farm, near Laceby - Ruby M Clark
Thoroton Society and SLHA : report of a joint event Sheila Stevens
Short items: Activities at Jews' Court; W H Chester steam engine; water towers at Billingborough, Brigg, Burton Pedwardine, and others; field names; Mother Carey's chickens; Stout family of Bassingham; WWI tank models; Cathedral library improvements; Obituaries: Michael Pointer (Grantham industrial history writer), Duke of Rutland, Jeremy Elwes; Sleaford and Gainsborough cinemas; City and County Museum; Kirkby on Bain church (1801).

No. 37 : Autumn 1999

Quicksets (hawthorn) and hedges at Enclosure : original documents from Stamford Mercury, c1800 - Rex Russell
Gainsborough Library remembered (personal recollections) - Rosalind Boyce
The reliability of farm names on Bryant's map of Lincolnshire 1828 - Robert Wheeler & Joan Mills
Jews' Court and the Jew's House - Maureen Birch
Industrial Archaeology visit to North Yorkshire (near Staithes) - Stewart Squires
C19 religious history of Swaby - Eileen Elder
Bardney before 1940 (a personal recollection) - Mary Wallace
Touches of Tennyson (a variety of incidents and connections) - J E Swaby
Short items: Poachers at Heckington (1834); local history summer school, 1938; font at St Denys church, Silk Willoughby.

No. 38 : Winter 1999/2000

Made in Lincoln (preview of Millennium industrial heritage project) - Stewart Squires
A railway tease (a hoax advert for a railway project in 1845) - Neil Wright
King Stephen and the Zeppelin (rescue off the Lincolnshire coast in 1916) - Jim Murray
Correspondence from/to William Marwood of Horncastle, executioner (original documents)
A technical education in Lincoln in 1902 - Ralph Bates
An early reference to tobacco pipes at Stamford - Gary Taylor
Short items: Raithby Chapel; Hewitt's Mill, Heapham; Flinder's Bicentenary medal; Deeping St James market cross; leather bottle (jack) and black boy bust in Lincoln; Richard Lawton Gales, poet, Gedney; Greenwich meridian markers; Gainsborough, Stamford and Boston libraries; lost water towers (Mablethorpe, Quadring).