15/08/08 - What was school celebrating in colourful pageant?
THIS picture of a school pageant is a bit of a mystery to Mrs G. Noon who found it at her mother's house.
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We don't know what the pageant was for, when or where the picture was taken. Mrs Noon thinks it may be Spittlegate School pupils. The girl (centre) is dressed as Britannia and the boy next to her as St George.
If you can shed light on it
e-mail Neil Graham at neil.graham@granthamjournal.co.uk or call 01476 541431
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Pub life in the 1940s was very different to today
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THESE pictures of pub life in the 1940s were sent in by Anne Parker.
Anne's mother, Eveline Hardie is pictured extreme left next to her husband David. They became landlord and landlady of the wonderfully quaint Blue Bell pub on the junction of North Street and Barrowby Road, which, despite a campaign to save the old building, was demolished and the site of it is under Asda's car park.
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The pictures also show George and Rose Murr, landlord and landlady of The Earlesfield Hotel, on Dysart Road, which then was a fairly new pub in town having been built in 1927. Later it became the first 'family pub' in the town and is now The Priory.
Can any reader tell us which pub they are in or even remember the name of the dog. Contact Neil Graham on 01476 541431. Photos: 7535 K01&02
Got any old pics to share?
HAVE you an old photo you would like to share with readers. Bring it to our High Street reception, leaving a little information and a daytime contact number, or call Neil Graham on 01476 541431 or e-mail him neil.graham@granthamjournal.co.uk
10 Years Ago
CCTV was to be installed at Grantham Hospital following a number of attacks on staff in the A&E department.
* Long jumpers at South Kesteven Sports Stadium, Grantham, were having to pull up short after Grantham Town FC built a burger bar just off the end of the jumping sandpit.
* A man walking his dog on the Cherry Orchard estate, Grantham, found a box tied with string into which had been crammed 14 fantail pigeons.
* A government report suggested that within 300 years much of Grantham and the surrounding area could be submerged due to rising sea levels.
* Grantham Cricket Club were skittled out for just 22 by Woodhall Spa in the Lincolnshire League, despite only three batsmen failing to score.
25 Years Ago
AT a crisis meeting of SKDC it was revealed the budget overspend at Grantham Leisure Centre, in Union Street, had topped 96,000.
* Two men working on the first floor of premises in Welby Street, Grantham, escaped injury when the floor caved in and they plunged into the cellar.
* CCS cricket team of Colsterworth were facing defeat against Ingoldsby in a South Lincs and Border League Division 2 match, until John King took seven wickets for just one run.
* Grantham and District Road Safety committee said parents were teaching their children on main roads to do 'bunny hops' and 'wheelies' on their BMX bikes .
* Grantham cycle racer Simon Goodge finished second in the 120km Grand Prix de St Germain D'Anxure near Mayenne.
50 Years Ago
CANON Charles Leeke died suddenly, aged 70, just four months after retiring as Vicar of Grantham, a post he had held for 20 years.
* Grantham and Corby Glen were included for the first time in a Television Audit Measurement report as places where ITV could now be generally received.
* There was a record entry of 329 for Buckminster and Sewstern Pony Show with contestants coming from eight counties.
* A garden fete organised by Ropsley FC in the village hall field included a six-a-side football competition with players in sacks.
* At the annual meeting of Grantham Football Supporters' Club it was revealed a record 3,400 had been donated to Grantham FC during the previous year.
100 Years Ago
A CONCERT and pierrot carnival held in the ground of Syston Park raised money to build a hall for the villages of Barkston and Syston.
* Many players came away with "scars" from a push-ball match at Corby and District Horticultural Society Show.
* There was a record entry of 78 anglers for Grantham Angling Association's evening match on the canal, fished either side of the swingbridge.
* As part of Woolsthorpe Feast, children from the village processed to Home Farm to receive the traditional measure of wheat with which they made the old dish of "frummety".
* Grantham Rural District Council agreed to build a 12-bed isolation hospital on the outskirts of Grantham surrounded by an "unclimbable fence".
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