LOCAL HISTORY TALKS PROGRAMME 2025
All talks for 2025 have now been completed.
The programme for 2026 talks is shown below.
All talks are presented in St Denys’ Church Rooms, off the Market Place in Sleaford.
Each talk starts at 7.30pm (except Nov., which is from 2 -4pm) and lasts approximately an hour. Refreshments are available and there is a raffle.
£3 for non-members and £1 for members (except for the AGM and TT&T).
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Talk dates for 2026
Tuesday 24th March 2026
Cranwell Gasbags presented by Mark Bamford, Chair of SMT.
Mark tells a fascinating local story of airships, particularly the LTA (lighter-than-air) operations from RNAS Cranwell. Despite Cranwell not being a frontline operational base, it made an extremely important contribution to the war effort.
North Sea Class Airship NS11 at Cranwell.
Tuesday 26th May 2026
Leonard Short M.M. (1893 -1989) Sleaford Toy maker to Canadian WW2 Propellers and Hurricane fuel tanks by John Dale, Museum Researcher.
Donation only.
This whole event is free to attend as the 2026 AGM of the Sleaford Museum Trust will follow John’s talk.
Tuesday 28th July 2026
The Carre Family Vault@ St Denys’ by Simon Pawley, local Historian and author.
Simon is well-known for his very well researched and interesting talks. After publishing his joint book (with Michael Turland) on the History of the Carre Family, Simon will share more of his extensive research on the mysterious Carre family vault at St Denys’ Church.
Tuesday 29th September 2026
Search for Two Lincolnshire Brothers by Jonathan Smith, Sleaford Museum Treasurer & Researcher
Jonathan will talk about the effect of the First World War on Lincolnshire towns including Sleaford, Stamford and Bourne (as well as Lincoln) before revealing some of the information he found while researching his two great uncles who died near Ypres during the conflict.
Tuesday 24th November 2025 2-4pm
‘Talks, Teas and Teasers’
presented by Mark Bamford and Museum staff. An afternoon of heritage and history – a few short talks, some historical puzzles and quizzes, with tea and cake!
£5
