Nostalgia

Arthur Newton Christian Treadgold was born in Great Gonerby in 1863 to Thomas George Treadgold and Lydia Newton.

This week sees teenagers getting their GCSE results, and back in 1990 primary school pupil Caroline Anderson earned an A in her GCSE maths exam.

Above is the Grantham Fenland Laundry First 11 Football Team.

With the reunion of Aveling Barford workers at Grantham Museum earlier this month, many former employees have been going through old photos taken during their time at the engineering firm.

The Tate Gallery wants you help in identifying the places pictured in a massive collection of photographs from across Britain that it has just put into its online archive.

Looking very smart in their uniforms outside the Guildhall are the BMARC Band, with conductor/band master Harry Sale and drum major Tom Adams in the centre.

In 2005 Cliffedale Primary School’s Class 5P wrote to the Journal after hooded tops were banned from shopping centres around the country.

Twenty-one-year-old Grantham organist Mike Hall signed a contract with the BBC in April, 1975, and would be featured on the radio show ‘The Organist Entertains’.

Three members of Witham Wheelers got caught up in the middle of riots at the start of the Junior Tour of Ireland in Derry, back in August 1995.

In June, 1985, Harlaxton Manor served for four days as the location scene for the CBS television movie ‘Last Days of General Patton’, starring George C. Scott (pictured, inset) in the title role.

Regular contributor to Memory Lane, Michael Matsell submitted this photograph that he captured at Grantham post office in 1960.

This bunch of local lads formed one of many rock bands around Grantham in the 1980s.

Twenty-one-year-old David Williams of Ancaster in April, 1972, is pictured with the 1916 Sunbeam 3½hp motorcycle he restored as part of his three-year course in the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Loughborough College of Technology.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher went back to her old school, KGGS, during her one-day visit to Grantham in February, 1982.

Regular Memory Lane contributor Mike Matsell brought in this photo from around 1950 which the Journal believes is of Grantham Road Club’s annual day trip to Skegness.

Grantham band Gingerbread were making a name for themselves back at the beginning of the 1970s, and had been working on a second record.

Hairdressers Head Shed organised a fashion show to raise money for Grantham Hospital’s special care baby unit in July 1990.

Grantham’s 1980 pantomime, ‘Robin Hood and Babes in the Wood’, which opened on New Year’s Day, was described as a “home-grown show”.

In June 1986, fourth year pupils of Belvoir High School in Bottesford put on a dramatic production of the classic story of gang warfare set in 1920s New York – ‘Bugsy Malone’.

Grantham Youth Centre’s under-15 five-a-side team just missed out on a chance to win the County Festival of Sports football competition at Nottingham University in January 1978.