Nostalgia

The recently renovated Christ Church in Finkin Street also saw a few changes over the years when it was known as Finkin Street Methodist Church.

Not a car, van or lorry in sight!

One of Grantham’s largest industrial players of the past was John Lee and Son.

Trendy vicars are nothing new as this photograph clearly demonstrates.

Former Foden lorry owner-driver Colin Holloway brought some old truck photos into the Journal office last week.

‘Skylark’, the Hillman Imp-engined hovercraft designed and built by Grantham’s Aubrey Musson and Cis Blankley, of Colsterworth, drew a lot of attention at the international rally of the Hovercraft Club of Great Britain in 1967.

Tucked away surrounded by houses, a cinema and John Lee’s rag and skin factory, Welby Street School was open for about 80 years.

Fifty years ago, back in 1967, St Peter’s Hill Players put on a production of ‘Pools Paradise’ at Grantham Congregational Church schoolroom.

Pictured is the former Crown and Anchor public house in Swinegate.

Regular Grantham Journal Memory Lane contributor Stan Matthews dropped off this collection of snaps from his bodybuilding days.

Grantham Journal reader John Roberts, of South Witham, posted these photographs to us last week.

Members of the Nottingham Forest Supporters Club (Grantham branch) are pictured before they boarded the coach to Munich, where Brian Clough’s team were set to take on Swedish club Malmo in the 1979 European Cup final.

Regular Memory Lane contributor Mike Matsell dropped off these photos that recall the well-documented Grantham railway crash of September 19, 1906.

Following on from last month’s recollection of Laurel and Hardy’s appearance in Grantham in 1952, the photo above recalls an earlier visit to the area in 1947.

Regular Memory Lane contributor Mike Matsell popped into the Grantham Journal office this week to drop off a few photographs from his collection.

An enthusiastic audience appreciated the delights of Belton Jazz Festival in 1983.

H. Welbourn and Son’s ‘high class tobacconists’ shop is pictured in Westgate, back in 1982.

The photo of choristers in St Wulfram’s was taken in 1985 and was actually the first colour picture to appear in the Grantham Journal.

Poachers Motor Club found Wyndham Park too wet for their rally in 1960, so they moved to the former RAF Regiment parade ground at Alma Park.

As a follow-up to the Memory Lane article a fortnight ago that commemorated the 30th anniversary of a tribute show to former manager of Grantham’s Granada Theatre/Cinema, Harry Sanders, his son Howard got in touch with the Journal and sent in some photographs from the night in 1987.