BOURNE DIARY INDEX A-K
A15 speed limit at Baston, Langtoft and Thurlby (WTPS) 23 Aug 03 - double fatality north of Bourne (WTPS) 21 Feb 04 - call for safety measures 21 Feb 04 - A15 through Bourne is dangerous 28 Feb 04 - closed for roadworks for two weekends north of Bourne 19 Mar 05 - need for a bypass/history 14 May 11
A A Gill – quote re life with small joys (TFTW) 15 Dec 07
Abbey Church – should not be locked 2 Apr 02 - financial problems (WTPS) 14 Dec 02 - churchyard a drinking den for teenagers 23 Aug 03 - needs funds to survive/the financial challenge 12 Jun 04 - photos from the tower and its height 4 Dec 04 - tombstone and south porch window vandalised 26 May 07 - churchyard neglected 25 Oct 08 - new DVD on church and its history 19 Sep 09 - once named St Simon and St Jude 16 Jan 10 - documentary proof re St Simon & St Jude 23 Jan 10 - voluntary work best in Bourne 18 Sep 10 - cleaning the chandelier in the nave 25 Sep 10 - £300 short on weekly income/new appeal for funds 6 Nov 10 - new curate is a woman/curate’s duties 4 Dec 10 - east section of churchyard neglected/complaint to vicar 30 Jul 11 - building the Abbey Church/history of construction 17 Dec 11 - royal peal of bells for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee 16 Jun 12 - fire breaks out in 1882 20 Apr 13 - prayer kneelers/more being done/short history 3 Aug 13 - bats leave a mess in the church 17 Aug 13 - budget shortfall results in appeal for £6,000 7 Sep 13 - congregations dwindle/religion on the decline 30 Nov 13 - fund raising bazaar in 1841 11 Jan 14 - changing the light bulbs in the church 7 Feb 14 - installing gas lighting in 1841 8 Mar 14
Abbey Church – incense controversy - incense introduced for a trial period 3 May 08 - incense causes problems for some 2 Aug 08 - to continue but on limited Sundays 25 Apr 09
Abbey Church appeal and restoration - repair fund for £100,000 to be launched 4 Nov 06 - £100,000 repair fund launched (WTPS) 9 Dec 06 - appeal gets £10,000 from Len Pick Trust (WTPS) 16 Oct 06 - £11,000 so far/letters to 24 people go out 17 Feb 07 - bric-a-brac market stall appeal 10 Mar 07 - fresh appeal to meet target by year’s end (WTPS) 27 Oct 07 - £40.000 needed with four weeks to go (WTPS) 5 Jan 08 Bourne Diary Index - 2
- contrasting donations and pennies from heaven 5 Apr 08 - diocese refuses permission for toilet modernisation 26 Jun 10 - proposed appeal abandoned as too costly 18 Sep 10
Abbey House – why was it pulled down? 21 Feb 04 - George Pochin’s secret wine hoard discovered by workmen 30 Sep 06
Abbey Lawn - history 14 Oct 00 - more vandalism (WTPS) 21 Feb 04 - patrols to stop vandals (WTPS) 28 Feb 04 - fresh outbreak of vandalism (WTPS) 8 May 04 - bottle vandalism on soccer pitch (WTPS) 4 Dec 04 & 14 Apr 12 - putting green in 1965 16 Jul 05 - gang fight prompts fresh security calls (WTPS) 20 May 06 - emergency meeting called over vandalism (WTPS) 24 Jun 06 - new measures proposed to combat vandalism (WTPS) 8 Jul 06 - Abbey Lawn Action Committee formed 8 Jul 06 - Bourne United Charities should finance CCTV 15 Jul 06 - more vandalism/BUC should finance CCTV (WTPS) 16 Sep 06 - trees cut down in 1891 20 Jan 07 & 22 Aug 09 - vandalism to football stand (WTPS) 2 Jun 07 - evergreen hedge to isolate football pitch 31 May 08 - main wrought iron gates to be replaced/short history 22 Nov 08 - main gates replaced after refurbishment 23 May 09 - improvements to the garden by Green Gym team 29 Aug 09 - Horace Stanton Memorial Garden replaced 29 Aug 09 - best kept town plaque restored 12 Sep 09 - skateboard park to be sited at the Abbey Lawn 14 Apr 12
Abbey Lawn – security - fencing may be used to deter vandals (WTPS) 21 Oct 06 - fencing would be most unpopular/history 2 Dec 06 - action committee statement from Terry Bates (WTPS) 2 Dec 06 - debate continues/high fence will ruin town’s approaches 9 Dec 06 - representation on action committee inadequate 13 Jan 07 - decision made over security and statement awaited 3 Feb 07 - ring of steel fencing, predicts Stamford Mercury (WTPS) 3 Feb 07 - fencing to go ahead/where the money comes from (WTPS) 10 Feb 07 - test section erected in Abbey Road 18 Aug 07 - no movement on fencing project/right of way appraisal 26 Jul 08 - security guards to be employed rather then fencing 16 Aug 08 - fencing to go ahead but right of way may be challenged 13 Dec 08 - cost of railings to be borne by Bourne United Charities 13 Dec 08 - fencing to go ahead/short history of the site 2 May 09 - fortress Bourne mentality developing 20 Jun 09 - fencing well advanced 22 Aug 09 - curfew imposed/right of way questioned 28 Nov 09
Abbey Road Primary Academy Bourne Diary Index - 3
- launches web site 17 Jun 00 - photo from 1938 5 Apr 03 - date changed to 1936 12 Apr 03 - senior teacher made redundant by cash crisis (WTPS) 7 Jun 03 - letters to newspaper about the dispute (WTPS) 5 Jul 03 - pupils nominate redundant teacher for Rose Award (WTPS) 19 Jul 03 - redundancy story loses interest 16 Aug 03 - head teacher Mark Gray leaves (WTPS) 15 Nov 03 - senior teacher redundancy recalled in school round-up 24 Jul 04 - school must pay to have recycled paper collected (WTPS) 29 Sep 07 - school to go Church of England 10 Nov 07 - Ofted report gives outstanding rating 15 Dec 07 - Prince Edward visit planned 7 Aug 10 - school wins academy status/short history 11 Dec 10 - school records to go on Internet to help genealogists 2 Jul 11 - to run new school at Elsea Park 22 Jun 13
Academies – may not be such a good idea after all 22 Jun 13
Accommodation – SKDC drive to fill empty rooms 17 Nov 07
Addison, Joseph – quote re earthquake pills (TFTW) 26 Sep 09
Advertising signs on the pavements to be controlled (WTPS) 30 Oct 94 - advertising newspapers/leaflets waste of paper (WTPS) 22 Sep 07 - unwanted intrusion in our lives 7 Jul 12
Aeschylus – quote re time teaches lessons (TFTW) 28 May 11
Aesop quote re fools in office (TFTW) 12 Oct 02 - quote re prayers being heard (TFTW) 13 Dec 08
Affordable housing waived foe estate/possible consequences 20 Sep 14
Afghanistan bombings – possible consequences (TFTW) 20 Oct 01 - effect on Afghan mothers 27 Oct 01 - Afghanistan bombings (TFTW) 3 Nov 01 - old Afghan saying (TFTW) 10 Nov 01 - 12,000 bomb strikes so far (TFTW) 19 Jan 02
Agate, James – quote re suffering fools gladly (TFTW) 5 Jan 08
Ahmed, Imad – message from California re web site 19 Oct 02
Alexander, Dorothy – youth work at 89 2 Oct 10
Alexander, Shana – quote re rumours (TFTW) 11 Dec 10 & 3 Jan 15
Alcohol warning signs erected in Bourne 7 Jun 08
Bourne Diary Index - 4
A level passes – Spectator quote (TFTW) 23 Aug 03
Allison Homes – refuses to open relief road (WTPS) 6 Aug 05 (also previous entries on this subject)
Allotments – rabbits cause problems (WTPS) 28 Sep 02 - articles in The Local re 2003 council competition (WTPS) 3 Sep 03 - allotment competition begins and a short history (WTPS) 3 Jul 04 - keen demand/a short history 25 Jul 09 - 40 new allotments offered in housing application 11 Jun 11
Ambulance station under threat from new houses (WTPS) 26 Apr 03 - assurances sought over future of Bourne service (WTPS) 3 Jan 04 - ambulance HQ replies to criticism of cover (WTPS) 24 Jan 04 - ambulance re-organisation/paramedics take over (WTPS) 27 Mar 04 - housing development puts station at risk (WTPS) 14 Jun 04 - ambulance service to be cut back, says Unison (WTPS) 12 Nov 05 - community paramedics on the way for Bourne (WTPS) 28 Oct 06 - firemen will not be paramedics in the future (WTPS) 28 Oct 06 - concern over slow turnouts in Lincolnshire 24 Sep 11 - history of ambulance service in Bourne 24 Sep 11 - future of Bourne ambulance station 24 Sep 11 - ambulance station to close/history of service in Bourne 28 Jul 12 - ambulance station closure public consultation 3 Nov 12 - town council calls protest meeting 17 Nov 12 - public consultation fails to convince/protest round-up 1 Dec 12 - station to close under re-organisation 30 Mar 13 - station saved after operational twinning with Stamford 9 Nov 13 - ambulance disasters in Bourne in past years 9 Nov 13 & 8 Nov 14 - re-think for ambulance closure scheme 8 Nov 14
American Civil War – Bourne boy dies on battlefield 20 Jul 13
American TV and influence on crime (TFTW) 9 Mar 02
Americans don’t know where Iraq is (TFTW) 23 Nov 02
Ancaster Road – mother complains of heavy traffic 5 Jan 08
Ancient Woodland Project in Bourne Woods 17 Mar 01
Andersen, Hans Christian – quote re nature (TFTW) 27 Aug 11
Angel Hotel - painted green and cream dispute 6 Apr 02 - dispute continues 11 May 02 - criticism of new colours from Australia 15 Jun 02 - relative of the former ostler Samuel Griffin seeks info 13 Jul 02 - legal action pending over colour scheme (WTPS) 24 Aug 02 - claims of victimisation 9 Nov 02 Bourne Diary Index - 5
- battle lost and hotel repainted black and white 10 May 03 - hotel to close for refurbishment until July (WTPS) 26 Feb 05 - owner Nick Frankgate leaves amid financial troubles WTPS) 26 Aug 06 - modern décor and food no comparison with old style 7 Mar 09
Angel of the North replica for the town cemetery 29 Mar 08
Anglia Regional Co-operative Society (including Rainbow & AHF) - Rainbow supermarket defaults on bargain offers (SW) 17 Jan 04 - Home Furnishings – definition of a sale (Shop Watch) 12 Mar 05 - to develop the Opico factory site as a supermarket (WTPS) 24 Jun 06 - plans for Opico site revealed (WTPS) 18 Nov 06 - Tesco development may close Rainbow store 2 Jan 10
Anglian Water: - old water pump at depot 15 Sep 01 - burst water main takes 8 days to repair (WTPS) 11 Nov 06 - historic water pump sold to collector 17 Oct 09 - denies responsibility for St Peter’s Pool drying up 1 Oct 11 & 7 Jan 12 - hosepipe ban coming/water rates to increase 17 Mar 12 - installing water meter fiasco 18 Oct 14
Angling in the Bourne Eau – fish no longer there 16 Feb 02
Animals and ownership (TFTW) 21 Apr 01
Antiques losing their popularity 9 Feb 08
Anti-social behaviour – growing concern at public meeting 24 Jan 04 - anti-social behaviour officer appointed by SKDC 25 Sep 04 - anti-social behaviour at Else Park/town centre – police act 2 Oct 10
Apologies could cut court cases 5 Oct 13 - public apologies from past times 1820 &1821 5 Oct 13
Apples and scrumping in the Wellhead Gardens 17 Sep 05 - apples in abundance for apple crumble 7 Oct 06 - apple a day proverb (TFTW) 7 Oct 06
April Fools’ Day hoax re poppies 1 Apr 00 - newspaper jokes are now out of date 2 Apr 05 - hoax re Bourne Castle painting 1 Apr 06
Arcades – meaning etc/Burghley Centre 3 Sep 05
Archbishop of Canterbury – quote on appointment (TFTW) 2 Feb 02
The Archers - claim over origins disputed 31 Aug 13 - villager disputes Rippingale pub claims 4 Jan 14
Bourne Diary Index - 6
Archive items: - feeding Edward I in 1301 5 Sep 09 - town tearaway punishment in 1688 9 Jun 07, 8 Aug 09 & 2 Oct 10 - apprentice absconder from Morton in 1716 15 Jun 13 - wealthy recluse, aged 102, found dead in 1790 20 Feb 10 & 15 Dec 12 - abbey may date from 161 – 1793 quote 11 Apr 09 - soup recipe for the poor in 1800 8 Dec 07 - mother jailed after three illegitimate births in 1811 31 Mar 07 - girl dies of fright in 1813 2 Dec 06 & 24 Oct 09 - the Rippingale giantess from 1815 9 May 09 & 26 Jul 14 - stagecoach overturns in 1821 25 May 13 - abscondees and runaways from 1820 and 1823 15 Apr 06 - weddings at Haconby 1820/Dunsby 1823 18 Feb 06 & 10 Sep 11 - man, 66, weds girl, 21, at Dunsby in 1823 20 Jul 13 - rumours over Baston man’s death in in 1823 30 Nov 13 - carrier drunk in charge of waggon and horses in 1824 9 Nov 13 - rats attack baby at Morton in 1823 8 Nov 14 - stagecoach kills pedlar in 1829 12 Jul 14 - maize crop grown at Dyke in 1829 9 Aug 14 - old soldier dies a pauper at Morton in 1831 19 Jul 14 - bride caught shop-lifting in 1831 2 Aug 14 - dangerous carriage driving in 1833 4 Oct 14 - sex assault and fight at the Red Lion in 1833 17 Jan 15 - eccentric character dies at Scottlethorpe in 1837 29 Apr 06 - John Close transported for stealing in 1838 9 Jun 07 - sewage causes health hazard in North Street in 1838 14 Jan 12 - Henry Dawson transported to Tasmania in 1841 for theft 24 Sep 05 - John Hudson dies after drink in 1842 22 Oct 05 - horse hair theft in 1844 7 Feb 14 - Billingborough man sets light to himself in 1844 15 Mar 14 - crime wave in Bourne in 1848 29 Jun 13 - cow doctor treats girl in 1848 28 Jun 14 - citizens spot teenage theft from shop in 1848 13 Sep 14 - girl seeks transportation in 1848 5 Jul 14 - commercial traveller shot near Bourne in 1849 16 Aug 14 - man died by act of God in 1850 4 Mar 06 - steamer trips to Boston in 1850 5 Jul 14 - vagrant girl gives birth at roadside in 1850 10 May 14 - smart police work to arrest pickpocket in 1850 13 Sep 08 - swindlers at the Bull Inn in 1854 24 Mar 12 - Haconby boy, aged 2, burned to death in 1855 17 Mar 07 - girl, aged 6, burned to death in 1855 17 Mar 07 - man dies in Nag’s Head in 1855 10 Jul 04 & 26 Jun 10 & 8 Dec 12 - capture of a housebreaker in 1855 4 Oct 08 - vicar in hot water for being late in 1857 19 May 07 - mad dogs are large in the countryside in 1857 14 Apr 07 - rowdyism in church at Langtoft in 1857 26 May 07 - overseer/rate collectors job in 1858 chosen by public vote 13 Sep 03 - workhouse girl dies after giving birth in 1858 16 Feb 08 - hunting incident from 1859 26 Feb 05 Bourne Diary Index - 7
- postal services same day delivery in 1860 6 Dec 14 - boy, aged 3, drowned in river near Abbey Church in 1861 21 Jan 06 - rare birds captured and shot in 1861 17 Jan 09 - baby buried in cemetery in 1862 18 Mar 06 - runaway carriage when horse bolts in 1863 16 Aug 08 - highwaymen and footpads in 1864 20 Sep 03 & 31 Oct 09 - Methodist Chapel ended rowdyism at Tongue End in 1864 25 Aug 07 - confidence tricksters in the 19th century – J Partridge 13 Sep 03 - “The Screw Trick” of 1866 27 Sep 03 - Mr Fox dead on railway line rumour from 1866 22 Mar 14 - second coming of Christ trickster in 1865 6 Apr 13 - fox hunting incident from 1868 5 Jul 03 - forged notes at Pickworth in 1869 5 Dec 09 - snow slides in street/woman injured in 1870 26 Jan 13 & 4 Jan 14 - shops opening hours – memories of 1872 6 Sep 03 - woodland bark peelers dispute in 1872 8 Mar 08 - fires in farm stacks hazard in 1872 15 Jun 13 - marathon walker of 1873 27 Nov 04 & 9 Aug 14 - train crash into crossing gates in 1873 13 Apr 13 - Christmas at the big house 25 Dec 04 - game dealer killed in cart crash in 1874 7 Jan 06 - giant melon at Hanthorpe in 1874 10 Jun 06 - early morning cricket in 1874 19 Apr 14 - apprentice beaten by master at Witham-on-the-Hill in 1875 15 Jun 13 - a hoopoe shot at Graby in 1875 21 May 05 - rare birds shot and stuffed by John Evans in 1875 25 Feb 06 - boys with catapults – complaint from 1875 30 Aug 03 - odd wedding at the Abbey Church in 1875 29 Nov 08 - Derby Day result in 1875 1 Jun 13 - old couple marry at Thurlby chapel in 1876 11 May 13 - dog buried alive at Obthorpe in 1877 13 Jul 02 - reading in the new vicar at the Abbey Church in 1877 24 Nov 07 - May garlands at Morton in 1877 4 May 13 - opening of the Star Lane Board School in 1877 14 Sep 13 - collecting hazel nuts in Bourne Wood in 1877 27 Sep 14 - youths fined for blocking pavement in 1878 23 Mar 13 - shop assistant jailed for bacon theft in 1879 17 Apr 04 & 14 Nov 09 - milkman drowns at Toft in 1880 21 Nov 09 & 19 Jun 10 - cow walks through North Street house in 1880 23 Feb 13 - Abbey Church fire from 1882 20 Feb 13 - man jailed for stealing cow in 1883 8 Sep 07 - minister befriends accused in court case in 1884 12 Apr 08 & 2 Nov 13 - last orders/man drops dead in pub in 1885 10 Dec 05 & 8 Dec 12 - flowers at Dyke in cold spring from 1886 6 Apr 13 - August Bank Holiday celebrations in 1886 24 Aug 13 - train fireman catches partridge in 1886 13 Sep 14 - Grimsthorpe picnic in 1887 24 Aug 13 - Christmas in Bourne in 1887 24 Dec 05 - bride sued for cost of wedding dress in 1887 9 Mar 13 - pleasurable pursuits with woodland picnic in 1888 30 Sep 06 Bourne Diary Index - 8
- Ostler fountain vandalised in 1888 15 Feb 03 & 31 Jul 10 - drunkenness in Bourne – figures for 1888 (TFTW) 8 Feb 03 - fifteen tramps – the court case of 1889 13 Mar 04 - cathedral precentor falls into the Bourne Eau in 1890 3 Apr 10 - alert PC catches meat thieves in 1891 9 Aug 03, 4 Feb 12 & 18 Jan 14 - runaway horse and carriage in 1892 17 Feb 07 & 25 May 13 - wealthy tramp found begging in 1893 12 Jan 13 & 7 Dec 13 - bell ringer at Abbey Church injured in 1895 15 Feb 14 - stampede of cattle in 1896 13 Mar 10 - boy shoots himself in field with pistol in 1897 13 May 06 - girl dies after being hit by teacher in 1899 21 Jan 06 & 28 Apr 12 - Corn Exchange hit by lightning in 1889 18 May 13 - man in lion’s den from 1899 27 Apr 13 - Harrington charity distribution in 1900 5 Jan 13 - hard labour for stealing boots in 1900 28 May 05 - grizzly bear found in fen in 1901 28 Mar 09 - schoolboy dies from consumption in 1904 2 Oct 04 - girl dies after dash to hospital in 1906 4 Sep 04 & 24 Sep 11 - snow in Bourne in 1907 (newspaper report) 10 Jan 04 - ptomaine poisoning in 1913 24 Mar 07 - beggar jailed in 1914 court case 7 Jun 03 & 2 Jan 10 - oranges for pupils in 1914 1 Mar 14 - living on 15s. a week – 1915 court case 5 Apr 08 - giant beanstalk in Bourne in 1916 10 Jun 06 - snowstorm of 1916 cuts off Bourne 26 Feb 05 - farmers refuse to put clocks forward in 1916 1 Apr 06 & 3 Apr 10 - sleeping sickness case in Bourne Fen 1921 23 Mar 02 - John Worsdall elected to council aged 80 in 1922 23 Apr 05 - speeding case in town centre from 1924 25 Jan 03 & 12 Feb 11 - sheep damages market crockery stall in 1926 1 Jul 06 & 23 Feb 13 - Wm Matthews steals from church offertory box in 1926 29 Jan 05 - two men in court told to be friends in 1927 5 Oct 13 - the singing (drunken) fool from 1929 7 Jun 08 - doorstep tricksters talk of good fortune in 1931 13 Jan 07 - New Year celebrated in Bourne in 1932 7 Jan 06 - Lincolnshire Show visited Bourne in 1939 18 Jun 05 - Christmas draws in 1949 23 Dec 06 - topless girls banned from Corn Exchange in 1964 3 Jun 06 - Festival of Beat attracts 2,000 in 1964 10 Jun 06 - flu epidemic in 1970 11 Jan 14 - Wellhead Gardens damaged by vandals in 1977 30 May 09
Aristotle – quote re ideas (TFTW) 21 Jan 12 - quote re democracy (TFTW) 21 Jun 14
Armed Forces Day – respect for our soldiers needed 25 Apr 09
Arnhem connection with Bourne 24 Nov 01 - Arnhem connection with Bourne 25 Sep 04 - mortar bomb discovery reminder of Arnhem connection 24 Apr 10 Bourne Diary Index - 9
Arnold, George – quote re charity (TFTW) 27 Aug 05
Art in Bourne – sadly lacking/general view 21 Jul 12
Articles welcomed 23 Nov 02
Asher, Jane – quote re getting on with life (TFTW) 3 Nov 07
Aslackby – sex for sale item from village newsletter 27 Nov 04
Astor, Nancy – her silk cushion loaned to Heritage Centre 17 Jun 06
Atkinson, Brooks – quote re perfect bureaucrat (TFTW) 10 Mar 07
Attacked by cup cake in Abbey Road 31 Aug 02 - others attacked by missiles etc 7 Sep 02
Austen, Jane – quote re sitting outside on a fine day 6 Oct 07 & 11 Jun 11 - quote re natural production inspiring rambling fancy (TFTW) 13 Sep 08 - quote re sending letters through the post (TFTW) 13 Apr 13
Austerby – car parking dispute with BGS pupils 7 May 11 - reaction to my article of May 7 th 21 May 11 - origins of the name/dispute over derivation 11 Jun 11 - parking dispute on hold until September 9 Jul 11 - options for a settlement put forward 22 Oct 11 - headteacher disputes claim that cars will increase 5 Nov 11 - LCC decides to take no action 11 Feb 12
Australian views on Bourne – two differing opinions 25 Aug 01 - Aussie immigration spelling bloomer (TFTW) 9 Nov 02 - Australian trip overland by bus 22 Sep 07
Autumn - in Bourne Woods 20 Nov 99 - autumn blackberries and conkers 20 Oct 01 - thoughts on autumn 27 Sep 03 - in Bourne Wood is golden right now (WTPS) 1 Nov 03 - reflections of the season 15 Nov 03 - the poem by Keats may be over-worked 1 Sep 07 & 27 Oct 12 - delights of autumn/blackberries, conkers, rose hips etc 13 Oct 12 - seasons are a marker in our lives 3 Nov 12
Baby born to mum after car crash fatal (WTPS) 25 Jan 03
Backman, Christina – contribution added to Memories of Times Past 7 Apr 01 - Christmas in England item added to Memories 7 Dec 02
Bourne Diary Index - 10
Balaklava, South Australia – description by Dennis Blue 16 Jun 01
Bakers/butchers push up prices in 1886 (archive item) 27 Mar 04
Baldock’s Mill – restoration of water wheels 3 Aug 02 - water wheels to have names on them 5 Oct 02 - apply to have your name on mill wheel 8 Feb 03 - the names roll in but there is still room 15 Feb 03 - appeal for names of friends and relatives 22 Feb 03 - wheel restoration nearing completion 2 Aug 03 - official opening of wheel restoration project 13 Sep 03 - filter grille on river damaged by vandals 3 Jul 04 - Jim Jones cleans the front of mill/also mill painted 30 Jul 05 - Frederick Baldock and family/mill in Virginia 8 Jul 06 - mill wheel restored and producing electricity 17 May 08 - mill wheel vandalised with billiard cue 28 Jul 12 - graffiti damage to woodwork 9 Mar 13
Balloon over the fen 14 Jul 07
Bandstand project – Wellhead Gardens suggested as a site 16 Jul 11 - move to establish a bandstand by Ccller Helen Powell 3 Mar 12 - Bourne United Charities have reservations 14 Apr 12 - £11,000 and hard core promised from sponsors 5 May 12 - more practical and financial support for project 19 May 12 - project rejected by BUC trustees as unsuitable 14 Jul 12 - Bandstand Marathon planned but no bandstand 4 Aug 12 - mayor’s petition to support project and start new band 11 Aug 12 - new initiative to mark outbreak of Great War 10 Nov 12 - trustees should reconsider/brief resume of events 20 Apr 13 - should be built to support new town band proposal 10 Aug 13 - petition goes online/brief history 14 Jun 14 - petition goes well/history of petitions 21 Jun 14 - petition opposition spreads alarm over Bourne “scum” 28 Jun 14
Bank Holidays of past times recalled (1887) 31 May 03 & 24 Aug 13 - no Bank Holiday at Market Deeping in 1875 23 Aug 03 & 24 Aug 13 - the disadvantages of Bank Holidays 24 Aug 13
Banks & banking - banks offering huge personal loans by post 24 Nov 07 - penny banks of past times 16 Feb 08 - Nationwide customer survey despite low interest rates 6 Dec 08 - too many queues at bans and building societies 17 Apr 10 - cash machine scam at unnamed bank 24 Mar 12 - bank raid by Bourne man in 1848/banking today 26 Apr 14 - “clubs” become friendly approach for customers 31 May 14
Baptist Church – £110,000 refurbishment completed 4 Feb 06
Bourne Diary Index - 11
Barnes, Clive – quote re television (TFTW) 25 Oct 08
Barnes, Simon – quote re wildlife destruction (TFTW) 22 Nov 08
Barn owl sighting 20 Mar 99
Barnatt, Terry – clearing grass verges at Hanthorpe 8 Apr 00
Barrie, J M – quote re kindness (TFTW) 16 Jun 07
Basket works in Burghley Street – a short history 18 Dec 04
Baston village – community spirit and vandalised farm cart 4 Mar 00 - book on being evacuated to the village by David Wynne 4 Nov 00 - village history published 16 Dec 00 - old photo of Hudson’s Mill from Joe Brudenell 17 Feb 01 - unexploded bombs in 1965 22 Jul 06 & 21 Aug 10 - waste recycling centre planned 17 Mar 12 - waste recycling centre given planning permission 21 Apr 12 - Spinning Wheel pub re-opened as White Hart 20 Jul 13
Baston Fen nature reserve & ice-skating 3 Feb 01 - ice skating banned because of insurance problems 1 Feb 03 - ice skating ends/short history 3 Dec 05 - fen reclamation scheme (WTPS) 28 Jan 06
Bats - bat boxes in Bourne Wood 12 Feb 11 - bats leave a mess in church/Bourne Wood species 17 Aug 13
Bates, Terry – Bourne’s Mr Sport dies aged 72 10 Jan 09 - charity cricket matches to continue 29 Aug 09
Battery Car Club/owners meet outside Budgens every morning 14 Oct 06
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – history and appearances 19 Jun 10
Bawden, Sheila – emigrated to US at the age of 72 6 Sep 08
BBC programme on clutter wants contestants 22 Mar 03
Beans – lorry sheds load on A15 at Elsea Park (WTPS) 17 Sep 05
Beauty salon to open in South Street/appraisal of beauty salons 14 Jan 12
Beckett, Margaret – quote re litter a national problem (TFTW) 14 Jul 12
Bedehouse Bank – house collapses in 1924 26 Jul 03
Beecham, Sir Thomas – quote re brass bands (TFTW) 8 Dec 12 Bourne Diary Index - 12
Bees swarm in Mr Stringer’s shop (WTPS) 24 Aug 02 - bees signal a cold winter 20 Nov 10
Bell family of solicitors and offices at 18 West Street 17 Sep 05 - Colonel Bill Bell dies at 100 26 Jan 13
Bell ringing record at Langtoft in 1819 2 Mar 13
Bellamy, Dr David – quote re global warming myth (TFTW) 7 Jul 07
Bellamy, Jessie – apply for new shop front (WTPS) 7 Oct 06
Bench marks – cemetery chapel/South Street registered 24 Feb 07
Beresford, Elisabeth – quote re Wombles motto (TFTW) 24 Jul 10
St Bernard of Clairvaux – quote re the road to hell (TFTW) 30 Apr 11
Berry, Amy – epitaph on Folkingham tombstone 22 Aug 09
Best kept town in 1965 – Bourne 15 Sep 01 - hoping for the best market town of 2005 (WTPS) 28 May 05 - reaction to best kept market town suggestion 4 Jun 05 - archive items from best kept town in 1965/1978 4 Jun 05 - history of best kept town award/plaques now forgotten 9 May 09 - 1965 plaque restored at Abbey Lawn 12 Sep 09
Betjeman, Sir John – quote re childhood (TFTW) 1 Jan 11
Betty James – gala piano concert 26 Jun 99
Bible - quote re peace and goodwill on earth 23 Dec 06 - quote from Matthew re laying up treasures on earth (TFTW) 17 Jan 09 - quote from Matthew re seek and ye shall find (TFTW) 15 Mar 14
Bicycle tax proposed in 1900 (TFTW) 3 May 03
Bierce, Ambrose – quote re history being false (TFTW) 20 Apr 13
Big Brother society has arrived/ too much surveillance 7 Feb 09
Big Society – definition/more unpaid jobs 9 Jul 11 - failing in Bourne over saving old buildings 31 May 14
Billingborough churchyard and tombstones 4 Mar 00 - church vandalised (WTPS) 1 Mar 03
Bill posting in past times 14 Jan 06 & 7 Jul 12 - illegal bill posting in the town 19 Aug 06 Bourne Diary Index - 13
Bills for household continue to rise 9 Apr 05
Binns, Clarence – soldier and adventurer 1897-1975 24 Jun 06
Binns, Raymond (Scrim) – hair-raising drive with Fangio 5 Jun 10
Binyon, Laurence – lines From the Fallen (TFTW) 19 Nov 05
Bira, Prince – short biography and connections with Bourne 24 Mar 07
Birching as a punishment for yob behaviour 2 Oct 10
Bird boxes in Bourne Wood donated by Len Pick Trust 12 Feb 11
Bird scarers 9 Jan 99 - more nuisance 10 Apr 99 - the guns start again 19 May 01 - the gas guns are useless 23 Jun 01 - gas gun fires over Christmas and New Year 3 Jan 04 - gas guns back near Dyke /firing Sundays and at night 25 Feb 06 - firing over Christmas and New Year 5 Jan 08 - petition to the government to ban propane gas guns 5 Jun 10 - gas guns start again off Mill Drove/rules and regulations 18 Dec 10 - gas gun nuisance near Dyke/background to complaints 2 Mar 13
Birds in garden - pheasant on bird table 8 Jan 00 - sparrow perches on my arm 7 Jul 01 - blackbirds and cuckoo 22 May 04 - yellowhammer 5 May 07 Birds under threat in cold weather 20 Jan 01
Birds are disappearing 12 May 01 - decline of the house sparrow 16 May 09
Birds stolen and frozen (TFTW) 8 Dec 01 - rare birds visiting garden 30 Nov 02 - curlews and others shot over Bourne in 19 th century 30 Nov 02 - thrushes in garden & RSPB Birdwatch survey 24 Jan 03 - nyger seed for bird tables 21 Aug 04 - bird numbers in garden reduce further 8 Jan 05 - birds could benefit from stubble fields in winter 9 Apr 05 - birds are pals and could deter nuclear war quote (TFTW) 3 Sep 05 - over five million birds killed by cats (TFTW) 18 Mar 06 - bird boxes attract blue tits 28 Apr 07 - 2008 survey reveals further decline in bird numbers 29 Mar 08 - deaths from cats increases 21 Jun 08 - bird visitors to gardens declines 27 Sep 08 - Defra report says wild birds are declining 8 Nov 08 - morning chorus fading – quote from The Times (TFTW) 8 Nov 08 Bourne Diary Index - 14
- Birdwatch survey recommends varied food for bird tables 28 Mar 09
Birkbeck, J D – warnings over writing Bourne’s history 10 Sep 05
Bismarck quote re telling lies (TFTW) 1 Dec 01
Blackberrying – old tradition 6 Sep 03, 6 Aug 11, 13 Oct 12 & 14 Sep 13 - fewer people collecting blackberries this year 13 Sep 08 - bumper crop/boyhood memories 27 Sep 14
Black panther sightings reported by Stamford Mercury (WTPS) 2 Apr 05
Black swans – SEE ST PETER’S POOL – BLACK SWANS
Blackbird in garden with beautiful song 22 May 04
Blair or Bliar (TFTW) 2 Aug 03 - Blair will go on and on and on (TFTW) 4 Oct 03
Blind boy seeks charity assistance in 1847 7 Jan 06 - more information about Benjamin Hollingworth 14 Jan 06
Blind man Reg Harris in traffic complaints (WTPS) 3 Sep 03
Bluebells stolen from Math and Elsea woods (WTPS) 25 Feb 06
Blue plaques to be phased out/memorials in Bourne 19 Jan 13
Blue, Dennis – description of Balaklava, South Australia 16 Jun 01
Blunden, Edmund – quote re cricket (TFTW) 15 Nov 14
BMX circuit for Bourne Wood – also a history of the sport 29 Nov 08
Boerne, Texas makes contact 11 Sep 10
Boer War – Queen Victoria’s chocolate gift 7 Nov 09
Bog oaks in the fen/some near Dyke 29 Oct 11
Boles, Nick becomes new M P 8 May 10 - new book calls for abolition of SKDC 25 Sep 10 - councillors condemn call for abolition 13 Nov 10 - not a popular M P/summary of career to date 22 Sep 12 - demands more houses at the expense of green fields 1 Jun 13
Bonfire Night - celebrations criticised 4 Nov 00 – nuisance and dangers 3 Nov 01 - general round up/problems in Bourne/Red Hall folklore 2 Nov 02 - the huge and expensive fireworks on sale 18 Oct 03 & 1 Nov 14 Bourne Diary Index - 15
- celebrations from 1877 (tar barrel rolling) 1 Nov 03 - rioting in 1876 6 Nov 04 - Red Hall folklore untrue 17 Jun 06, 3 Nov 07, 22 Oct 11, 1 Nov 14
Bonn University inquiries re Job Hartop 15 Dec 01
Boots - double scan overcharge for goods (Shop Watch) 21 Jan 06
Borage – crop at Wilsthorpe/short history 9 Jul 05
Borland, Hal – quote re autumn (TFTW) 13 Oct 12
Bosley, Victor - the Victor Bosley shield – who was he? 5 Sep 09
Bostock, Howard – headmaster’s landmark speech in 1978 11 Feb 12
Bottle and newspaper banks need moving 8 Nov 01
Bourne – a safe place to live 5 Jun 04 - nothing to do in Bourne, says youth (WTPS) 14 May 05 - the perfect place to live (TFTW) 4 Jun 05 - insufficient police coverage, says Mayor (TFTW) 11 Aug 07 - a perfect place to live although one OAP is leaving 3 Nov 07
Bourne Abbey – churchyard is badly maintained 5 Aug 00
Bourne Abbey seat on LCC – seven contest vacancy 13 Sep 08
Bourne Academy launched 17 Sep 11 (see also Robert Manning College) - the Wake knot in the school sign is wrongly tied 24 Sep 11 - early days in sub-standard accommodation 11 Feb 12
Bourne Band – short history of three bands 11 Aug 12
Bourne Business Chamber blamed for poor Xmas lights 8 Jan 11
Bourne in Bloom – see East Midlands in Bloom
Bourne, Calli – immigrant to the West Indies 30 Aug 08
Bourne Castle – fact or faction 4 Nov 00 - Bourne Castle as a sanatorium 26 Jan 02 - dry spell reveals post holes in the Wellhead Gardens 30 Jul 05 - dry spell patches theory (WTPS) 13 Aug 05 - no entry in the Domesday Book etc (WTPS) 3 Sep 05 - Robert Penhey’s letter in the Stamford Mercury 17 Sep 05 - Channel 4 TV Time Team to investigate Wellhead 8 Oct 05 - electronic survey to be carried out/impartiality needed/ 19 Nov 05 - resume of past historic references to castle 19 Nov 05 Bourne Diary Index - 16
- electronic survey due to start in February (WTPS) 14 Jan 06 - electronic survey results are encouraging (WTPS) 18 Mar 06 - Apr 1 hoax re Bourne Castle painting 1 Apr 06 - survey team 99% certain over castle existence (WTPS) 13 May 06 - definition of the word castle now paramount 22 Jul 06 - new evidence re castle status and moat/1798 directory 29 Jul 06 - Channel 4 Time team will not be investigating/doubts over Castle theory/inadequate evidence etc 14 Jun 08 - postcard view of Bourne “Castle” 27 Jun 09 - new electronic survey planned 15 Aug 09 - Santa castle erected at Waterside Garden Centre 31 Oct 09
Bourne Chamber of Trade & Commerce - angry over my shopping comments 26 Aug 00 - free shopping bags badly designed 7 Jun 08
Bourne children’s hostel – see Children’s hostel
Bourne Choral Society presents Messiah/short history 25 Nov 06 - advent concert/short history 30 Nov 13
Bourne Chronicle book launch 14 May 05
Bourne Cleaners – very efficient business (Shop Watch) 29 Oct 05
Bourne community access point - services may be centred on the Town Hall 19 Jul 08 - Corn Exchange now a possible venue 6 Nov 10 - councils appear to have no idea how to proceed 6 Nov 10 - may be sited at the Corn Exchange 15 Oct 11 - Corn Exchange chosen as the new venue 29 Oct 11 - summary of proposed scheme/makeshift plan 19 Nov 11 - completion by March 2013/may be too many services 31 Dec 11 - planning permission granted/may be overcrowded 21 Jan 12 - financial implications of new arrangement 4 Feb 12 - display of plans at the Corn Exchange 31 Mar 12 - car parking problems envisaged 21 Jul 12 - County News quote re better parking for library 21 Jul 12 & 19 Jan 13 - reader’s letter condemns shortage of car parking spaces 1 Sep 12 - no space for register office weddings 22 Sep 12 - containers used to store market stalls 22 Sep 12 - costs soars to £600,000/staffing and parking problems 19 Jan 13 - extra cost increases council tax 2 Feb 13 - new facility opens to the public 9 Mar 13 - people say it is too small for public and staff 8 Jun 13 - containers used for storage of market stalls 14 Sep 13 - main area re-designed to create more space 12 Apr 14
Bourne community web site launched 4 Aug 01
Bourne Diary Index - 17
Bourne Cow Club – a short history 14 Aug 04 & 29 Jun 13
Bourne Cricket Club - Lords Taverners to play Bourne Cricket Club (WTPS) 5 Jul 03 - match raises £13,000 and Chris Tarrant here (WTPS) 26 Jul 03 - pavilion badly damaged by fire (WTPS) 15 Jul 06 - history of 1965 pavilion fire 15 Jul 06 - insurance assessors say pavilion fire was arson (WTPS) 26 Aug 06
Bourne Diary committed to CD 1 Feb 14
Bourne Eau – name derivation 2 Oct 99 - excavations in Wellhead Gardens to improve flow 13 Oct 01 - no fish left 16 Feb 02 - fish return to the river 15 Jun 02 - low water levels caused by over-extraction 3 Aug 02 - follow up of low water levels (WTPS) 10 Aug 02 - rubbish in 1972 cleared by young volunteers 31 May 03 & 7 Jan 12 - stretch behind Eastgate is clogged with weeds 14 Jun 03 - neglected river article added to web site 28 Jun 03 - neglected river in 1892 26 Jul 03 - rubbish piles up outside Baldock’s Mill 3 Jul 04 - council criticism of neglected river in July 1954 16 Oct 04 - blocked by rubbish alongside old cress beds 2 Jun 07 - pile driving behind Baldock’s Mill 5 Jul 08 - history of name derivation 17 Jan 09 - duck house to be replaced 1 May 10 - South Street section of the river to be improved 12 Nov 11 - Bourne Eau dries up but who is to blame? 7 Jan 12 - river being drained dry in 1992/protest to NRA 7 Jan 12 - water extraction may be to blame for dry river bed 11 Feb 12 - badly needs maintenance/history 13 Jun 15
Bourne Festival in jeopardy because of noise nuisance (WTPS) 23 Apr 05 - festival gets go ahead with noise reduced (WTPS) 21 May 05 - Bourne Festival – an appraisal/details of 1964 event 10 Jun 06 - may be cancelled for 2007 through lack of sponsor (WTPS) 5 May 07 - festival cancelled through lack of sponsor (WTPS) 12 May 07 - sponsors needed for the 2010 event 6 Mar 10
Bourne Forum opens 3 Apr 99 - complaint about uninteresting subjects 8 Sep 01 - courtesy reigns supreme 15 Dec 01 - all advertising and pop-ups removed 18 Jan 03 - comment on Iraq war dries up 5 Apr 03 - progress and varied topics discussed 31 Jan 04 - complaint re contribution by Ccller Cudmore 24 Dec 05 - history of Bourne by Peter Sharpe - best posting of 2005 24 Dec 05 - Forum closes down after 15 years 15 Jun 13
Bourne Diary Index - 18
Bourne Golf Club – see also Golf 28 Aug 10
Bourne Grammar School - status 28 Nov 98 – sculpture 20 Nov 99 – memories by Janice Leonard 24 Mar 01 - grammar school reunion a success 13 Oct 01 - expansion scheme costing £1.25 million (WTPS) 29 Mar 03 - France cancels exchange visit (WTPS) 12 Apr 03 - £1.3 million extension announced (WTPS) 25 Oct 03 - head teacher Dr Stuart Miles resigns 24 Jul 04 - statement by governors re resignation (WTPS) 24 Jul 04 - bidding for a new arts centre (WTPS) 16 Jul 05 - may take pupils from Stamford if scholarships end (WTPS) 1 Jul 06 - car parking dispute with Austerby residents 7 May 11 - reaction to my article of May 7 th 21 May 11 - bid for academy status vetoed by Bourne United Charities 28 May 11 - BUC give go ahead for academy status 25 Jun 11 - academy status from 1 Jan 2012 14 Jan 12 - Prince Philip to visit in April 16 Mar 13 - school badge explained 15 Mar 14
Bourne House Hostel – former matron Pat Schmid dies 26 Apr 14
Bourne Institute – memories of old times by Trevor Pool 30 Aug 03 - memories of the 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrations 6 Mar 10 - newspaper prints inaccurate information about its history 21 May 11
Bourne Links – Services added 22 Feb 03 - feedback from New York School/500 links to date 16 Jun 12
Bourne Local report of street attacks 23 Sep 00 - the correct spelling of lightning (WTPS) 10 Aug 02 - new editor Angela Lowe (WTPS) 7 Sep 02 - few letters being published (WTPS) 24 Apr 04
Bourne, Massachusetts – web site visitors and short history 18 Jun 05
Bourne Music Festival – to continue despite poor attendance 31 Jul 99 - under threat for 2007 through cash problems (WTPS) 17 Mar 07
Bourne Panoramas – new web site of wide angle photos 10 May 03
Bourne Players – praise for latest production 13 Nov 04
Bourne Preservation Society/Trust formed 26 Apr 08 - proposals to save chapel handed to town council 26 Apr 08 - £400,000 repairs estimate must be questioned (WTPS) 26 Apr 08 - delay in decision over chapel take over 3 May 08 - town council hands over chapel for restoration 28 Jun 08 Bourne Diary Index - 19
- town council committee refuses £40,000 grant (WTPS) 26 Jul 08 - full council grants £5,000 with two votes against (WTPS) 9 Aug 08 - delays in lease and taking over chapel 20 Sep 08 - town council sets up working party 18 Oct 08 - estimate for repairs £250,000/similar trust set up at Boston 14 Mar 09 - take over of chapel now going ahead 24 Oct 09 - trust attacks delays in chapel hand-over/decision needed 7 Aug 10 - public concern over delays/reputation of the trust 14 Aug 10 - comparison with the Red Hall fifty years ago 14 Aug 10 - Tesco aid may be forthcoming for chapel 25 Sep 10 - breaks off negotiations with town council 30 Oct 10 - still waiting for a decision over the chapel 4 Feb 12 - ultimatum to town council because of hand over delay 19 Oct 13 - take over the town’s information boards 26 Jul 14 - to take over Old Grammar School/ambitious project 11 Oct 14 - more volunteers needed 11 Oct 14
Bourne Residents Actions Group (BRAG) winds up 30 Oct 99
Bourne Textile Services sold for £22 million 8 Mar 14
Bourne Tory Ladies Tea Club folds 3 Jul 10
Bourne Town – name derivation 2 Oct 99 - shopping drive 29 Jul 99 - more on shopping drive 5 Aug 00 - is it untidy and run down? 19 Jan 02 - a great place to live (TFTW) 25 May 02 - deteriorates (message from Dennis Blue in Australia) 14 Sep 02 - criticism of the town 16 Nov 02 - a progressive town quote from 1970 (TFTW) 7 Dec 02 - improvements in 1835 (TFTW) 1 Mar 03 - an angry town under siege (WTPS) 13 Mar 04 - praise as a place to live, by John Glen 17 Mar 05
Bourne Town Council - only one person attends annual parish meeting 20 May 00 - cost of Christmas lights controversy 30 Dec 00 - row over the siting of public toilets 27 Jan 01 - also Thought for the Week 27 Jan 01 - history added to web site 23 Jun 01 - councillors miss vital meeting 11 Jan 03 - only 14 nominations for 15 seats at elections (WTPS) 5 Apr 03 - random attendance of councillors criticised 3 Jan 04 - town councillors who miss meetings criticised 29 Jan 05 - poor attendance at meetings/stats from Ccller Kirkman 5 Feb 05 - controversy over pay rise for clerk (WTPS) 19 Feb 05 - division in the council chamber over clerk’s pay rise 26 Feb 05 - misleading figures over council tax rise (WTPS) 26 Feb 05 - dilemma over accommodating the disabled (WTPS) 5 Mar 05 Bourne Diary Index - 20
- new powers to fine litter louts (WTPS) 9 Apr 05 - councillors vote against Guy Cudmore being mayor 4 Feb 06 - quote from Cudmore re losing mayoralty (WTPS) 4 Feb 06 - reputation at low ebb, says Councillor Cudmore 25 Mar 06 - council reputation defended by John Smith (WTPS) 8 Mar 06 - election for vacant seat in Bourne East 18 Nov 06 - Mark Horn wins vacant seat (WTPS) 2 Dec 06 - launches own web site 20 Jan 07 - nominations for May 2007 elections 14 Apr 07 - seeks to expand with addition of a third ward 2 Jun 07 - demands more policemen on the beat (WTPS) 1 Dec 07 - meeting cancelled through lack of business (WTPS) 24 May 08 - vacancy after Guy Cudmore’s resignation 5 Jul 08 - ladies’ council majority gives them petticoat power 23 Aug 08 - frighten the people to pass unpopular decisions 1 Nov 08 - mayoral chain repair dispute/chain may be outdated 21 Mar 09 - clerk writes to newspapers explaining various issues (WTPS) 4 Apr 09 - trustee nomination for Bourne United Charities needs review 11 Jul 09 - restrictions on councillors from commenting 5 Sep 09 - council should put cemetery names on the Internet 17 Oct 09 - plans to replace the South Street lavatories 28 Nov 09 - is the town council necessary?/Grantham does not have one 4 Sep 10 - vacancy arises after Brian Fines resigns/no nominations 9 Oct 10 - Bourne West vacancy/insufficient notice for nominations 16 Oct 10 - week of complaints over Costa Coffee/ BPT and co-option 30 Oct 10 - council co-opts Colin Pattison from three candidates 30 Oct 10 - review of council elections for May 2011 16 Apr 11 - town council election results for 2011 7 May11 - co-option meeting called for Bourne West vacancies 21 May11 - four new councillors co-opted for Bourne West 11 Jun 11 - ladies make their mark/history of membership 18 Jun 11 & 26 May 12 - another co-option likely after resignation 25 Jun 11 - another co-option meeting for Bourne West 23 Jul 11 - Jane Kingman co-opted for Bourne West 30 Jul 11 - first freedom of parish granted/Jade Etherington 5 Apr 14 - bid to take over the Town Hall 26 Apr 14 - Neighbourhood Plan survey misses car parking 2 Aug 14 - confusion over Neighbourhood survey results 25 Oct 14 - five seats short in election to be filled by co-option 9 May 15 - clerk Nelly Jacobs to retire in August/profile 20 Jun 15
Bourne Town Football Club – vandals may force move (TFTW) 11 Aug 01 - memories of their match with Billingborough in 1924 1 Sep 01 - new football ground donated by Len Pick (WTPS) 17 Aug 02 - more vandalism but club blames B United Charities (WTPS) 7 Sep 02 - planning application for new ground 9 Nov 02 - more vandalism at club ground (WTPS) 21 Feb 04 - patrols to stop vandalism (WTPS) 28 Feb 04 - volunteers needed to help run club/short history (WTPS) 11 Jun 05 - Len Pick Suite/clubhouse opened for £100,000 (WTPS) 25 Nov 06 Bourne Diary Index - 21
- arsonists try to set fire to grandstand (WTPS) 2 Jun 07 - windows boarded up to deter vandals 20 Jun 09 - the Victor Bosley shield – who was he? 5 Sep 09
Bourne Town Harriers – Christmas handicap run 8 Jan 11
Bourne Town Juniors – store damaged in arson attack (WTPS) 24 May 08
Bourne United Charities – an appraisal 11 Oct 03 - BUC answer criticism over Wellhead Gardens (WTPS) 18 Oct 03 - no statement on grant aid for the Butterfield Centre 29 Nov 03 - their financial responsibilities towards our heritage 13 Dec 03 - no grant yet to the Butterfield Centre (WTPS) 17 Jan 04 - grant of £1,000 to the Butterfield Centre 7 Feb 04 - trustee vacancy should be advertised 7 Feb 04 - old water cress beds to be skateboard park (WTPS) 22 May 04 - too much secrecy – quote by Cller Guy Cudmore (TFTW) 17 Jul 04 - neglecting duties as riparian owners along the Eau 16 Oct 04 - weeds around the War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday 20 Nov 04 - no reply to weeds criticism from Bourne United Charities 4 Dec 04 - idle millions should be used to help the Butterfield 8 Jan 05 - should contribute to old buildings (Dennis Staff) 12 Feb 05 - older trustees should stand down (in Green Flag item) 6 Aug 05 - trustees deny secrecy at meetings (WTPS) 10 Sep 05 - trustee Shirley Cliffe defends state of St Peter’s Pool (WTPS) 15 Oct 05 - silence re criticism of Wellhead Gardens 12 Nov 05 - criticism of policy of silence (in item re Len Pick Trust) 28 Jan 06 - BUC should fund CCTV at the Abbey Lawn (WTPS) 15 Jul 06 - should BUC finance restoration of the cemetery chapel? 28 Jan 08 - more information is needed from them (WTPS) 28 Mar 08 - policy of secrecy to continue 19 Apr 08 - needs to liaise with the public more 31 May 08 - word needed on footpath from South Street 5 Jul 08 - whereabouts of school boat to clean St Peter’s Pool? 18 Oct 08 - cost of Abbey Lawn fencing/current financial state 13 Dec 08 - newspaper letter attacks state of the Wellhead Gardens 18 Apr 09 - trustee selection in need of review 11 Jul 09 - BUC launches its own web site 10 Apr 10 - letter of support for their work in The Local 19 Nov 11
Bourne Volunteers – report of their formation in 1915 27 Apr 02
Bourne water history 2 Oct 99
Bourne web site: - anonymous entries 8 May 99 - attack on our integrity by anonymous contributors 10 Mar 01 - B B C History magazine uses a web site photograph 31 Mar 01 - B B C here to film 25 Sep 99 - business & industry section added 20 Oct 01 Bourne Diary Index - 22
- CD-ROM goes on sale 7 Oct 00 - copyright stressed 7 Jul 01 - Wisconsin school uses photos on their web site 7 Jul 01 - critic in the Guest Book 7 Oct 00 - Diary landmark of 100th entry 2 Dec 00 - Diary landmark of 200th entry 30 Nov 02 - electronic postcard feature launched 29 May 99 - Forum opens 3 Apr 99 - family history page launched 15 Jan 00 - Lincolnshire Archives accept CD-ROM 17 Feb 01 - links on site 4 May 02 - mailing list appeal 10 Mar 01 - Memories of Times Past feature added 3 Feb 01 - Memories of Times past appeal for contributions 23 Feb 02 - messenger for email from Canada 25 Sep 99 - new look design introduced 10 Feb 01 - refused permission to photograph 18 Mar 00 - mystery visitor from Thailand 20 May 00 - new Scoot facility added 29 Apr 00 - newly weds join Friends list 18 Sep 99 - Notice Board opens 21 Aug 99 - Notice Board section for Personal announcements added 4 Aug 01 - Panama added to visitors’ list 7 Jul 01 - “perceptive and thoughtful” quote from B Sheppard 12 Oct 02 - photographs will include rotten buildings from now on 11 Nov 00 - polling feature added 12 May 01 - progress report/Langtoft added 17 Jun 00 - schools added 03 Mar 01 - translated into German 9 Jun 01 - web site visitors and bad dreams 28 Jul 00 - Web Trends feature added 28 Jul 01 - Forum re-designed with new guidelines 8 Dec 01 - halted by computer problems 19 Jul 03 - five years old this week 9 Aug 03 - Then and Now: new photo series starts 3 Sep 03 - web site quiz begins today 3 Sep 03 - aims and objectives re-stated 27 Sep 03 - re-designed 26 Jun 04 - six years old this week/resume of its history 7 Aug 04 - Diary reaches No 300 27 Nov 04 - seven years old this week/resume of its history 13 Aug 05 - information required/new feature introduced 3 Sep 05 - mailing list re-organisation complete 28 Jan 06 - 8th anniversary of web site 12 Aug 06 - breakdown for two days by Which Online 7 Apr 07 - Peeps into the Past – new web site feature introduced 30 Jun 07 - nine years old this week 11 Aug 07 - IT expert wants to add advertising 11 Aug 07 - visitor from the Offutt air base in the USA 11 Aug 07 - ten years old this week 9 Aug 08 Bourne Diary Index - 23
- 500th edition of Diary 25 Oct 08 - 11th anniversary of web site 8 Aug 09 - major redesign and updating 14 Nov 09 - Christmas break 19 Dec 09 - changes colour from sky blue to grey 8 May 10 - 12th anniversary marked 14 Aug 10 - Diary marks 600th edition 9 Oct 10 - mailing list produces Christmas greetings 18 Dec 10 - Christmas break 18 Dec 10 - visitor figures summary since we began 8 Jan 11 - 14th anniversary 4 Aug 12 - Diary’s 800th edition 8 Nov 14 - break for Christmas/New Year 2014 20 Dec 14 - last Diary entry/round up of entries 24 Jan 15
Bourne web site praise - web site praise – Ester Ronen 19 Dec 98 - web site praise – Tokyo ex-patriate 17 Jul 99 - award from The Oldie 7 Aug 99 - award from Golden Web Awards 29 Jul 00 - award from Médaille d’Or organisation 21 Apr 01 - award from Which Online 23 Dec 00 - web site praise for Webmaster 7 Jul 01 - quote from Washington State about great web site 8 Dec 01 - wonderful web site says man from Hampshire 8 Mar 03 - praise from Forth Worth, Texas 8 May 04 - praise from New Jersey, USA 29 May 04 - Tucson, Arizona, USA – parent thanks web site 25 Jun 05 - praise from Milton, Ontario 16 Jul 05 - praise from New York 20 Aug 05 - from Muncie, Indiana, USA 25 Feb 06 - from Salem, South Carolina 25 Feb 06 - from Muncie, Indiana 25 Mar 06 - from Salem, South Carolina, USA 8 Jul 06 - from Oregon, USA 25 Nov 06 - from Quebec, Caanada 16 Dec 06 - from Victoria, Australia 23 Dec 06 - from Kissimmee, Florida, USA 17 Mar 07 - from Amelia Island, Florida 11 Aug 07 - from Kent, Washington State, USA 13 Oct 07 - from Hitchin, Herts 14 Nov 09 - from Camperdown, Victoria, Australia 18 Dec 10
Bourne web site – statistics: - visitors logging on from various countries, the latest list 22 Dec 01 - popularity increases/statistics graph 25 Dec 04 - stat counter/visitors/forum contributions 4 Jun 05 - visitor figures for 2005 24 Dec 05 - visitors increase weekly/progress report 23 Dec 06 - 1,249 visitors in one day (8 Nov 08) 15 Nov 08 Bourne Diary Index - 24
Bourne Wood – hunting and shooting criticised 20 Feb 99 - Ancient Woodland Project 17 Mar 01 - foot and mouth diseases closes woods 17 Mar 01 - rustic seats an asset 20 Feb 99 - autumn in the woods 20 Nov 99 - all night rave makes too much noise 1 Jul 00 - forester John Wilcockson on job swap to Australia 20 Jan 01 - dog dirt problem 22 Sep 01 - dog dirt statement from Forest Enterprise 13 Oct 01 - was Gladiator filmed here? 2 Feb 02 - another Gladiator mistake - from the Forestry Commission 17 Apr 04 - produced wood for hurling sticks (WTPS) 2 Aug 03 - bark peeling dispute in 1872 30 Aug 03 - first wedding is a pagan ceremony (WTPS) 13 Sep 03 - two wood wardens appointed (WTPS) 20 Sep 03 - rare Leisler’s bats breeding there (WTPS) 18 Oct 03 - autumn colours proliferate (WTPS) 1 Nov 03 - deer may be culled for food 10 Jan 04 - hazel nuts can be found here 17 Jul 04 & 23 Aug 14 - proposals for a bypass through the wood (WTPS) 7 Aug 04 - bypass will not go through the wood (WTPS) 14 Aug 04 - nuclear waste site was planned here (WTPS) 25 Jun 05 - dog dirt a problem and from horses 5 Aug 06 - perfect place for Christmas & New Year walks 6 Jan 07 - bark peeling dispute in 1872 8 Mar 08 & 1 May 10 - toilets to close 10 May 08 - closure of toilets may be illegal (WTPS) 25 Oct 08 - proposal to install gym equipment vetoed 3 Apr 10 - failure of woodland sculpture project 3 Apr 10 - dogs banned in past times 1 May 10 - threat from government woodland sell off 5 Feb 11 - bat and bird boxes 12 Feb 11 - success of bird boxes 4 Jun 11 - newspaper report on new wood signs confusing 16 Jul 11 - springtime in the wood/memories from 1874/75 23 Mar 13 - bat species in the woods 17 Aug 13 - woodland sculptures deteriorating 9 Aug 14 - memories of nutting in Bourne Wood 23 Aug 14 - the nutting season in Bourne Wood 3 Oct 15
Bourne Wood – road proposal - threatened by housing development 19 Jan 08 - Forestry Commission to sell part of wood (WTPS) 1 Mar 08 - Forestry Commission gives more details of wood sale 8 Mar 08 - opposition to wood sale (WTPS) 8 Mar 08 - any planning application likely to be called in 8 Mar 08 - Friends of Bourne Wood reveal road plans on web site 22 Mar 08 - Ccller Mark Horn suggests public meeting by developers 12 Apr 08 - visitor amenities under threat/bats may be an obstacle 19 Apr 08 Bourne Diary Index - 25
- SKDC will not support the road 31 May 08 - road proposal called off by F Commission and developers 28 Jun 08
Bowls – short mat club launched by Robert Kitchener 16 Oct 10 - history of Bourne Town Bowls Club 16 Oct 10
Bowthorpe Oak – chosen for Jubilee Year 4 Jan 03 - to feature on French TV 22 Feb 14
Braceborough collector Alfred Elliott 11 Dec 99 - in the days when it was Braceborough Spa 2 Feb 01
Branston’s old shop in Eastgate sold/history 5 Mar 05 - new owner takes over 28 May 05
Brass band proposal for Bourne 10 Aug 13
Bread and circuses – quote from Roman history in TFTW 2 Jun 01
Brewery to open/history of brewing in Bourne 25 Feb 12
Brightmore, Joseph – stagecoach overturns in 1821 25 May 13
British Gas - servicing and selling is illegal 23 May 09
British Summer Time in 1916 – but not for farmers 14 Aug 04
British Telecom - broadband debate 15 Feb 03 - BT Helpline is most unhelpful 16 Jun 07 - battle over broadband failure 10 Nov 07 - broadband failure/shortcomings of BT faults’ service 17 Nov 07
Britton, Robbie – letter criticises SKDC in The Local (WTPS) 3 Dec 05 - letter in The Local criticises my articles 23 May 09
BRM - visit by R Abbott – added to Memories of Times Past 14 Apr 01 - roll call of workers added to web site 25 Oct 03 - silverware goes on display at Heritage Centre 11 Jun 05 - Stewart’s Monza cup flown to Italy for 40 th anniversary 10 Sep 05 - Stewart’s Monaco Grand Prix cup flown to Monte Carlo 20 May 06 - P25 car from 1958 for sale at £1 million 25 Nov 06 - Dick Salmon, former mechanic, launches new book 16 Dec 06 - poster of 1962 Snetterton meeting 25 Jul 09 - workshops to be demolished for new housing 12 Dec 09 - 50th anniversary celebrations suggested 3 Jul 10 - 50th anniversary celebrations/fan coming from Holland 2 Jun 12 - BRM day preparations 1 Sep 12 - BRM association formed to perpetuate the success 13 Jul 13 - BRM Trail to be established in the town 1 Feb 14
Bourne Diary Index - 26
Brooke, Rupert – quote from The Soldier (TFTW) 10 Nov 07 - quote from The Soldier (TFTW) 7 Nov 09
Brooks, E B – quote re Christmas wrapping (TFTW) 27 Nov 10
Brooks, William – the tale of a teapot 6 Dec 14
Brothers, Dr Joyce – quote re buying on credit (TFTW) 9 Feb 08
Browne, Sir Thomas - quote re charity begins at home (TFTW 7 Feb 04, 10 Apr 10 & 6 Apr 13
Browning, Edward – involvement with church buildings 2 Aug 08
Browning, Robert - parody of poem (Thought for the Week) 31 Mar 01
Broxholme, Charlie – memorial seat at Dyke village 30 Jun 07 - Pat Broxholme dies 29 Sep 07
Buckberry, Mary – lives to be 100 and the Mother of Bourne 12 Feb 05 - story of Mary plus Bourne centenarians 15 Aug 09
Buddle, the Rev Adam gave his name to the buddleia 23 Apr 05 - buddleia fails to attract butterflies this year/short history 18 Aug 07 - a few more butterflies this year/short history 3 Aug 13
Budgens and their bargains 9 Mar 02 - checkouts reduced – are they closing (Shop Watch) 26 Mar 05 - in talks with Waitrose for take over (WTPS) 15 Mar 08 - Budgens supermarket closes – a short history 5 Apr 08 - effect on the town of empty premises (WTPS) 5 Apr 08 - false hopes for a new tenant 20 Mar 10 - opens new store at garage in South Road 7 Sep 13
Budget Day and higher taxes (TFTW) 16 Mar 02
Buildings under threat – Town Hall/Wake House/chapel 31 May 14
Bulby wayside oak 23 Jan 99
Bullock, William – farmed at Stow, near Bourne circa 1860 19 Jun 04
Burchnell, Jack – his public record 4 Jan 03
Bureaucracy – quote from Charles Dickens (TFTW) 13 Oct 01
Burghley Arms closes/new landlord sought 2 Nov 13 - back in business with new landlord/repairs to frontage 30 Nov 13
Burghley Centre – design criticism 13 Feb 99 Bourne Diary Index - 27
- classical music to deter hooligans 17 Aug 02 - under-age drinking attracts police attention (WTPS) 19 Oct 02 - survey of under-age drinking by Stamford Mercury (WTPS) 26 Oct 02 - should not be called an arcade, say traders 3 Sep 05 - seats removed/car parking restricted to two hours 16 Oct 10
Burghley Street - road safety hazard 18 Nov 00 - parking on double yellow lines while washing car 27 Apr 02 - Grade II listed house (West Street frontage) renovated 17 Sep 05
Burghley Street warehouse will be saved (WTPS) 5 Mar 05 - warehouse should be an arts centre 10 May 08 - development sign from SKDC goes up on wall/history 10 Oct 09 - warehouse offered to let by SKDC 23 Jan 10 - should be offered for use as an arts centre 23 Jan 10 - council seeks tenant/arts centre should be considered 30 Jul 11 - flats will be sold for investment/summary of project 6 Apr 13 - windows “ inappropriate” in refurbishment scheme 21 Sep 13
Burglaries increase in hot weather (WTPS) 16 Aug 03 - more burglar alarms installed but are they effective? 9 May 09
Burial charges likely to go up drastically (WTPS) 2 Nov 02
Burke, Edmund – quote about elections (TFTW) 25 Jun 11 - quote about good men doing nothing (TFTW) 9 Mar 13 & 16 Aug 14
Burns, George – quote re running the country (TFTW) 26 Nov 05
Bush not to have procession through London (TFTW) 25 Oct 03
Business & industry added to web site 20 Oct 01
Bus passes – confusion over renewal applications 17 Nov 12
Bus station earmarked for closure and sale (WTPS) 22 Oct 05 - opposition to closure from public and councillors (WTPS) 5 Nov 05 - bus station closure a mistake/roundup and a short history 26 Nov 05 - Anthony Delaine-Smith deplores closure (WTPS) 26 Nov 05 - saved from closure, says SKDC leader Linda Neal (WTPS) 7 Jan 06 - three options to be discussed by SKDC (WTPS) 11 Mar 06 - closure mentioned in future development plan (WTPS) 1 Jul 06 - bus station lavatories demolished 5 May 07 - possible closure again/plus short history 18 Jul 09 - earmarked for development/short history 9 Oct 10
Bus transport may be increased in Bourne (WTPS) 1 Jul 06
Butchers sanitise meat to protect the public 1 Mar 14
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Butler, Bishop Joseph – quote re self-deceit (TFTW) 24 Apr 04
Butler, Samuel – quote re life like playing a violin (TFTW) 8 Aug 08 - quote re books like imprisoned souls (TFTW) 29 Jan 11 - quote re autumn (TFTW) 4 Oct 14
Butterfield Day Care Centre in financial trouble 21 Jul 01 - new minibus appeal (WTPS) 28 Sep 02 - threatened with closure (WTPS) 16 Nov 02 - day care centre burgled of £1,000 (WTPS) 27 Sep 03 - liable to close in 2004 (WTPS) 22 Nov 03 - £10,000 appeal launched to save centre (WTPS) 29 Nov 03 - appeal funds by both local newspapers (WTPS) 6 Dec 03 - appeal reaches £6,000 but nothing from BUC (WTPS) 17 Jan 04 - mini-van damaged by vandals (WTPS) 31 Jan 04 - £10,000 appeal target reached (WTPS) 7 Feb 04 - new cash threat to the centre over budget shortfall (WTPS) 20 Nov 04 - cash shortfall should come from local charities 8 Jan 05 - manager Shirley Maile suspended (WTPS) 19 Nov 05 - police called in to investigate fraud (WTPS) 3 Dec 05 - no fraud probe, say trustees (WTPS) 10 Dec 05 - £2,500 grant from town council/finances sound (WTPS) 11 Feb 06
Butterfield Hospital – Sister Bristow gets the MBE 9 Nov 02 - memories of the cottage hospital as NHS proposes a return 4 Feb 06 - fund raising in past times 14 Nov 09 - £4,000 bill for heating leak/Len Pick Trust helps out 14 Jul 12 - opening day in 1910 (archive item) 7 Jun 14
Butterfly species on the decline 29 Jul 06 - small tortoiseshell in the bedroom 7 Dec 13
Buy it in Bourne shopping campaign (WTPS) 21 Feb 09 - campaign little more than a parlour game (WTPS) 7 Mar 09
Buzzards return to Bourne Wood 7 Jul 01
Byng, John – visits the Bourne area in 1791 19 Jan 08
Byron, Lord George – quote re being famous (TFTW) 27 Jun 09
Cactus nurseries win gold awards 3 Jul 10
Caesar, Julius – quote re something unexpected (TFTW) 21 Aug 10
Cairncross, Frances – quote re spending cuts (TFTW) 11 Aug 12
Callow, Howard & Nicola of Tongue End write in about the fens 12 Jan 02
Cameron, David – “Elected officials are accountable” (TFTW) 12 May 07 Bourne Diary Index - 29
Campbell, Malcolm – connection with Raymond Mays 26 Jan 08
Camus, Albert – quote re definition of a rebel (TFTW) 8 Jul 06 - quote re autumn (TFTW) 5 Oct 13
Candle wax melts into Buddha (WTPS) 5 Jul 03
Caning in schools/Punishment Book entries 28 Apr 12
Cannabis – poll over legalisation 21 Jul 01
Capital punishment debate 23 Jun 01
Car abandoned in town centre car park (Thought for the Week) 17 Mar 01 - still not removed by police so reported to S K D C 24 Mar 01 - still not removed 7 Apr 01 - finally removed 21 Apr 01
Car boot sales booming after Rainbow supermarket holds one 15 Apr 06
Car crash 4th Mar 2002 – Rex & Elke 16 Mar 02 - good wishes from various sources and progress report 30 Mar 01 - still improving 6 Apr 02 - aftermath & other driver escapes prosecution 31 Aug 02
Car crime – vehicle stolen from outside owner’s home (TFTW) 11 Jan 03
Car Dyke – added to web site 20 Jan 01 - a short history of the Car Dyke 16 Aug 08 - archaeological dig may reveal course of dyke 3 Oct 09 - Google links may not always be reliable 10 Oct 09
Carlby village – a history by Ian Dair 26 Mar 05 - railway bridge to be demolished/short history 28 Oct 06
Carlton ironmongers erroneous reporting (WTPS) 7 Sep 02
Carnegie, Andrew, connection with public library 5 Apr 03 - quote re law of competition (TFTW) 29 May 10
Car parking at Harlow in Essex means kerbside charges (TFTD) 15 May 04
Car parking in Bourne - fees on the cards for Bourne 1 Sep 01 - parking rumpus continued and web site poll 8 Sep 01 - parking fees again likely for Bourne (WTPS) 8 Nov 03 - pay parking may have been averted for Bourne (WTPS) 3 Jan 04 - pay parking nears for Bourne town (WTPS) 28 Feb 04 - protest letters from newspaper readers (WTPS) 6 Mar 04 Bourne Diary Index - 30
- protest petitions from both local newspapers (WTPS) 13 Mar 04 - the campaign hots up but should councillors resign? (WTPS) 20 Mar 04 - over 2,000 sign protest petition in Bourne (WTPS) 27 Mar 04 - decision day looms with 4,000 protest signatures (WTPS) 24 Apr 04 - pay parking shelved for the time being 1 May 04 - newspaper coverage of council meeting (WTPS) 1 May 04 - pay parking issue not yet over (WTPS) 8 May 04 - pay parking on the way, says the council grapevine 25 Mar 06 - Burghley Street car park has 91 places 29 Apr 06 - St Paul’s Gardens to be widened (WTPS) 17 Jun 06 - parking sign in North Street points the wrong way 30 Sep 06 - pay parking again on the cards (WTPS) 28 Jan 08 - SKDC say car parking is being considered (WTPS) 23 Aug 08 - SKDC scrap pay parking proposals 6 Sep 08 - history of car parking/number of current spaces 13 Sep 08 - confusion as parking returns to council agenda (WTPS) 11 Oct 08 - pay parking again deferred (WTPS) 18 Oct 08 - police sign over theft from cars criticised 15 Aug 09 - parking bays may be getting smaller 29 Jan 11 - indiscriminate kerbside parking in Bourne 29 Jan 11 - Wherry’s Lane development will cost 16 spaces 3 Sep 11 - shortage of spaces/lost opportunities/future prospects 21 Jul 12 - 14 spaces lost in Burghley Street car park 29 Jun 13 - Burghley Street 14 spaces reinstated temporarily 14 Dec 13 - parking restrictions now needed in town 5 Jul 14 - no more spaces, says council despite vacant lot 2 Aug 14 - now a major issue/history of parking in town 28 Mar 15
Carpet layers – poor service in past times 12 Jul 08
Carson, Johnny – post early for Christmas quote (TFTW) 6 Dec 14
Carson, Rachel, author of Silent Spring 12 May 01 - quote re beauty of the earth (TFTW) 9 Dec 06
Cats go missing in Bourne area (WTPS) 15 Feb 03
Casboult, Chris – author of Ballad of Nancy Rutter 16 Mar 02
Cassandra quote re astrology (TFTW) 10 Aug 02
Careby – new lychgate for the church 8 Jul 00
Care homes for the elderly (WTPS) 10 Aug 02
Carlton, Trissie – memories of the past 1 Jul 00
Cars on the road – the spread of King Car 25 Jul 15
Carnegie, Andrew – quote re charity (TFTW) 21 Jun 08 Bourne Diary Index - 31
Carter, Jimmy – quote re ancestry (TFTW) 14 Apr 12
Cash machines – history and various frauds 25 Aug 12
Castle Bytham trees dispute 23 Jan 99 - new village history launched 2 Sep 00 - short history of a castle and whether it existed 7 Jun 08
Castles in the air quote (TFTW) 10 Sep 05
Cato the Elder quote re evil tongues (TFTW) 21 Jul 07 - quote re not wanting a memorial (TFTW) 7 Aug 10
Cats killed over five million birds (TFTW) 18 Mar 06 - cats deterred by CDs fluttering from branches 12 Aug 06 - deterred by soap power, says email from Canada 16 Sep 06 - cat tackles pheasant 14 Apr 07 - cats killing birds in large numbers 21 Jun 08 - garden deterrent for invading cats 29 Aug 09
CD-ROM of Bourne’s history launched 8 Dec 01 - reminder of availability 19 Jan 02 - second edition now on sale 9 Feb 02 - biographies on the disc 4 May 02 - golden jubilee celebrations added 22 Jun 02 - praise from Ccller Terl Bryant, chairman of SKDC 28 Sep 02 - photo No.1,500 added 19 Oct 02 - prizes for quiz plus details of past Bourne histories 6 Sep 03 - CD-ROM - prizes by The Local (WTPS) 20 Sep 03 - photo No. 2,000 added 3 Apr 04 - testimonial from New Zealand 20 Nov 10
Cecil, William – his relationship with Elizabeth I 25 Aug 01
The Cedars 20th anniversary garden party 5 Jun 10
Cejer, Greg – resigns from town council after less than a week 25 Jun 11
Cemetery – council agrees to photo on headstone 20 Oct 01 - may get “best kept” award (WTPS) 24 Aug 02 - Best in Britain award (WTPS) 21 Sep 02 - burials charges likely to go up (WTPS) 2 Nov 02 - old tombstone found to be as good as new 9 Nov 02 - increased charges approved (WTPS) 23 Nov 02 - John Peacock, keeper, buried 3,000 people 14 Dec 02 - supervisor Peter Ellis leaves 22 Mar 03 - complaints about poor maintenance (WTPS) 7 Jun 03 - headstones stability survey to find those unsafe 2 Oct 04 - oldest person buried there was 106 22 Jan 05 Bourne Diary Index - 32
- council should think again about stabilising tombstones 12 Mar 05 - ombudsman rules against wholesale toppling 8 Apr 06 - bid for Best Kept Cemetery title in 2006 (WTPS) 3 Jun 06 - moles to be killed off (WTPS) 22 Sep 07 - toppled graves being repaired by volunteers 16 Feb 08 - Angel of the North replica erected in cemetery 29 Mar 08 - moles to be exterminated by town council 1 Nov 08 - cemetery needs more land 31 Oct 09 - more land needed/cremations more popular/flood table 27 Feb 10 - unmarked graves are usually paupers’ funerals 10 Jul 10 - more space needed for burials/history of cemetery burials 25 Jun 11 - new methods of disposing of the dead needed to save land 25 Jun 11 - town council bids for an extra 2.2 acres in South Road 30 Jun 12 - burial names and numbers over 150 years 30 Jun 12 - major maintenance work on trees and shrubs 23 Feb 13 - memorial seats vandalised 23 Feb 13 - proposal to re-use old graves/number of burials 4 May 13 - more land needed/alternative means of burial investigated 12 Oct 13
Cemetery wall: - sycamore tree threatens stability of brick wall 25 Feb 06 - councillors plans to knock a hole in the wall 8 Apr 06 - hole knocked in wall and trellis erected 14 Oct 06
Cemetery chapel - councillors want to demolish the cemetery chapel (WTPS) 8 Jan 05 - Councillor Kirkman quote re chapel rubble (TFTW) 8 Jan 05 - chapel should not be demolished 15 Jan 05 - investment could have saved chapel (TFTW) 15 Jan 05 - comparison with Stamford/refurbish and let as offices 22 Jan 05 - chapel should be preserved by Len Pick Trust (email) 22 Jan 05 - cost of restoration now £200,000 (WTPS) 22 Jan 05 - deconsecrated by Bishop of Lincoln 12 Feb 05 - true extent of damage is revealed by town council 12 Mar 05 - Grade II listing applied for/Boston cemetery chapel listed 16 Sep 06 - my application for listing (on 30 Jan 2006) revealed 16 Sep 06 - town council statement indicates demolition 9 Dec 06 - demolition likely because of £200,000 repair bill (WTPS) 9 Dec 06 - councillors vote for demolition (TFTW) 13 Jan 07 - demolition appraisal/town council meeting etc 27 Jan 07 - schoolchildren protest over demolition (WTPS) 27 Jan 07 - cost of restoration (WTPS) 27 Jan 07 - sea containers for storage/£80,000 in reserve 10 Feb 07 - statement from Ccller Judy Smith when mayor 10 Feb 07 - chapel should be untouched during spot listing process 17 Feb 07 - Ccller Fines says little support for preservation 17 Feb 07 - leaflet protest gets underway (WTPS) 24 Feb 07 - overwhelming opposition to demolition (WTPS) 3 Mar 07 - town council defers demolition decision 10 Mar 07 - campaign leader Roger Callow resigns (WTPS) 10 Mar 07 Bourne Diary Index - 33
- research into architect Edward Browning (WTPS) 10 Mar 07 - debate over covenants/cost/roof tarpaulin (WTPS) 24 Mar 07 - scheduled Grade II listed by Department of Culture 7 Apr 07 - council clerk warns that it can still be demolished (WTPS) 9 Jun 07 - repairs now costed at £400,0000 12 Jan 08 - suggestions on repairs and future use 28 Jan 08 - questionnaire for all homes on the cost of restoration (WTPS) 28 Jan 08 - should BUC finance the work? 28 Jan 08 - no approach yet to conservation organisations (WTPS) 28 Jan 08 - may be left to fall down through neglect 28 Jan 08 - public survey/consultation forms sent out 9 Feb 08 - Save our Chapel group seeks more quotes 8 Mar 08 - town council agrees to restoration attempt 15 Mar 08 - the silent majority should be considered (WTPS) 15 Mar 08 - town council agrees hand over to the BPS 28 Jun 08 - impasse over lease agreement with BPS 4 Jul 09 - take-over of chapel now going ahead 24 Oct 09 - hand over on hold through diocesan delay 15 Sep12 - proposed use of shipping containers in 2007 recalled 14 Sep 13 - more delays as town council defers lease decision 24 May 14 - time for the council to hand it over/history 27 Jun 15
See also Bourne Preservation Society
Census 2001 3 Mar 01
Centenarians – two in Bourne 15 Aug 09
Chamberlain, Neville – quote re war (TFTW) 22 Mar 03
Chamber of Trade - not enough council support for businesses (WTPS) 26 Aug 06 - likely to fold through apathy (WTPS) 9 Sep 06 - crisis meeting saves closure – new ideas discussed 7 Oct 06 - plan to introduce usable shopping bags (WTPS) 24 Nov 07 - late night Christmas shopping controversy 15 Dec 07 - free shopping bags not up to scratch 31 May 08
Changing face of Bourne 9 Oct 04
Chapati contained Christ image in India (TFTW) 30 Nov 02
Chapels in the Bourne area 13 May 00
Charity bags – too many of them 4 Jun 09 & 28 Apr 12 - charity bags may be a fraud 28 Apr 12
Charity shops – most popular in Bourne (Shop Watch) 2 Dec 06 - wife’s browsing habit becomes costly after breakage 9 Dec 06 - new one opens for Salvation Army 21 Jun 08 Bourne Diary Index - 34
- shops may be increasing their prices 11 Apr 09 - sales are booming/history of charity shops 8 Sep 12
Charity sponsored events should be more profitable 26 Aug 06
Chaucer, Geoffrey – large oaks from small acorns quote (TFTW) 29 Oct 11 - quote re better late than never (TFTW) 12 Nov 11
Chanel, Coco – quote re fashion (TFTW) 20 Sep 14
Chekhov, Anton – quote re fruit of the trees (TFTW) 14 Sep 13 & 27 Sep 14
Chemical sprays destroy wildlife 29 Jul 06 - DEFRA refuses to impose no spray zones on farmers 29 Jul 06
Cheshire rails 23 Oct 99
Chesterfield, Lord – quote re being wiser than most (TFTW) 11 Nov 06
Chesterton, G K – quote re roads and ruts (TFTW) 24 Sep 05 - quote re pubs (TFTW) 17 Jan 15
Chewing gum problems in Bourne (TFTW) 1 Feb 03 - disposal units needed (in fag ends item) 29 Sep 07
Chicken broiler unit protest winds up 30 Oct 99
Children - lose respect for authority – police quote (TFTW) 20 Sep 03 - games such as conkers and marbles disappearing 30 Jul 11 - fewer children read books 29 Sep 12
Child neglect case from 1904 – Stamford Mercury news item 5 Jan 02
Children’s History of Bourne published 22 Jan 11
Children’s hostel at Bourne House - article about experiences added by Susan Leedham 5 Apr 03 - article about experiences by Maxine Follows 10 Dec 05 - short history about hostel/Lou & Pat Schmid 10 Dec 05 - two messages of thanks re hostel article 26 Aug 06 - Lou & Pat Schmid celebrate golden wedding in Spain 16 Oct 06
Chinese proverb – opening a shop (TFTW) 18 Jan 14 - caging birds (TFTW) 19 Apr 14
Christian names old and new/parish registers 3 Dec 11
Christmas - Santa’s siren call sounds nearer 2 Dec 00 - does it come too early? 6 Oct 01 Bourne Diary Index - 35
- Christmas lunch by councillors 1 Dec 01 - Christmas past and present added to web site 22 Dec 01 - Christmas comes but once a year (TFTW) 22 Dec 01 - music in shops is hell (TFTW) 13 Dec 03 - doom and gloom from Lincs County Council (WTPS) 4 Dec 04 - spending, especially on children 25 Dec 04 - Christmas at the big house 25 Dec 04 - festive season rubbish piles up (TFTW) 3 Dec 05 - Christmas tat sails in from China 4 Nov 06 - Christmas spending – advice from the CAB 9 Dec 06 - Christmas draws becoming too numerous (from 1949) 23 Dec 06 - Christmas parcels for Iraq troops (WTPS) 22 Dec 07 - Christmas – seasonal assessment/Christmas past 20 Dec 08 & 21 Dec 13 - buying of presents/Internet sales boom 28 Nov 09 - Christmas castle erected at Waterside Nurseries 31 Oct 09 - spending spree looms/lights history/switch on/prospects 24 Nov 12 - annual spending spree underway/Internet shopping 13 Dec 14 - Christmas over/annual waste including cards etc 10 Jan 15 - cost of Christmas 2014 (TFTW) 10 Jan 15
Christmas Fat Stock show folds – plus its history 17 Apr 04
Christmas letters from the trenches 20 Dec 14
Christmas lights & street decorations 5 Dec 98 - late night shopping 12 Dec 98 - Christmas lights disaster 9 Dec 00 - Christmas tree toppled by gales 16 Dec 00 - cost of Christmas lights controversy 30 Dec 00 - mayor makes statement over Christmas lights 6 Jan 01 - traders refuse to pay for Christmas lights 10 Feb 01 - £40,000 loan for Christmas lights 23 Jun 01 - Christmas tree returns to town centre (WTPS) 22 Nov 03 - Christmas lights fail (WTPS) 20 Dec 03 - praise for Christmas lights from Israel and Alaska 3 Jan 04 - late night shopping/change of arrangements 11 Dec 04 - late night shopping starts early on Dec 1 (WTPS) 4 Nov 06 - shopping etc should be restricted to one week 1 Sep 07 - late night shopping switches to a Sunday midday (WTPS) 8 Dec 07 - late night shopping switch to Sunday criticised 15 Dec 07 - lights switch on November 26th is too early 10 Oct 10 - Christmas lights switch on/history 27 Nov 10 - Christmas lights – inquest over poor show for 2010 8 Jan 11 - celebrating Christmas secular and religious 22 Dec 12
Christmas past - Christmas 1887 21 Dec 02, 24 Dec 05, 22 Dec 07, 20 Dec 08 - Christmas 1887 19 Dec 09, 18 Dec 10, 17 Dec 11 - memories from 1887, 1908, 1968 and 1975 20 Dec 03 - Christmas meat sales in 1887 8 Dec 07 Bourne Diary Index - 36
- how Dickens invented Christmas 19 Dec 09 - Christmas Day in the workhouse 22 Dec 12 - Christmas at the big house 22 Dec 12 - Abbey Church in 1887 22 Dec 12 - Harrington’s Charity gives coal and blankets in 1914 20 Dec 14
Churches - lottery cash should be used for upkeep 4 Aug 01 - atheists should feel at home here (TFTW) 22 Aug 01 - churches disused –quote by M Parris (TFTW) 4 Mar 06 - beauty of churches – quote by Goldwin Smith (TFTW) 12 Jan 13
Churchill quote - jaw-jaw etc (TFTW) 14 Sep 02 - quote re liking pigs (TFTW) 14 Apr 07 - Churchill quote re making a life by giving (TFTW) 3 Jan 09 - quote re We shall not fail or falter (TFTW) 15 May 10 - quote re Never was so much owed to so few (TFTW) 19 Jun 10 - quote re tradition (TFTW) 1 Jun 13 - quote re nation’s taxes (TFTW) 7 Jun 14 - quote re D-Day landing (TFTW) 17 Jun 14
Churches – archbishops warn of possible “extinction” 30 Nov 13
Church Walk wall contains stone from 1770 7 Jun 03 - new railings alongside the Bourne Eau 3 Apr 10 - footpath tidied up 2 Jul 11
Churchyard – neglected and needing income 31 Jul 99 - lottery cash should pay for churchyard upkeep 5 Aug 00 - artificial flowers removed from grave (WTPS) 23 Apr 05 - artificial flowers are big business 30 Apr 05 - snakes tombstone researched 7 Aug 10
Cicero quote re Pompeii town council farce (TFTW) 2 Oct 02 - quote re people being the chief law (TFTW) 6 Aug 05 - quote re dignity and honesty (TFTW) 6 Jun 09 - quote re giving health to men 17 May 14
Cigarette end disposal unit installed 29 Sep 07 - town council appeal to stop street litter from fag ends 12 Sep 09
Cinemas in Bourne – short history 13 Sep 14
Circus memories – Ginnett’s equestrian troupe’s visit in 1858 30 Aug 08 - circuses to be banned/visits to Bourne in past times 27 Apr 13
Citizens’ Advice Bureau under threat (WTPS) 30 Oct 04 - guidance on Christmas spending 9 Dec 06
Citizens’ Jury on the Internet launched by SKDC 6 May 06
Bourne Diary Index - 37
Civic dinner – crime levels discussed 5 May 01 - origins from 1969 21 Apr 07
Civic Society – new walks booklet and history of society 15 Sep 01 - quote about dirty footpaths from newsletter (TFTW) 29 Sep 01 - appeal for new blood because of low membership 6 Apr 02 - secretary says too many new houses in Bourne (WTPS) 17 May 03 - silver rose bowl award to Jim and Brenda Jones 26 Jun 04 - quote from Robert Kitchener re promotion of ideas (TFTW) 12 Feb 05 - new web site launched 24 Dec 05 - appeal for new members/business rate increases 27 Jan 07 - iniquity of paying business rate for Baldock’s Mill (WTPS) 8 Sep 07 - formation through ancient cottage campaign 26 Apr 08 - how it came to be formed 10 Apr 10
Civic Sunday postponed/also a short history of the event 12 May 07 - Civic Sunday observed/history of the event 30 Jun 12 - Civic Sunday now a tradition/short history 1 Jun 13 & 17 May 14
Civilisation quote (TFTW) 26 Jan 02
Clare, John – his legacy of wild flower poems 21 May 05
Clark, Kenneth – quote re machines controlling the majority 2 Sep 06
Clark, Councillor Marjorie – search for relatives (WTPS) 3 May 03 - Marjorie dies, aged 88 29 Sep 07
Clarke, Arthur C – quote re technology and magic (TFTW) 22 Mar 08
Clay, Cyril “Ching” – retires after 65 years but never ill (WTPS) 5 Oct 02
Clement of Alexandria – quote re recycling goods (TFTW) 20 Feb 10
Cliffe family shop to close (WTPS) 22 Mar 03 - Ray Cliffe honoured by town council (WTPS) 27 Sep 03 - Ccller Shirley Cliffe defends state of St Peter’s Pool (WTPS) 15 Oct 05 - Ray Cliffe obituary not used by Stamford Mercury 8 Mar 06
Clifford, Henry, V C (of Irnham) 23 Aug 14
Clifford, Max – quote about newspaper lies (TFTW) 16 Feb 01
Clingo’s Quality Plants nursery (Shop Watch) 28 May 05
Clocks go back - not for Bourne farmers in 1916 14 Aug 04, 30 Oct 10 & 27 Oct 12 - clocks go back but is it necessary 27 Oct 07 - clocks go back but some object 1 Nov 08 - clocks go back and causes confusion 3 Apr 10 Bourne Diary Index - 38
- clocks go back but BST may remain 30 Oct 10 - confusion over system/change needed 2 Nov 13
Clock and watch makers in past times – a short history 3 Jun 06
Closed circuit television in Bourne 2 Jan 99 - CCTV catches intruders at Cliffe’ shop 26 Oct 02
Closures policy for public services flawed 9 Feb 13
Clutter in the streets – too many signs and obstructions 30 Apr 05
Coal found during Toft Tunnel excavations in 1891 8 May 04
Coat of Arms for Bourne explained 15 Mar 14
Coffee bar culture – letter to the local newspaper 13 Nov 10
Cold calling – should be banned 2 Jan 10
Colsterworth waste incinerator protest (WTPS) 20 Nov 04
Community centre project planned for Bourne News item - scrapped 3 Jul 99
Complaining to officialdom – the futility of it 5 Jan 08
Computers - my complaint against Fujitsu 1 Jul 00 - detailed account of complaint against Fujitsu 8 Jul 00 - licence fees on the way (TFTW) 19 Mar 05
Concert at Corn Exchange 22 Nov 03 - entertainment from past times 22 Nov 03
Confidence to a friend quote (TFTW) 24 Aug 02
Confucius – quote re book salesmen (TFTW) 23 Jun 12 - quote re mistakes (TFTW) 12 Apr 14
Congreve, William - quote re music has charms (TFTW) 4 Aug 12 & 10 Aug 13
Conkers – memories of boyhood 14 Aug 04 & 4 Oct 14 - may be disappearing from the streets 30 Jul 11
Connolly, Cyril – quote re faulty memories (TFTW) 20 May 06
Conservation area for Bourne defined 5 Jan 02 - effect of town centre development on listed buildings 5 Feb 05 - Conservation Area to be extended – appraisal by SKDC 9 Jan 10 Bourne Diary Index - 39
Conservative Club closes News item
Consumer protection rules re unsolicited selling 23 May 09
Containers – use for market stall storage 14 Sep 13 - proposed use for cemetery storage 10 Feb 07 & 14 Sep 13 - market container still there/challenge by local resident 17 Jan 15 - market container is an eyesore in our midst/history 10 Oct 15
Continental market is too expensive 14 Jul 07
Coolidge, Calvin – quote re Christmas 18 Dec 10 & 22 Dec 12
Cooper, Tommy – quote re parking fine (TFTW) 20 Oct 12
Co-op’s new food store to open in Budgens’ old premises 16 Oct 10 - prices high/aisles crowded (Shop Watch) 23 Oct 10
Corby Glen - annual Sheep Fair 8 Oct 99 - village page on web site undated 2 Jun 01 - Sheep Fair to lose traditional site (WTPS) 27 Sep 03 - Charles Read Academy to close 9 Feb 13 - Charles Read Academy saved by multi-millionaire 22 Jun 13
Cormuel, Anne-Marie Bigot de – quote re hero/valet (TFTW) 24 Jun 06
Corn Exchange – move to close it in 1969 26 Oct 02 & 1 Oct 11 - film shows to begin in autumn (WTPS) 22 May 04 - history of film shows at the Corn Exchange 18 Sep 04 - council services under one roof may be sited here 15 Oct 11 - council services to be moved here 29 Oct 11 - planning permission given for community access point 21 Jan 12 - history of the building 21 Jan 12 - move in 1969 sell the building for use as supermarket 21 Jan 12 - main hall decorated/Victorian entertainers 16 Mar 13 - should be listed Grade II 18 May 13 - Corn Exchange hit by lightning in 1889 18 May 13
Coronation 1953 – when the town was decorated 16 May 09 - 60th anniversary/1953 celebrations remembered 8 Jun 13
Cosby, Bill – quote re sex education (TFTW) 26 May 07
Costa Coffee planning application opposed by town council 30 Oct 10 - planning application approved 1 Jan 11
Cost of living and monthly bills continue to rise 9 Apr 05
Cottages – those lost to Bourne/Mrs Gray’s cottage 10 Apr 10 Bourne Diary Index - 40
- memories of Mrs Day’s cottage 24 Jul 10
Council elections - more young people needed to stand 17 Mar 07 - SKDC appeals for more council nominations (WTPS) 17 Mar 07
Council houses in Bourne 4 Nov 00 - security of lodgers etc (WTPS) 10 Aug 02 - a short history 14 May 05 - still a place for council houses in the community 17 Nov 07 - still in good service/contrast to high density/ short history 11 Sep 10 - larger than modern houses/short history 20 Oct 12 - rainbow colours for Queen’s Road in 1953 27 Oct 12
Councillors - councillors’ pay rise 16 Jun 01 - councillors join Bourne Forum discussions 26 Jan 02 - councillors and their status 4 Jan 03 - councillors and their standing in 1889 19 Apr 03 - cannot use the laptops they have been given (TFTW) 20 Nov 04 - too many geriatrics on our councils (WTPS) 21 Jan 06 - few use Internet to keep in touch with electorate 15 Apr 06 - their workload may be too heavy to take everything in 1 Sep 07 - councillors should not belong to other authorities 1 Sep 07 - councillors should speak out more – too may stay silent 14 Jun 08 - more surgeries and meetings with the people needed 6 Dec 08 - should publicise expenses claims (WTPS) 6 Jun 09 - the role of councillors in past times 1 Mar 14 - local government elections – campaigning by candidates 25 Apr 15
Council services under one roof/Corn Exchange considered 15 Oct 11
Council tax - tax increase on the way 1 Dec 01 - council tax increase by almost 10% 30 Mar 02 - wastage (TFTW) 24 Feb 01 - likely to rise by £100 (WTPS) 14 Dec 02 - a 10% increase is in the offing (WTPS) 1 Feb 03 - increase of 10.5% approved for 2003-04 (WTPS) 8 Mar 03 - how it works article by Ccller John Kirkman 15 Mar 03 - how much goes on jobs and how much on services 24 Jan 04 - increase of 6.9% pending (WTPS) 6 Mar 04 - going up by 5% at least (WTPS) 22 Jan 05 - £250 a year goes on retirement pensions (TFTW) 28 Jan 06 - going up 4.5% yet still police and school buses cuts (WTPS) 4 Mar 06 - up by 4.99% but still value for money, says SKDC (WTPS) 11 Mar 06 - oldies jailed for protest/general item about local councils 8 Jul 06 - two million people struggle to pay it (TFTW) 30 Sep 06 - annual increases penalise pensioners (WTPS) 3 Feb 07 - council tax being wasted, says letter writer (WTPS) 19 Jan 08 Bourne Diary Index - 41
- regular increases are unfair, especially to the old 16 Feb 08 - police precept pushes up tax by £100 15 Mar 08 - economic downturn precludes increase for 2009-10 13 Dec 08 - increase by SKDC would be deplorable (WTPS) 3 Jan 09 - protestors needed to prevent council tax increase 10 Jan 08 - public consultations over increase inconclusive (WTPS) 24 Jan 09 - 3.5% increase/public consultations criticised (WTPS) 7 Feb 09 - all local authorities demand an increase this year 21 Feb 09 - public consultation on increases is a charade 12 Dec 09 - SKDC proposes £25 annual charge for green bins 28 Jan 12 - increase despite claim of no increase for 2012-13 10 Mar 12 - quote re council tax freeze by Eric Pickles 10 Mar 12 & 2 Feb 13 - small increases are equally iniquitous 2 Feb 13 - SKDC plans another “small” increase 4 Jan 14
Councils – general - how to complain about litter, graffiti and pot holes 19 May 07 - to many local authorities imposing fines 13 Oct 07 - they have failed Bourne during 2010 – New Year review 1 Jan 11 - poor image through intrigue and pursuit of status 21 Jun 14 - freesheets condemned by government 11 Oct 14
Counterfeit £20 note – presented at Morrisons, Stamford 10 Sep 05
Country cottages (Toft) 25 Sep 99
Countryside attractions in early summer 24 Jun 00 - Alliance march criticised (WTPS) 28 Sep 02
Court reporting by local press/memories of the way it was 7 Dec 13
Cowper, William – quote re gossip or tattlers (TFTW) 1 Mar 08
Cows herded down Bourne’s main street (TFTW) 5 Aug 06
Cowslips – becoming a rare sight in the countryside 3 May 08
Cox, Jack – RAF man who escaped in WW2 9 Feb 02 - his exploits to be included in a new book 16 Feb 02 - he visits Baldock’s Mill to see crutches 2 Aug 03
Cox, Kath – dies at 97 23 Aug 08
Crab apples – the seasonal bounty 4 Nov 06
Crampton, Jane – emigrated to Australia after jail in 1854 31 Jan 04
Crap towns of England – web site and extracts 15 Mar 03
Credit card debt encouraged by banks 9 Feb 08 Bourne Diary Index - 42
Credit crisis hits Bourne traders (WTPS) 3 May 08
Crescent Bridge at Peterborough – a history 29 Oct 05
Cribb, Tom – bare knuckle boxing champion 2 Apr 05
Cricket – charity matches at the Abbey Lawn 29 Aug 09 - village cricket at Irnham in 1833 15 Nov 14
Crime – fortress Bourne 17 Apr 99 - crime levels in Bourne discussed at civic dinner 5 May 01 - crime levels follow up 12 May 01 - CCTV is not working/quote from Texas about crime 11 Aug 01 - prowler in Stephenson Way 8 Sep 01 - crime wave in Bourne over Christmas/New Year (WTPS) 10 Jan 04 - crime in Bourne is low and so it is a safe place to live 5 Jun 04 - violent crime in Bourne rises (WTPS) 10 Jul 04 - police target bogus callers (WTPS) 12 Feb 05 - quote re crime prevention/acceptance officers (TFTW) 11 Feb 06 - serious crimes create public anxiety 6 Sep 08 - national crime survey/Morton crime wave in 1819 24 Aug 13
Crimestoppers campaign reaches Bourne – rat on a rat 26 Nov 05
Crisps the most popular snack food 12 Mar 05
Croft, The – new homes for land at house in North Road (WTPS) 11 Oct 03 - Bourne Town Council opposes development (WTPS) 18 Oct 03 - Civic Society opposes new houses (WTPS) 25 Oct 03 - housing development turned down (WTPS) 13 Dec 03 - new application submitted\doctors own part of site 29 May 04 - new government guidelines may allow housing here 5 Jun 04 - SKDC reject latest plans but is this futile? (WTPS) 19 Jun 04 - the land should be turned into a car park (WTPS) 31 Jul 04 - bulldozers destroy the orchard at The Croft (WTPS) 28 Aug 04 - more trees felled/appeal decision appears inevitable 4 Sep 04 - public reaction to tree felling (WTPS) 4 Sep 04 - Maple Gardens may have set a precedent 11 Sep 04 - closing date for objections to housing looms (WTPS) 18 Sep 04 - SKDC withdraws traffic objections (WTPS) 9 Oct 04 - nimby mentality of neighbours to development 9 Oct 04 - house boarded up – will it be demolished? (WTPS) 16 Oct 04 - issue to be settled at a public inquiry (WTPS) 6 Nov 04 - planning opposition strategy by town council (WTPS) 4 Dec 04 - save the Victorian lamp-posts/Civic Society idea 18 Dec 04 - date set for public inquiry (WTPS) 12 Feb 05 - public inquiry is imminent (WTPS) 12 Mar 05 - town council keeps opposition plan secret (WTPS) 12 Mar 05 - public inquiry postponed at the last minute 19 Mar 05 Bourne Diary Index - 43
- site for housing included in brownfield consultation study 19 Mar 05 - was inquiry called off to deter public attendance? (WTPS) 19 Mar 05 - “No more houses”, says man from Mandalay Drive (WTPS) 19 Mar 05 - alternative uses, hospital and theatre (WTPS) 21 May 05 - public inquiry gets underway (WTPS) 4 Jun 05 - solicitor in rumpus over nearby housing styles (WTPS) 11 Jun 05 - final day of inquiry devoted to traffic matters (WTPS) 18 Jun 05 - public inquiry may need to be held again (WTPS) 3 Sep 05 - government delay in reaching inquiry result 26 Nov 05 - planning inspector rules against housing development 17 Dec 05 - reasons why appeal rejected (WTPS) 24 Dec 05 - protestors should now support preservation of building 7 Jan 06 - property should be given to the town as a gift (WTPS) 14 Jan 06 - town unable to afford it as a gift/no capital available 19 Aug 06 - arsonists cause damage 13 Jan 07 - councillor’s plea for site to be given to the town (WTPS) 13 Jan 07 - Victorian lamp standards along main path vandalised 17 Feb 07 - security fence erected (WTPS) 17 Mar 07 - site deteriorates/planning permission should be given 30 Jun 07 - neighbours object to state of the site (WTPS) 9 Feb 08 - may be used for complex of retirement homes 31 May 08 - loss of green space (aerial picture) 30 Aug 08 - planning permission granted for retirement complex 21 Nov 09 - choosing a name, Doudeville Court or The Croft 4 Sep 10 - development work starts/history of planning wrangle 28 May 11 - sales office show house opens 23 Jul 11 - developers claim historic manor house status 23 Jul 11 & 6 Oct 12 - work well advanced/manor house description incorrect 25 Aug 12 - nearing completion but no railway station lamps 11 May 13
Croft, Ian, becomes chairman of Lincs CC (WTPS) 12 Oct 02 - criticised for support of jailed predecessor Jim Speechley 15 May 04 - banned for 15 months, by-election looms (WTPS) 8 Mar 06
Cromwell, Oliver – did he ever worship at the Baptist Church? 23 Jul 05 - Cromwellian links at Haconby and Royal Oak 14 Feb 09
Crouch, Frederick – composer of Kathleen Mavoureen 16 Sep 00
Crows killed in countryside to protect crops 12 Apr 03
Crump, Ccller Derrick – seat at risk because of absence (WTPS) 2 Sep 06
Cuckoo arrives 1 May 99 - cuckoo arriving 30 Mar 02 - cuckoo arrives late this year 22 May 04 - numbers decline, says bird survey 1 Apr 06 - late arrival of the cuckoo/past sightings/numbers decline 26 May 07 - cuckoos scarce again this year 26 Apr 08 - prospects be for the cuckoo this year 18 Apr 09 Bourne Diary Index - 44
- cuckoo here for another year/decline in numbers 22 May 10 - cuckoo now rare/project to track habits 18 Jun 11
Cudmore, Guy, joins web site as columnist/biography 23 Mar 02 - reported to the Standards Board for England (WTPS) 8 Nov 03 - The Croft housing issue should be settled locally (TFTW) 6 Nov 04 - poor state of St Peter’s Pool quote (TFTW) 15 Oct 05 - letter criticises SKDC in The Local (WTPS) 3 Dec 05 - Forum contribution censured by SKDC 24 Dec 05 - proposes radio station for Bourne (WTPS) 28 Jan 06 - councillors cancel his mayoralty 4 Feb 06 - quote re losing the mayoralty (WTPS) 4 Feb 06 - meeting to decide on new mayor (WTPS) 11 Mar 06 - resigns from attempt to become mayor (WTPS) 18 Mar 06 - should be appointed deputy mayor 28 Apr 07 - attack on current planning policy relating to new houses 14 Jun 08 - resigns from town council 5 Jul 08 - complaint about reporting council election result 14 May 11
Curie, Maria – quote re understanding (TFTW) 5 Jul 14
Curious Fox – genealogy web site 5 Oct 02
Currell, Mrs Margaret (Peg) obituary 17 Apr 04
Cust, Henry – reliable M P/gets boys a playing field 22 Sep 12
Cycling through Lincolnshire by Ian Channing – added to Memories of Times Past 14 Apr 01
Cycling on the pavement is dangerous and illegal 14 Jun 03 & 12 Jun 10 - police issue warning to offenders 14 Feb 04
Dad’s Army – comparison with volunteers of the past 16 Feb 13
Daffodils in the countryside and at Spalding 12 Feb 00 - daffodils bloom around the town/short history 4 Mar 06 & 20 Mar 10 - daffodils grown under glass in January 12 Jan 08 & 22 Jan 11 - cold snap causes flowers to wither too soon (Shop Watch) 7 Mar 09 - daffodils bloom around the town/short history 4 Mar 06 & 20 Mar 10 - daffodils bloom around the town/short history 1 Feb 14
Daniels, Anthony - quote re public services (TFTW) 5 Nov 05
Dallywater, Joseph Edward – billposter, town crier etc 14 Jan 06 & 26 Jun 10 - enters lion’s den in 1899 27 Apr 13
Dalrymple, Dr Theodore – quote re caring (TFTW) 16 Aug 03 - quote re terrible state of the world (TFTD) 21 Aug 04 - quote re British government ignorance etc (TFTW) 2 Apr 05 Bourne Diary Index - 45
- quote re bureaucracy taking over public services (TFTW) 20 Aug 05 - quote re discrimination (TFTW) 17 Dec 05
Darby and Joan – origins of term 13 Feb 10
Davidson, Henry Developments - chosen for South Road roadside services scheme by SKDC 8 Oct 05 - sacked from town centre development scheme 12 Aug 06 - continues with South Road roadside services scheme 12 Aug 06
Davies, Joseph – schoolboy taken ill in 1904 2 Oct 04
Davies, Oliver (son of J J Davies) – letters from the trenches 29 Mar 08 - letters from the trenches 7 Nov 09
Davies, Quentin, M P, arrives in Stephenson Way 2 Jun 01 - first article by Quentin Davies on Bourne web site 17 May 03 - tables question in Commons re doctors and their duties 11 Sep 04 - Christmas message says Bourne is safe and secure 23 Dec 06 - defection to Labour reaction/should be an election (WTPS) 30 Jun 07 - offers to help save the Old Grammar School 7 Jul 07 - ends web site column/promoted Labour minister 11 Oct 08 - SKDC planning applications “like confetti” (quote from 1999) 21 Mar 09 - becomes life peer/visit to The Cedars 5 Jun 10 - reliable constituency M P 22 Sep 12
Davies, Victor (son of J J Davies) – quote re war (TFTW) 31 Jul 04
Davies W H – quote re time to stand and stare (TFTW) 24 May 08
Dawkins, Richard – quote re meaningful life (TFTW) 15 Apr 06 - quote re reason and superstition (TFTW) 25 Aug 07
Dawn chorus disappears 29 May 99 - delights of the dawn chorus in rural areas 12 Jun 10 & 10 May 14
Day Centre in Abbey Road closes 19 Jul 14
D-Day memories – HMS Hawkins 14 Jun 14
Death – cremation & burial may have to change 31 Oct 09
Debt levels in Britain - quote (TFTW) 13 Sep 03 - debt levels in Britain – quote (TFTW) 22 Nov 03 - debt levels reach all time record (TFTW) 18 Feb 06 - debt reclaim on line with new government web site 24 Jun 06
Deeping St James – lockup refurbished 29 May 99 - Eady’s Barn for sale, haunted 14 Aug 99 - rubbish freighter withdrawn 8 Apr 00 Bourne Diary Index - 46
- old Baptist chapel now a private house 13 May 00 - old lockup vandalised 10 Nov 01
Deer poaching in Bourne Wood (WTPS) 15 Mar 03 - deer may be culled for food 10 Jan 04 - deer poaching in villages near Bourne 20 Oct 12
Delaine buses - bus stolen (TFTW) 20 Apr 02 - contribute £5,000 to new arts centre at BGS (WTPS) 16 Jul 05
Delaine Meadow housing development begins (WTPS) 27 Aug 05
Dementia tests begin at Bourne clinics 8 Nov 14
Dentists – shortage in Bourne (WTPS) 13 Sep 03 - no more NHS patients, says one practice (WTPS) 17 Apr 04 - NHS dental charges to rise (WTPS) 3 Jul 04 - dentists recruited from Spain (WTPS) 12 Feb 05
Diana’s death and nationwide reaction (TFTW) 23 Mar 02
Diaries – 1811 diary of South Lincs farmer’s daughter reviewed 8 Oct 05
Dickens, Charles – quote re spirit of Christmas (TFTW) 22 Dec 07 & 17 Dec 11 - quote by Tiny Tim (C Carol) (TFTW) 20 Dec 08, 21 Dec 13 & 20 Dec 14 - quote by Mr Micawber about income (TFTW) 6 Nov 10 - quote re babies (TFTW) 20 Aug 11
Dickinson, Emily – quote re Great hope fell (TFTW) 9 Sep 06 - quote re loving birds (TFTW) 29 Mar 08 - quote re God gave a loaf to every bird (TFTW) 16 May 09 - quote re fame is fickle (TFTW) 9 Jan 10
Dilks, Phil – Lincolnshire County Council joins Forum 15 Apr 06 - quote re library closure court decision (TFTW) 19 Jul 14
Diogenes Laertius – quote re youth education 28 Jul 07
Disabled - access to town hall 9 Oct 04 - access at many places in Bourne is tricky (WTPS) 9 Oct 04
Dishonesty – MPs expenses etc/are we all the same? 21 Nov 09
Disloyalty in politics 25 Aug 01
Disraeli, Benjamin – quote re heroes and heroics (TFTD) 2 Jun 07 - quote re lies and damned lies (TFTW) 14 Jul 07
Bourne Diary Index - 47
Doctors - surgeries at breaking point (WTPS) 31 Aug 02 - perhaps they should work weekends 9 Nov 02 - reaction from doctors over working weekends 16 Nov 02 - doctors’ appointments no waiting in Whittlesey (TFTW) 23 Nov 02 - waiting lists too long because the system is wrong 21 Aug 04 - too many routine appoints on waiting lists 28 Aug 04 - withdrawal of evening and weekend duties 11 Sep 04 - defence of reduced hours (WTPS) 11 Sep 04 - attack on doctors by Ccller Guy Cudmore (WTPS) 18 Sep 04 - medical criteria for diabetes etc lowered 15 Sep 04 - decision reversed on out of hours cover (WTPS) 23 Oct 04 - fear of elderly over night-time cover (TFTW) 14 May 05 - Daily Mail quote re weekend cover (TFTW) 17 Mar 07 - clinics complain about cancelled appointments (WTPS) 16 Feb 08 - should work evenings and weekends 21 Jun 08 - less bedside manner/old style doctoring 12 Jul 08 - computers replace the bedside manner 31 Jan 09 - fear of elderly over inadequate night time cover 6 Feb 10 - surgery delays in appointments/role of doctors has changed/ end of the bedside manner and health care in past times 15 Sep 12 - three week wait for an appointment in Bourne 25 Jan 14 - no change in delay to see the doctor/latest appraisal 22 Mar 14 - general practice “at breaking point” 29 Mar 14 - clinic starts Sat morning and Mon evening appointments 12 Apr 14 - old people blamed for causing crisis/Labour’s pledge 17 May 14
Documents – old archives may be suspect 10 May 08
Dodd, Dr William – short history and attempt to revive 26 Mar 05
Dog dirt in Bourne streets and footpaths 12 Aug 00 - dog dirt an old problem since 1994 29 Sep 01 - dog dirt under control except in Bourne Wood 5 Aug 06 - motor bike rangers target dog dirt (WTPS) 17 Mar 07
Dole Wood opens to the public 27 Apr 02 - vandals cause problems 8 Feb 03 - felled oaks for restoration of Lincoln Cathedral 24 Apr 10
Doorstep callers frighten home owners 21 Jul 01 - how to stop doorstep callers 15 Feb 03 - old lady conned by hedge trimming scam (WTPS) 1 Mar 03 - councillor and old lady tricked (WTPS) 27 May 06
Double glazing specialists – new door item 25 Feb 06
Dowsby – 1881 sampler and history of school 27 Mar 04 - girl pupil who made the 1881 sampler identified 3 Apr 04
Drama in Bourne not well received in past times 13 Nov 04 Bourne Diary Index - 48
Drinking - troublemakers to be banned from pubs 30 Apr 05 Drinking in Bourne – is it excessive? 10 Dec 05 - under-age drinking in the Wellhead Gardens/temperance 18 Jul 09 - alcohol causes loss of dignity – anonymous quote (TFTW) 18 Jul 09
Driving – example of bad and arrogant drivers 19 Jul 08
Dr McGregor – new book on old photographs 5 Feb 00
Drought – countryside is tinder dry 26 Sep 09
Drugs – should cannabis be legalised? 14 Jul 01 - hard drug use and its effects (TFTW) 28 Jul 01 - police sniffer dogs to be used at schools (WTPS) 28 Jun 03 - Councillors Trevor Holmes and Guy Cudmore clash 19 Jul 03 - government drug tests ignored by local papers (WTPS) 28 Feb 04 - we are into a pill taking culture 26 Sep 09
Ducks – rubber ones lost at sea and white duck legend at Bourne 19 Jul 03
Duelling in past times/Charles Tennyson duel in 1831 18 May 13
Dunmow Flitch and the Bourne Flitch 19 Jul 08
Dutch MP murdered – subsequent quote re politics (TFTW) 11 May 02
Dyke village – gas lamplighters of 1934 3 Aug 02 - conservation status bid fails 21 Sep 02 - should villages choose over conservation (WTPS) 12 Oct 02 - memorial seat to Charlie Broxholme 30 Jun 07 - wind turbine protest 11 May 13 - wind project dropped 15 Jun 13 - village hall “use it or lose it” threat/history 6 Jul 13
Dykes in the fens once used to carry stone for monasteries 6 Sep 08
Earthquake, fire and flood (John Moore’s book) 11 May 02 - earthquakes in Bourne in past times 5 May 07 - earthquake hits Bourne/history of past tremors 1 Mar 08 - earthquake affects Bourne/history of past tremors 31 Jan 15
Earth’s population in microcosm (TFTW) 17 May 03
Eastgate - bomber crash in Eastgate during war News item - bomber disaster of 1941 7 May 05 - shop building gets new owner 28 May 05 - Eastgate plane crash 18 Mar 06 - Eastgate has become a run down area, say residents 11 Oct 08 Bourne Diary Index - 49
- unexploded bomb found in Eastgate 8 May 10 & 8 Sep12
East Midlands in Bloom – Bourne to enter this year 14 Jan 06 - Bourne gets silver award for second place (WTPS) 23 Sep 06 - Bourne gets another silver award for 2007 15 Sep 07 - Bourne to enter in 2009/complete history of competition 9 May 09 - boat floral feature in South Street 20 Jun 09 - Bourne wins another silver gilt 12 Sep 09 - volunteers wanted to help drive for gold in 2010 13 Mar 10 - flowers everywhere but not outside the Burghley Arms 3 Jul 10 - silver gilt award for 2010/history and awards 18 Sep 10 - 2011 competition to go ahead despite public spending cuts 22 Jan 11 - annual tidy up in readiness for judges 2 Jul 11 - another silver gilt award for 2011/history of competition 17 Sep 11 - new logos for Bourne in Bloom and planters 31 Dec 11 - more volunteers required for 2012 7 Apr 12 - another silver gilt award for 2013 21 Sep 13 - another silver gilt in 2104 27 Sep 14 - Bourne bids for gold – history to date 4 Jul 15
Eating out no longer a pleasure 30 Jan 10 eBay auctions on the Internet – high postal charges 22 Sep 07
Ebling, Jack, gets degree at 77 (WTPS) 26 Apr 03
Edenham village church – pews controversy 9 Apr 05 - font controversy 27 Jul 13
Edison, Thomas – quote re missed opportunities (TFTW) 4 Apr 09
Edman, Irwin – quote re myths (TFTW) 15 Mar 08
Edmund Ironside – was he crowned in Bourne in 1016? 18 Apr 09
Edmunds, Mrs Pat – death severs link with Robert Mason Mills 3 Jan 09
Edward III – supposed visit to Bourne in 1330 25 Sep 10
EEC – ignorance of the populace (TFTW) 22 Jun 02
Eggs smashed in game by kids 16 Aug 03
Einstein, Albert – quote re being driven crazy (TFTW) 21 Apr 12
Electrical fault from 25 years ago causes problems 2 May 09
Elsea Park housing development – 2,000 new homes for Bourne 6 Mar 99 - public exhibition for Elsea Park development 30 Oct 99 - details of planning gain 30 Oct 99 Bourne Diary Index - 50
- appraisal of Elsea Park scheme 18 Dec 99 - appraisal in Bourne Forum by Jim Bruce 19 Feb 00 - Elsea Park development added to web site 5 Jan 01 - first houses completed 17 Aug 02 - wildlife conservation – community trust formed (WTPS) 15 Nov 03 - Elsea Park could have been blocked 14 Feb 04 - Ccller John Smith justifies Elsea Park development 21 Feb 04 - green belt land eaten up by housing such as Elsea Park 15 May 04 - residents protest over lack of facilities 5 Jul 08 - developers plan shops, community centre and flats (WTPS) 27 Sep 08 - 600 houses completed/developers fail over amenities 21 Mar 09 - security precautions at vandalised playground area 26 Jun 10 - “no more housing” pledge after Elsea Park/summary 21 Aug 10 - yob behaviour closes Springbank Drive play area 2 Oct 10 - community centre ready for opening/history 25 Feb 12 - 750 homes completed 12 May 12 - splendid community centre/opening 2 Jun 12 - history of the development 15 Nov 14
Elsea Park – school - new school promised (WTPS) 21 Sep 02 - new primary school to open in 2007 5 Nov 05 - may be delayed 2-3 years, says LCC chairman 1 Apr 06 - new school cancelled (WTPS) 8 Apr 06 - new school finally to be built 17 Jul 10 - head teachers object to new school 24 Jul 10 - again delayed through shortage of pupils 8 Oct 11 - new school needed to provide more primary school places 12 May12 - town council demands building of new school 9 Jun 12 - to be built by 2014, promises county council 28 Jul 12 - plans announced/cost £2.5 million/210 places 18 May 13 - to be run by Bourne Abbey Primary Academy 22 Jun 13 - start may be delayed by access problems 27 Jul 13 - planning permission granted/2010 protest by head teachers 14 Sep 13 - children inscribe steel frame of new school 15 Feb 14 - opening imminent on Sep 2/history of project 30 Aug 14
Elsea Wood under threat from new houses 4 Dec 99 – haunted by Nanny Rut 29 Apr 00
Email proliferates – Sunday Telegraph quote (TFTW) 30 Aug 03
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - quote re weeds (TFTW) 11 Apr 09 - quote re flowers (TFTW) 20 Jun 09, 2 Jul 11, 17 Sep 11 & 3 Aug 13 - quote re silent church (TFTW) 19 Sep 09 - quote re man building a coach (TFTW) 11 Feb 12 - quote re what lies within us (TFTW) 5 Apr 14
Empty shops – 20 under threat and more likely 13 Nov 10
Bourne Diary Index - 51
Enfield, Edward – quote about disliking politicians (TFTW) 1 Sep 01
English grammar – should we improve it? 23 Mar 02
ERA car sold at auction for £359,000 19 Jul 08
Essendine – trees fells during road improvements 22 Apr 00
Estate agents in Bourne and district 18 Nov 00 - photo survey of estate agents added to web site 27 Nov 04 - Bairstow Eves closes shop in West Street (Shop Watch) 19 Jan 08 - estate agents – too many in Bourne, says mayor (TFTW) 5 Apr 08
Etherington, Jade – freedom of Bourne for Paralympic success 5 Apr 14
Euripides – quote re free speech (TFTW) 24 Dec 05 - quote re second thoughts (TFTW) 4 Feb 12
European elections – postal voting (WTPS) 5 Jun 04
European unity quote by the Marquess of Salisbury 1886 (TFTW) 5 Jan 02
Evacuee to Bourne thanks the town 65 years later 11 Sep 04
Everett, David – quote re little acorns (TFTW) 9 Aug 14
Everlasting meat at butcher’s shop in Bourne 26 Jul 14
Evans, John, taxidermist – appeal for stuffed birds 22 Jun 13
Evening Telegraph makes error over old Bourne photo 20 Nov 10
Exotic Pet Refuge at Deeping St James 11 Dec 99
Expansion in Bourne grows apace (WTPS) 31 May 03
Facts about Bourne – new feature begins 21 Jun 03
Fairchild, Fred – goes down with SS Persia 17 Nov 12
Fairs, fetes and feasts in summer – what’s on (WTPS) 14 Jun 03 - what’s on again this summer (WTPS) 16 Jul 05
Family History – general item 9 Sep 00 - warning to keep information up to date 10 Feb 01 - appeal for Coronation memories 27 Apr 02 - new Bourne records available for checking 1 Jun 02 - praise for web site service from USA 16 Aug 03 - section re-designed because it has become so large 20 Mar 04 - still expanding/progress report 23 Dec 06 Bourne Diary Index - 52
- town council should put cemetery names on the Internet 17 Oct 09 - Mate/Shargel email from USA re family history 17 Oct 09 - still expanding with 380 names 30 Jan 10 - anyone named Bourne rarely comes from Bourne 13 Aug 11 - children should know where they came from (TFTW) 13 Aug 11
Fangio visits Bourne/high speed drive from Stamford 5 Jun 10 & 1 Feb 14 - quote re passion for doing everything (TFTW) 5 Jun 10
Farmers’ markets flounder 2 Jun 01 - farmers jettison harvest straw over road 17 Aug 02
Farming - health of animals on farms 03 Mar 01 - use of chemicals 20 Mar 99 - intensive farming and its effect on meat 17 Mar 01 - Carson, Rachel, author of Silent Spring 12 May 01 & 29 Aug 15 - wild flowers have disappeared 21 May 05 - higher yields but wildlife suffers (TFTW) 25 Feb 06 - farm chemical and their effects 29 Aug 15 - birds, flowers, insects disappeared - agro chemicals 29 Aug 15
Fast food in Bourne – a survey 10 Jul 04 - takeway owners should clear up rubbish (WTPS) 24 Jul 04 - petition by traders against more food outlets (WTPS) 31 Jul 04 - too many in Bourne (TFTW) 6 Feb 05 - another application this time at 64/66 North Street 5 Mar 05 - waste food in the streets 16 Apr 05 - boycott of Macdonalds in Tavistock/Burger King in Bourne 16 Dec 06 - another food outlet in North Street (Wetherspoon’s) 17 Oct 15
Felons – Society for the Prosecution/short history 15 Nov 13
Fen blow and local coverage 27 Mar 04 - similar occurrence in the Mallee region of Australia 27 Mar 04
Fenland ice-skating 3 Feb 01 - banned at Baston Fen because of insurance problems 1 Feb 03
Fens – their appeal to nature lovers 12 Jan 02 - drainage relics in the form of stone blocks 19 Jun 04 - beauty of the landscape/farming year 11 Feb 06
Fielding, Henry – quote re making money your god (TFTW) 22 Sep 07
Film makers want location near Bourne 29 Sep 01
Film shows for the Corn Exchange (WTPS) 22 May 04
Fines, Brian – becomes 35 th Mayor of Bourne 6 May 06 Bourne Diary Index - 53
- hopes for his year in office (WTPS) 6 May 06 - declines to contribute Christmas message to web site 23 Dec 06 - resigns from town council 10 Oct 10
Fire brigade added to web site (also Grimsthorpe fire) 1 Dec 01
Fires in farm stacks hazard in 1872 15 Jun 13
Firemen - undertake medical calls (WTPS) 2 Oct 04 - firemen will not be paramedics in the future (WTPS) 28 Oct 06
Fireworks’ Day celebrations criticised 4 Nov 00
Fischer, Janet – remembering the bluebells (email) 3 May 08
Fish and chips – cod banned by one shop (WTPS) 30 Nov 02 - the merits of a newspaper wrapping and a short history 15 Nov 03 - Prime Minister Tony Blair likes them in a newspaper 29 Nov 03 - boyhood memories of fish and chips 1 Aug 09, 16 Mar 13 & 16 Aug 14 - first ever fish and chip shop opens in 1860 1 Aug 09 & 16 Mar 13 - cod switches to more exotic varieties 16 Mar 13
Fisher, Don – article on local government added to web site 22 Mar 03 - plea for The Croft to be given to the town (WTPS) 13 Jan 07 - memories of on stage with Olivier 1 May 10 & 19 Nov 11 - invites Quentin Davies to The Cedars garden party 5 Jun 10 - obituary 1933-2011 12 Nov 11
Fishing season begins 16 Jun 01 - quote by Dr Johnson (TFTW) 16 Jun 01 - fishing season begins 15 Jun 02 - boys seek fishing venue at old pond (WTPS) 1 Sep 07 - parents should clean up old pond 8 Sep 07 - memories of fishing in Bourne 8 Sep 07
Fitzgerald, F Scott – quote re night of the soul (TFTW) 22 Apr 06
Fitzgilbert, Baldwin - claimed as ancestor 27 Feb 10
Flatters, Joseph Tye – emigrated from Bourne to Canada in 1871 23 Dec 00 - added to the web site this week 23 Dec 00
Fleming, James – quote re birds could deter nuclear war (TFTW) 3 Sep 05
Flooding 9 Jan 99 - flooding in Bourne area – round up 13 Mar 99 & 11 Jan 14 - floods of 1960 after drainage scheme improved 23 Jun 07 - flooding means extra costs for defences etc 4 Aug 07 - flooding was always with us – quotes from Matthew Paris 4 Aug 07 Bourne Diary Index - 54
Floral Silk company to open in Bourne (WTPS) 12 Apr 03
Floral tributes after road deaths controversy 7 Feb 04
Flowers and fragrance – old Chinese proverb (TFTW) 3 Jul 10
Flower tubs in town centre need regular maintenance 21 Oct 00 - in need of attention (see also Guerrilla gardening) 24 May 08
Flu jabs – successful sessions at Hereward clinic 21 Oct 06 - session for oldies at Hereward clinic 20 Oct 07 - at Bourne clinics/myth about making one ill 10 Oct 09 - annual jabs at Hereward clinic attract the oldies 18 Oct 14
Flying saucers and UFOs 11 Jun 00
Fly posting – notices in Exeter Street taken down 19 Aug 06
Fly tipping – garage parts dumped in lay-by (WTPS) 2 Oct 04
Foley, Ernest – moves to Bourne/opens Meadowgate factory 9 Jun 12
Folkingham – postman finds own water supply in 1933 29 Jun 02 - House of Correction photo used by Oregon State University 18 Jan 03 - airfield once used for nuclear rockets (article) 17 Jan 03 - fire at the Greyhound and a short history (WTPS) 16 Apr 05 - the Greyhound registered as an historic building at risk 23 Sep 06 - the Greyhound to be converted into flats (WTPS) 25 Nov 06 - Amy Berry’s epitaph in churchyard 22 Aug 09
Fontaine, Jean de la – quote re helping one another (TFTW) 23 Jul 05
Food – so much is thrown away in the streets 16 Apr 05 - food thoughts from abroad – expats remember favourites 8 Oct 05 - poor quality in pubs and restaurants 30 Jan 10 - food outlets in the town now exceed 40 10 Jul 10
Food bank coming to Bourne 15 Dec 12 - one ton of food collected/opening on May 7 6 Apr 13
Foot and mouth restrictions in the area 17 Mar 01 - why not inoculate? (Thought for the Week) 24 Mar 01 - parody of Browning poem (Thought for the Week) 31 Mar 01 - why are Lincolnshire footpaths still closed? 14 Apr 01 - and still closed? 12 May 01 - still closed but people are walking 2 Jun 01 - Ministry of Agriculture criticised (TFTW) 7 Jul 01 - footpaths in Lincolnshire still closed (TFTW) 14 Jul 01
Bourne Diary Index - 55
Football - Bourne Town Juniors to get new changing rooms 27 Feb 99 - Is football a waste of time? 20 Oct 01 - Bourne Town Football Club’s 8ft high fence controversy 2 Mar 02 - hooligans become picture of the Englishman abroad (TFTW) 27 Apr 02 - not as popular as it seems (TFTW) 18 Oct 03 - cars flying flags for Euro 2004 costs extra petrol (TFTW) 26 Jun 04
Ford, Henry – quote re history is bunk (TFTW) 16 Jul 05 - quote re competition (TFTW) 7 Sep 13
Fort Worth’s natatorium (in Texas) 23 Aug 03
Forty Years On and lost values 19 Aug 00
Forums in the Internet – no councillor participation 12 Nov 05
Foster, Glen – quote on the Canadian water supplies 27 Sep 03 - quote about snow in Owen Sound 20 Dec 03 - quote re first snowfall in Canada 3 Dec 05 - snowed in at home in Ontario 17 Feb 07
Foxes – urban presence in Stephenson Way 17 May 08
France, Anatole – quote re cash and the poor (TFTW) 25 Aug 12
Franklin, Benjamin – quote on tax (TFTW) 15 Mar 03 - quote on secrecy (TFTW) 24 Jul 04 - quote on lost time (TFTW) 1 Nov 08 - quote re beer (TFTW) 5 Sep 09 - quote re humility (TFTW) 10 Oct 09 - quote re value of water (TFTW) 17 Mar 12 - quote re small leaks wrecking large boats (TFTW) 7 Apr 12
Freedom of Information inquiries condemned by LCC 1 Sep 12
Freemans warehouse, Pinfold Rd sold for development (WTPS) 4 Sep 04
Freemasons sell hall in Wherry’s Lane for £375,000 16 Oct 10 - masonic hall demolished/history 6 Oct 12
Free speech – quote by Euripides (TFTW) 24 Dec 05
Friend in need proverb (TFTW) 12 Apr 08
Friends of Bourne Wood reveal plans for road through wood 22 Mar 08 - Santa visit banned this year/shortage of volunteers 11 Oct 14 - Friends seek 500 volunteers 29 Nov 14
Frogs in rubbish at skip 1 Sep 01 Bourne Diary Index - 56
Fruit – the season’s abundance means free apples and pears 9 Sep 06
Fuchsia – origins 26 Jun 04
Fuller, Margaret – quote re knowledge (TFTW) 8 Dec 07
Fuller, Thomas – quote re acorns and oaks (TFTW) 22 Feb 14
Fun fair comes to Bourne 6 Nov 99
Gala Concert – everything on course for September 12 May 07
Galbraith, J K – quote re unnecessary meetings (TFTW) 17 Apr 04 - quote re choice in politics (TFTW) 19 May 07 - quote re supermarkets (TFTW) 6 Feb 10 - quote re larceny and fraud (TFTW) 24 Feb 12
Galletly, Dr John – added to Memories of Times Past 7 Jul 01 - life of a GP in past times 5 Sep 09 - winter call to Thurlby and a grateful lady 19 Dec 09 - night time calls in past times 6 Feb 10 - delivering babies at all hours 20 Aug 11 - doctors not what they used to be quote (TFTW) 15 Sep 12 & 25 Jan 14 - connection with Rippingale surgery 12 Jan 13 - memories of doctors in past times 12 Jan 13
Galletly practice starts evening and Sat morning appointments 21 Jun 08 - remembering the hard work of Dr Galletly 21 Jun 08 - practice to expand at a cost of £400,000 5 Sep 09 - changing times at No 40 North Road 20 Mar 10
Galloway, George – quote re ambulances in U S (TFTW) 9 Nov 13
Gandhi, Mahatma – quote re eye for an eye (TFTW) 8 Aug 09 - quote re speed (TFTW) 6 Jul 13 - quote re service to others (TFTW) 12 Jul 14
Gann/Ganne names needed for DNA testing in USA 18 Jan 03
Gardner, Robert Arthur ARA – added to Bourne Focus 18 Aug 01 - silver medal handed over to Heritage Centre 31 Jul 04
Garden centres becoming too costly 11 Apr 09
Gardening – learn to love the dandelion (TFTW) 21 May 05
Garland, Judy – quote re soap operas (TFTW) 23 Nov 13
Gasworks – a short history 24 Apr 04 Bourne Diary Index - 57
Gas cookery demonstrations in 1889 3 May 03 Gas bills create freezing conditions for pensioners (TFTW) 25 Mar 06 Gas prices rocket/history of industry in Bourne 15 Nov 13
Gated communities – one planned for Elsea Park 4 Dec 04
Gates, Bill – quote about computer crashing (TFTW) 15 Dec 01 - quote re Internet and global village (TFTW) 14 Aug 10 & 5 May 12
Genealogy still popular especially on this web site 5 Oct 02 - convict links with Australia/new Lincolnshire web site 31 Jan 04 - popular appeal/Baldwin Fitzgilbert claimed as ancestor 27 Feb 10
Geneen, Harold – quote re business promises (TFTW) 13 Jun 09
General election round up 2 Jun 01 General election round up 2010 1 May 10 General election 2010 results 8 May 10
Genoa conference and dissatisfaction of the people 28 Jul 01
Geograph Britain – we start to contribute photographs 29 Nov 14
German POWs at Rippingale during the Great War 20 Feb 10
Gerrymandering – an explanation of the term 16 Apr 05
Ghosts – various sightings and web site poll 11 Aug 01 - more on ghosts including one at R A F West Raynham 18 Aug 01 - those reputed to haunt the Bourne area 1 Feb 03 - alleged hauntings at Thurlby vicarage 31 Mar 07
Gibbon, Edward – quote re history records crimes (TFTW) 31 Jul 10
Gilpin, Dr – his thoughts on motoring in 1904 1 Sep 01 - attending airship disaster at Thurlby 13 Apr 02
Gladiator – was it filmed in Bourne Wood? 2 Feb 02
Glen, John – praises Bourne as a fine place to live 17 Dec 05
Global warming – the myth of it in TFTW 20 Jan 01 - never mentioned when the weather is cold 23 Jun 01 - quote by Paul Johnson condemning the myth (TFTW) 24 Jan 04 - quote re summer being “cold as Christmas” (TFTW) 18 Jun 05 - scam of global warming/Dr Martin Keeley (TFTW) 17 Feb 07 - methane gas from cows report 14 Jul 07 - the phrase hibernates during the current cold spell 9 Jan 10
Globe artichoke appears in garden 18 Aug 07 Bourne Diary Index - 58
Godiva, Lady – rides through Bourne in 1929 14 Nov 09 - Lady Godiva myth shattered 5 Nov 11
Gods invented by man quote by L Kennedy (TFTW) 19 Apr 03
Goethe, Johann – quote re aggressive stupidity (TFTW) 19 Jul 08 - quote re peace at home (TFTW) 2 Jan 10 - quote re sweeping own front door (TFTW) 21 Sep 13
Golden Jubilees – past and present 24 Nov 01 - golden jubilee celebrations for 2002 1 Dec 01 - are street parties a thing of the past? 2 Feb 02 - memories of 1977 celebrations 23 Feb 02 - Duke of Edinburgh will be pleased when it’s over (TFTW) 4 May 02
Golden Lion – major refit on the way 23 Oct 10 - story that John Wesley stayed there 23 Oct 10 - sold by Samuel Smith/refurbishment on the way 17 Jan 15
Goldsmith, Oliver (poet 1728-1774) quote re memory (TFTW) 7 Aug 04
Goldwyn, Samuel – quote re bad films and television (TFTW) 25 Jun 05
Golf club in Bourne did exist 20 Nov 04 - golf club in Bourne/joke plaque with bylaw 28 Aug 10
Google links may not always be reliable 10 Oct 09
Gossip – general discussion/case at Baston from 1823 22 Mar 14
Government quote by Joseph de Maistre (TFTW) 12 Apr 03 - government quote by H L Mencken (TFTW) 15 Nov 03
Grace, W G – quote re cricket and good fellowship (TFTW) 10 Jan 09
Graffiti and the responsibility of SKDC 21 Apr 07 - graffiti designated area hoax in Church Walk 23 Aug 08 - graffiti paintings by pupils in North Street in 1996 4 Oct 08
Grahame, Kenneth – quote re messing about in boats (TFTW) 18 Oct 08
Grantham Journal – campaign against green bin levy 4 Feb 12 - SKDC criticised for rubbish collection policy 24 Mar 12
Grantham to vote on having a town council 4 Sep 10
Grass cutting in Queen’s Road 11 Nov 00
Grasshoppers now a rarity in the countryside 25 Aug 07 Bourne Diary Index - 59
Grass verges churned up by vehicles 23 Jul 11
Graves – unmarked in the town cemetery 10 Jul 10
Gray, Mrs Alice dies at 89/lost cottage 10 Apr 10
Gray, Thomas – quote from Elegy (TFTW) 30 Jul 11 & 4 May 13
Great Exhibition of 1851 – housewife’s quilt 31 May 14
Greatford – navy bell in village church 23 Nov 02
Green belt land eaten up by housing 15 May 04 - green belt should be used for houses, says report (TFTW) 1 Sep 07 - green spaces and their benefits – government report 11 Jun 11
Green bins – SKDC proposes £25 annual emptying charge 28 Jan 12 - campaigning coverage by the Grantham Journal 4 Feb 12 - 19,500 pay for green bins/levy here to stay 30 Jun 12 - new users to face 40% increase at £35 10 May 14
Green corn in the countryside 24 Jun 00
Green Flag award scheme – why not the Wellhead Gardens? 6 Aug 05
Green Gym project at the Abbey Lawn 29 Aug 09 - project at St Peter’s Pool 5 Dec 09 - work progresses at St Peter’s Pool 6 Mar 10
Grimsthorpe Castle fire in 1960 1 Dec 01
Grunwald, Henry Anatole – quote re libel (TFTW) 26 Jan 13
Guerrilla gardening may fill town centre tubs 24 May 08
Guertin, Ethel – bears in garden 21 Sep 02 - snow gives way to spring 22 Mar 03 - message re “Watchdog for Bourne” 3 Jan 04 - the need for a laugh in life 23 Jun 07 - snowbound in Quebec – email message 17 May 08 - Christmas greetings – email message 18 Dec 10
Guest Book quote from Bourne mother 5 Oct 02
Guy Fawkes Night – see Bonfire Night
Gypping in the Marsh – fictional village on the Internet 16 Jun 07
Gypsies: Bourne Diary Index - 60
- permanent sites planned for Bourne (WTPS) 7 Jul 07 - a short history and last time they camped in Bourne area 21 Jul 07 - no public meeting planned over gypsy sites (WTPS) 21 July 07 - councillors join debate /public to have their say 28 Jul 07 - rowdy public hearing condemns sites in Bourne 18 Aug 07 - some councillors may have a conflict of interest over vote 1 Sep 07 - town council votes against gypsy sites (WTPS) 8 Sep 07 - SKDC receives 1,400 responses to public consultation 15 Sep 07
Haceby – the deserted village and church 27 May 00
Haconby - spelling controversy 22 Jun 02 - farm fire of August 1850 28 Sep 01 - spelling controversy, Haconby or Hacconby (WTPS) 2 Jul 05 - spelling controversy – one “c” or two? 25 Mar 06 - church spire develops cracked following earthquake 12 Apr 08 - spelling controversy surfaces again 7 Feb 09 - Cromwellian links may be bunk 14 Feb 09 - Baptist Chapel view ruined by new housing 4 Apr 09
Halifax plc – Bourne office closed on a Saturday (Shop Watch) 23 Oct 04
Hanthorpe – roadside verges cleared of rubbish 8 Apr 00 - village history by Brian Lawrance 17 Feb 01
Hardy, Thomas – quote re war and peace 10 May 03 Harrington, Robert – added to web site 2 Dec 00 Harrington’s Charity gives coal and blankets at Christmas 1914 20 Dec 14
Harrington Street, Bourne and council houses general 4 Nov 00 Harrington Street traffic bottleneck 20 Oct 12
Hartop, Job added to the web site this week 19 Aug 00 - Hartop should be added to street names 14 Dec 13
Harvest festivals – Langtoft particularly 21 Oct 00
Harvest time – evocation of times past 14 Aug 99 - on the combine at Dyke 28 Aug 99 - harvesting corn from my study window 12 Aug 00
Harvey, Bob – quote re health alert abroad 9 Jul 05
Harwood, Sir Edward – short biography 29 Oct 05
Haskins, Ernest, U S writer – quote re savings (TFTW) 6 Dec 08
Hastings, Max – quote re Hutton inquiry (TFTW) 31 Jan 04
Hawking, Professor Stephen – quote re population (TFTW) 7 Jul 12 Bourne Diary Index - 61
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – quote re autumn sunshine (TFTW) 29 Sep 07 - quote re butterfly (TFTW) 7 Dec 13
Hazel nut shortage worldwide/nutting in Bourne Wood 23 Aug 14
Headlines in newspapers are not always clever 14 May 05
Health – dirty iced drinks (TFTW) 15 Sep 01
Health alert abroad (quote from Bob Harvey) 9 Jul 05
Health clinics – waiting lists to see doctors too long 21 Aug 04 - survey re patient services criticised (WTPS) 6 Jan 07
Health services run down – quote by Ccller Don Fisher (WTPS) 26 Nov 05
Health tonics in past times 31 Jul 10
Heart disease figures from 1970 health report (TFTW) 14 Jun 03
Heath, Air Marshal Sir Maurice – added to Bourne Focus 19 May 01
Heating will be soon more expensive than eating – quote (TFTW) 26 Aug 06
Heaven, Brynley – article on Folkingham nuclear rockets 17 May 03 - multi-storey car park quote (TFTW) 19 Feb 05 - quote re people being mainly good (TFTW) 11 Jun 05 - threatened with heavy fine for removing wheelie bin bug 30 Sep 06 - doubts over council consultations/waste recycling centre 10 Sep 11
Hecht, Ben – quote re time’s a circus (TFTW) 27 Apr 13
Hedgerows – damage by flail cutters 27 Nov 99 - behind Beech Avenue cut down 19 Feb 00 - unsightly trimming by machine cutters (TFTW) 1 Apr 06
Heffer, Simon – quote re Tax Freedom Day (TFTW) 9 Apr 05
Hellman, Lillian – quote re cynicism (TFTW) 5 May 07
Henry, Matthew – quote re none so blind (TFTW) 10 Feb 07
Henry’s – memories of the North Street café 27 Sep 08
Herald and Post newspaper reappears (WTPS) 8 Jan 05 - copies dumped along Bourne footpath (WTPS) 6 Aug 05 - double issues posted to some homes 12 Nov 05
Herbert, A P - quote re fun (TFTW) 14 Oct 06 Bourne Diary Index - 62
Hereward Approved School – added to web site 5 May 01 - Charles Sharpe VC injured by bomb? 7 Dec 02 - Leonard Hawke, first broadcaster, on staff 7 Dec 02 - labour camp origins 24 May 03 - article by Walter Unsworth on experiences added to web site 19 Jul 03
Hereward Medical Practice – flu jabs handed out 21 Oct 06 - appointments and prescriptions now online 7 Jun 08
Hereward Street – traffic danger alert (WTPS) 29 Oct 05 - protest sit down might deter delivery lorries 5 Nov 05
Hereward the Wake – a re-appraisal 10 Aug 02 - polystyrene model goes on display at Heritage Centre 3 Apr 04 - new book about him by Mike Ripley 2 Jun 07 - proposal to erect a statue at the entrance to Bourne 22 Mar 08 - remembering the model in the Heritage Centre 22 Mar 08
Heritage – money needed to save it in Bourne 13 Dec 03 - Heritage Weekends and local buildings open to the public 15 Sep 07 - is whatever people value for future generations (TFTW) 28 Jan 08
Heritage Centre – winter visitors (WTPS) 21 Sep 02 - computer installed 19 Apr 03 - receives R A Gardner silver medal 31 Jul 04 - volunteers needed to staff openings 16 Oct 04 - Charles Worth gallery opens 22 Apr 06 - Worth Gallery wins prestige county award 13 Oct 07 - Red Hall porcelain dish given for display 2 Jan 10 - old matchbox holder given for display 27 Aug 11 - Redshaw photo enlargement donated by Nationwide 10 Dec 11 - christening exhibition to coincide with royal birth 3 Aug 13 - more space from garage extension/short history 21 Jun 14 - silver communion set handed over for display 17 Jan 15
Heron in the field beyond the garden 21 May 05
Heron supermarket opens in old Woolworths premises 23 May 09 - lorries unloading cause traffic problems 15 Feb 14
Herrick, R – quote re daffodils (TFTW) 20 Mar 10, 11 Jan 11 & 1 Feb 14
Hesse, Hermann – quote re knowledge (TFTW) 26 Feb 05
Heywood, John – quote re none so blind (TFTW) 22 Oct 05 - quote repeated (TFTW) 27 Jan 07
Hidden tunnel between church and the Red Hall query 6 Mar 04
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Higgler – history and list of Bourne higglers 20 Sep 08
Hill, Napoleon – quote re Edison and success (TFTW) 7 Feb 14
Hillaby, John – quote re village pub (TFTW) 20 Jul 13
Hinson, Paul – comments about zero policing in Australia 12 Jan 02
Histories of Bourne – various 11 May 02 - many may be unreliable/William Marrat 1 Dec 12
History is fiction quote by Voltaire (TFTW) 7 Sep 02 & 3 Apr 04
Hitchcock, Alfred – quote re disliking trouble 4 Oct 08
HMS Beryl – added to web site 18 May 02 - cast iron shield handed over to Heritage Centre 22 Nov 02 - Commander Sellwood’s three sons visit Heritage Centre 28 Aug 04 - councillors reject Beryl as a street name (WTPS) 13 Oct 07
Hobson, Hugh – eminent 19 th century registrar in Bourne 3 Sep 11
Hodgkin, Dorothy – memories of St Peter’s Hospital laundry 13 Aug 11 - friendship with TV presenter Derek Batey who died 23 Feb 13
Hogg, Quintin – quote re sincere men (TFTW) 30 Jun 07
Holidays should begin at home/stress of going away etc 24 Aug 13
Hollingworth, Benjamin – blind boy from Pickworth 7 Jan 06 - more information about his life 14 Jan 06
Holloway, Dr George – name on mill wheel 22 Feb 03
Holmes, Oliver Wendell – quote re free speech (TFTW) 13 Aug 05
Holmes, Councillor Trevor – mayor is castigated over his attempts to re-open the public lavatories (WTPS) 4 Oct 03 - local newspapers defend the mayor over public loos (WTPS) 11 Oct 03 - protest over TCMP’s closed meetings (WTPS) 1 Nov 03 - mayor refuses to cut ribbon at hospital site estate (WTPS) 7 Feb 04 - investment would have saved cemetery chapel (TFTW) 15 Jan 05 - quote re Guy Cudmore losing the mayoralty (WTPS) 4 Feb 06 - elected to SKDC (in election round up) 5 May 07
Homer – quote re charity (TFTW) 8 Sep 12
Home swap request from Middlesex 6 Jul 02
Homework – helping pupils 9 Jun 01 Bourne Diary Index - 64
Honeysuckle in Bourne Wood 31 Jul 04
Hood, Thomas – quote re November (TFTW) 30 Nov 13
Horace – quote re staying level-headed (TFTW) 3 Feb 07
Horbling – appeal to kill off sparrows in 1860 16 May 09
Horn, Councillor Mark - clubs etc need open day to advertise (WTPS) 22 Apr 06 - wins seat on Bourne Town Council 2 Dec 06 - council tax increases penalising pensioners (WTPS) 3 Feb 07 - rough ride at public meeting over gypsy sites 18 Aug 07 - views on cemetery chapel (WTPS) 12 Jan 08 - suggests woodland developers call public meeting 12 Apr 08
Horse hair – Victorian uses/man jailed for stealing it in 1844 7 Feb 14
Horton, Diane (Missouri, USA) - traces friend through web site 17 Dec 05
Horoscopes (WTPS) 10 Aug 02
Hospitals - hospital closures in Bourne 16 Jun 01 - houses to be built on site/dispute over ownership 12 Jan 02 - cost of building and legality of ownership 19 Jan 02 - town council opposes housing (WTPS) 24 Aug 02 - site to be sold for housing (WTPS) 11 Jan 03 - health chief says Bourne does not need a hospital (WTPS) 18 Jan 03 - Ccller Trevor Holmes demands cottage hospital (WTPS) 15 Feb 03 - Bourne Hospital site sold 12 Apr 03 - Bourne Hospital opening in 1915 quote (TFTW) 12 Apr 03 - memories of past patients added to web site 19 Apr 03 - hospital site sold (WTPS) 19 Apr 03 - more scarlet fever memories of Bourne Hospital 26 Apr 03 - demolition of Bourne Hospital begins 7 Jun 03 - isolation hospital conditions (in Manor Lane) 7 Jun 03 - Bourne Hospital demolition begins (WTPS) 21 Jun 03 - street names will be medically connected (WTPS) 2 Aug 03 - see also Street names for further references - mayor refuses to cut ribbon at hospital site estate (WTPS) 7 Feb 04 - ward closures at Stamford are ominous 27 Aug 05 - Stamford Hospital rumoured to become offices 29 Oct 05 - visits to Peterborough hospital and appraisal 29 Oct 05 - Bourne Hospital to close (archive item from 1998) 10 Dec 11 - new Peterborough hospital “too big” (TFTW) 10 Dec 11 - NHS chief wants smaller hospitals/Bourne round up 7 Jun 14 - the loss of our cottage hospitals and the crisis in the NHS 7 Feb 15
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Hot cross bun – 187 years old, claims woman (WTPS) 24 Mar 07
Hotel/petrol/pub development on A15 (WTPS) 23 Nov 02 - SKDC to sell the land for this development (WTPS) 27 Nov 04
Houses and housing development - are there too many new houses? 14 Jul 01 - dissatisfaction with local councillors over this issue 28 Jul 01 - house building fear by resident (TFTW) 1 Nov 03 - lack of affordable properties (WTPS) 24 Jan 04 - mayor refuses to cut ribbon at hospital site estate (WTPS) 7 Feb 04 - house hunters praise web site (Message from the Midlands) 6 Mar 04 - brownfield sites/new government guidelines 5 Jun 04 - Woodview Nursery site causes concern (WTPS) 14 Jun 04 - Bourne has plenty of affordable housing (WTPS) 6 Feb 05 - sites selected in brownfield consultation study by SKDC 19 Mar 05 - railway station in South Road demolished for housing 2 Apr 05 - who buys all of the new houses in Bourne? (WTPS) 27 Aug 05 - no further house building, says SKDC (WTPS) 10 Dec 05 - house prices to be 10 times the average salary (TFTW) 9 Jun 07 - houses – seeing into others through the property ads 5 Apr 08 - Beech Avenue amenities promises unfulfilled 13 Jun 09 - high density analysed 13 Jun 09 - Bourne to get 1,792 more houses 22 Aug 09 - too fast for the provision of medical facilities 5 Sep 09 - forecast for the next 20 years suggests 1,600+ new homes 24 Oct 09 - too many for Bourne/too many for the elderly 5 Dec 09 - no more housing, said SKDC after Elsea Park/history 21 Aug 10 - no more housing, says SKDC again/history 6 Aug 11 - more housing schemes for Bourne/general assessment 18 Aug 12 - houses are getting smaller/review of house building 20 Oct 12 - minister demands more housing for greenfield sites 1 Jun 13 - review of house building in Bourne 1 Jun 13 - affordable housing/council housing/difficulties of buying 20 Sep 14 - Falcon Way dispute 15 Nov 14 - general round up of housing developments 15 Nov 14
Housing developments – laundry site (Larkfleet) - town council opposes high density of 47 homes 23 Feb 08 - planning application approved 1 Mar 08 - SKDC approves plans for high density housing 2 May 09 - high density comparison with council houses 13 Jun 09
Housing developments – Abbeyfields - garage closes down (WTPS) 15 Oct 05 - archaeological dig may reveal course of Car Dyke 3 Oct 09 - site now an eyesore awaiting house building 19 Jun 10 - Persimmon to build 108 new homes 21 Aug 10 - R Mays garage site eyesore/ developers should tidy up 27 Aug 11 - worsening state of site/owners should clean up 27 Aug 11 Bourne Diary Index - 66
- building permission extended for another three years 8 Oct 11 - development may embrace AHF store now closed 18 Aug 12
Housing developments – Manning Road (Larkfleet) - councillors oppose 65 homes on farmland site 6 Dec 08 - planning appeal rejected/appraisal of use re jobs or houses 13 Feb 10 - new application may be on the way 18 Aug 12
Housing development in South Road (old railway sites) - opposition 18 Feb 06 - letter from David Smith of South Road objecting (WTPS) 11 Mar 06 - planning officers approve scheme 1 Apr 06 - scheme rejected on grounds of traffic danger (WTPS) 29 Apr 06 - cost of inquiry could be over £20,000 (WTPS) 6 May 06 - second planning application opposed (WTPS) 22 Jul 06 - council could have bought the site in 1965 (WTPS) 22 Jul 06 - site would make a perfect retail park 26 Aug 06 - English Heritage consulted over impact on Red Hall (WTPS) 7 Oct 06 - Stamford Homes prepares third planning application (WTPS) 22 Sep 07 - developers call it Red Hall Gardens without permission 12 Apr 08 - Lindum Homes win planning consent for second stage 23 Jun 12
Hubbard, Elbert – quote re man being a fool (TFTW) 4 Nov 06
Hughes, John - quoted in lost values article 19 Aug 00 - crime in the streets of Texas (Message from abroad) 26 Oct 02 - praise for Bourne web site (Message from abroad) 8 May 04
Hugo, Victor – quote re winter and spring (TFTW) 12 Jan 08
Hull evacuees – Robert Mayo’s visit and a short history 20 Aug 05
Huxley, Aldous – quote re facts never cease to exist (TFTW) 16 Sep 06 - quote re intellectual and sex (TFTW) 28 Jun 08 - quote re speed (TFTW) 6 Jul 13
Ibsen, Henrik – quote re fools (TFTW) 14 Feb 04 - quote re castles in the air (TFTW) 31 Oct 09
Ice creams – the high cost in the shops 9 Jun 07
Ice skating phased out at Baston Fen 1 Feb 03 - ice skating in 1894 and 1907 (From the archives) 31 Jan 04 - ice skating as a Christmas attraction 24 Sep 05 - ice skating at the Corn Exchange in 1876 24 Sep 05 - memories of ice skating/phased out by political correctness 3 Dec 05
Immigrants to the colonies changed their names 30 Aug 08 - immigrants from Bourne in the early 19th century 20 Jul 13
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Incinerator proposed for Bourne 18 Sep 10
Industry added to web site 3 Nov 01
Information required – new feature started on web site 3 Sep 05 - information boards in town taken over by BPS 26 Jul 14
Internet access for local councillors 13 Jan 01
Internet – U K figures for users (TWFW) 19 May 01 - new web site/Bourne On Line 16 Feb 02 - Internet coverage by local newspapers 24 Aug 02 - infinite intelligence/visit to Pskov in Russia 17 Jan 04 - to be archived by the British Library 26 Jun 04 - SKDC forums in Online sites get no councillor participation 12 Nov 05 - Internet publishing and the perils of plagiarism 8 Mar 14
Irnham - refused permission to photograph 18 Mar 00 - primroses in churchyard 22 Apr 06
Iraq war will be costly (TFTW) 16 Nov 02
Irnham gets Country Life award as a favourite village 27 Nov 04 - village cricket game versus Bourne in 1833 15 Nov 14
Irving, Washington – quote re woodland (TFWT) 17 May 08 & 29 Nov 14 - quote re little minds subdued by misfortune (TFTW) 24 Oct 09 - quote re Christmas charity (TFTW) 4 Dec 10
Ismay, Jack – expatriate dies in Australia, aged 81 17 Apr 10
Jackson, Andrew – quote re spelling (TFTW) 30 Aug 08
Jacobs, Nelly – retiring as town council clerk in August/profile 20 Jun 15
James, Henry – quote re summer afternoon (TFTW) 16 Aug 08 - quote re tradition (TFTW) 26 Oct 13
James, William – quote re opportunity (TFTW) 18 Aug 12
James, Betty – next gala concert planned for September 12 May 07
J D Birkbeck – memories of his book A History of Bourne 19 Feb 00
Jefferson, Thomas – quote re banking (TFTW) 26 Apr 14
Jehovah’s Witnesses build church in six days 12 Jun 04 - good coverage of the build by Lincs Free Press (WTPS) 12 Jun 04
Jennings, Anthony – quote re irresponsible councils (WTPS) 7 Feb 07 Bourne Diary Index - 68
- assessment of Wake House/inappropriate shop fronts 11 Sep 10
Jessie Bellamy up for sale for £450,000 19 Oct 13
Jewellers – another retailer opens in Bourne (Shop Watch) 23 Oct 04
Job Centre (Bourne) closed circa 1983 26 Oct 02
Jobs or houses appraisal 13 Feb 10
Johnson Brothers, agricultural machinery depot in Manning Road, to be sheltered housing complex (WTPS) 9 Jul 05 - stock to be sold by public auction (WTPS) 3 Dec 05
Johnson, Paul – quote re pop music being evil (TFTW) 16 Apr 05 - quote re absence of the motor car in cities (TFTW) 30 Jul 05 - quote re goodness springs from within (TFTW) 29 Apr 06
Johnson, Samuel – quote re love of life (TFTW) 26 Mar 05 - quote re those who die without a memorial (TFTW) 11 Oct 08 - quote re fishing (TFTW) 25 Apr 09 - quote re advertising (TFTW) 4 Jul 09 - quote re pleasure in unexpected places (TFTW) 6 Mar 10 - quote re the road to hell (TFTW) 27 Mar 10 - quote re men require to be reminded (TFTW) 26 Jul 14
Jones, Alan – honoured by the town council (WTPS) 27 Sep 03
Jones, Mrs Brenda, makes litter appeal (WTPS) 29 Mar 03 - Jim and Brenda Jones get Civic Society’s silver rose bowl 26 Jun 04 - Jim cleans the front of Baldock’s Mill with jet hose 30 Jul 05 - globe artichoke appears in garden 18 Aug 07 - Jim Jones awarded the MBE 13 Jun 09 - Jim and Brenda off to the Palace for his MBE 31 Oct 09
Jonson, Ben – quote re art and ignorance (TFTW) 21 Jul 12
Joyce, James – quote re names (TFTW) 3 Dec 11
Jubilee celebrations – memories of 1977 23 Feb 02
Judge, Edgar – chemist reprimanded for prescribing in 1907 22 Nov 03 - memories of Judge’s golden health tonic 31 Jul 10
Jung, Carl – quote re kindle a light (TFTW) 8 Mar 14
Junk mail 30 Jun 01 - methods of stopping unwanted mail/newspapers 13 Oct 07
Juvenal – quote re man who has nothing (TFTW) 9 May 09 Bourne Diary Index - 69
- quote re Who watches the watchers (TFTW) 11 Jul 09
Kate’s Bridge – origins of name and folklore surrounding it 11 Mar 06 - origins of name/short history/danger spot 20 Apr 13
Keats, John – Autumn poem over-worked 1 Sep 07, 5 Oct 13 & 14 Nov 15
Keep Britain Tidy campaign re litter 5 Oct 02
Keisby pond development 27 Mar 99
Kelby, Ted – veteran attender of council meetings seeks alternative venue because of disability 5 Mar 05 - chairman of BUDC not Mayor of Bourne 17 Jun 06 - origins of civic ball/biographical details 21 Apr 07
Kerr, Duncan – quote re value for money (TFTW) 11 Mar 06 - Duncan Kerr leaves SKDC without explanation 11 Apr 09
Kilroy-Silk, Robert – our MEP as a TV celebrity 29 Nov 08
King, Martin Luther - quote re living as brothers (TFTW) 8 Sep 07 - quote re measure of a man (TFTW) 15 Oct 11
Kingman, Councillor Jane – criticises inadequate policing (TFTW) 11 Aug 07 - co-opted to the town council 30 Jul 11 - contests county council elections for Bourne Abbey ward 27 Apr 13 - fails to win Bourne Abbey Ward/UKIP intervention 4 May 13
Kinnsway-Branston old shop in Eastgate sold/history 5 Mar 05 - new owner takes over 28 May 05
Kipling quote re winter and green grass (TFTW) 8 Mar 03 - quite re power of words (TFTW) 21 Jun 03 - quote re WWI and those who lied (TFTW) 13 Nov 04 - Lest we forget quote (TFTW) 1 Jul 06 - quote re bee marking end of summer (TFTW) 20 Nov 10
Kirkby Underwood church locked 6 Feb 99 - council house was home to two ex-patriate families 6 Feb 99 - new millennium bell for church & Frank Wyer profile 17 Mar 01 - Frank Wyer and his bell ringing marathon 11 Aug 01 - another tenant at No 6 Callans Lane 19 Oct 02 - carved statue mounted in church porch 1 Feb 03 - Wyer, Mrs Shirley, is an organist for 55 years (WTPS) 26 Apr 03 - windows smashed with conkers (WTPS) 4 Oct 03 - artificial flowers removed form grave (WTPS) 23 Apr 05 - artificial flowers are big business 30 Apr 05 - new roof fitted after lead theft 12 Jan 13
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Kirkman, Councillor John - absentee councillor 13 Mar 99 - objects to my article 20 Mar 99 - may change his mind re being absent 27 Mar 99 - backs down 3 Apr 99 - views on the Internet 17 Jun 00 - views on crime at civic dinner 5 May 01 - statement on Christmas lights issue 6 Jan 01 - defends high allowances for LCC members 4 Jan 03 - launches alternative budget (WTPS) 8 Mar 03 - article on pay parking added to web site 20 Mar 04 - quote re cemetery chapel rubble being valuable (TFTW) 8 Jan 05 - defence of poor attendance at meetings 6 Feb 05 - email re possible council tax rise (WTPS) 26 Feb 05 - quote re burden on town council finances (TFTW) 5 Mar 05 - to stand down from Lincolnshire County Council 19 Mar 05 - appointed chairman of South Kesteven District Council 7 May 05 - official limousine and an explanation 25 Jun 05 - piece of music to mark year in office (WTPS) 25 Mar 06 - calls for absent councillor’s dismissal (WTPS) 2 Sep 06 - resigns from town council after 27 years 16 Sep 06 - resigns from SKDC and quits politics 31 Mar 07 - visited every house at election time 30 Apr 11
Kirkup, James – quote re shafts of sunlight 22 Nov 08
Knowles, Philip, Councillor – 43rd Mayor of Bourne 30 May 15
Kremlin or the Commons quote (TFTW) 6 Jul 02
Krutch, Joseph Wood – quote re vandalism (TFTW) 30 May 09