Special Event: Heritage Open Days 2021 (Voices of Lincolnshire; Stories Unheard)
Museum open all of Heritage Open Days weekends, 11/12th and 18/19th Sept, 10am till 3pm both Saturday and Sunday. ‘Pop in’ to see the Civic Trust pop-up exhibition on Sleaford Castle and all other Museum exhibitions.
For more information on all Heritage Open Day events in Lincolnshire, click heritagelincolnshire.org
LOCAL HISTORY TALKS PROGRAMME 2021
Our programme of talks for 2021 has now been completed and is shown below. These are now confirmed dates and times.
All talks are presented in St Denys’ Church Rooms, off the Market Place in Sleaford.
Each talk starts at 7.30pm and lasts approximately an hour. Refreshments are available and there is a raffle.
£3 for non-members and £1 for members.
Click here to become a member.
This year’s programme:
Tuesday 28th Sept 2021
Sleaford – Bourne; the Railway Line the GNR didn’t want to build, presented by Jonathan Smith, Treasurer of SMT.
The Sleaford to Bourne Branch of the Great Northern Railway nearly never happened…..! Planned by the Company as part of an attempt to block another railway’s scheme to intrude into what it saw as its own territory, the GN struck a deal with its rival and tried to abandon their proposals. Fortunately for the locals of Aswarby, Scredington, Horbling, Rippingale and Morton, Parliament stopped them doing so. The line was opened in January 1872, carried passengers for 58 years and finally closed to all traffic in 1965. Jonathan will tell the whole fascinating story of this local railway line and its associated towns and villages at this talk – it is of great local interest to all.
Completed talks:
Tuesday 27th July 2021
Bass Maltings; From Construction to Dereliction, presented by Nigel Ogden, Lead Researcher.
The Bass Maltings in Sleaford are a large group of eight disused malt houses originally owned by the Bass Brewery of Burton upon Trent. Constructed between 1901 and 1907, the Maltings are the largest group of malt houses in England; they have been designated Grade II* on the National Heritage List of England recognising them as “particularly important … of more than special interest.”
