24 March 2015
Around 500 young footballers welcomed Brian Clough to Grantham as he prepared to spend his final days at Nottingham Forest in May 1993.
15 March 2015
Colsterworth Primary School won the Small Schools Netball Tournament in Grantham in March, 1988.
14 March 2015
‘New Blues’ were a new band in Grantham in 1998.
08 March 2015
Grantham motor dealer adverts in the Journal of March, 1965, would at the time have truly arrested the attention of the car buyer who demanded both speed and style.
07 March 2015
A date clash with the 1973 European Nations Cup match between England and West Germany caused the 8th Grantham (Harrowby) Scouts fayre at St Wulfram’s school to suffer from a poor attendance.
03 March 2015
Three BMARC (Grantham) boxers contested Notts and Lincs regional ABA schoolboy title bouts at Ollerton in February, 1980.
22 February 2015
St Hugh’s School put on a highly successful version of the musical Calamity Jane in February of 1981.
15 February 2015
Popular Grantham band The Six were set to make their debut appearance at Dingwalls, in Camden, London, in September 1985.
07 February 2015
Local historians with an interest in WWI might like to know there is a new book entitled Lincolnshire at War 1914-18 On Old Picture Postcards (£4.95 from bookshops).
25 January 2015
Grantham historian Stan Matthews has written another fascinating book – this time detailing ‘A History of The Old Barracks’.
11 January 2015
A Colsterworth Youth Centre bike ride raised £400 for the ambucopter and two riders – Jo Peasgood and Jonathan Hudson – repeated it the next day, back in September 1994.
08 January 2015
A group of keen Grantham FC supporters were pictured in the Journal in jubilant mood prior to the team’s 1-0 victory at Barry Town, Wales, in April 1973.
04 January 2015
Grantham under-14s won the Lincolnshire Trophy in December 1981, with the silverware provided by Pumfrey’s.
03 January 2015
Four lads from Grantham schools were picked by their sports masters to be ball-boys for the England versus Hungary match at Wembley in July 1981.
25 December 2014
Grantham’s outgoing mayor in 1982, Paddy Perry, was pictured putting the boot in to kick off a charity football match that raised more than £600 for children’s homes in the town.
20 December 2014
Three girls received the Queen’s award at a 1st Long Bennington ceremony at Foston Village Hall in April 1981.
13 December 2014
Fulbeck Entertainers’ annual production in March 1987 was entitled “Variety 1987”.
