Recommended donation £2 Celebrating FREE EVENTS FOR 25 YEARS ALL AGES of Heritage Open Days MEET THE VOLUNTEERS RESTORING OUR ICONIC BUILDINGS Visit the county’s NATURAL COASTLINE #LincsHODs @HeritageLincs www.heritagelincolnshire.org FRONT COVER.indd 1 07/06/2019 14:31 Discover the fascinating stories of Barton upon Humber HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 2019 LINCOLNSHIRE LEARNING, WISDOM & FOLKLORE Friday 13 - Sunday 22 September An action-packed 10 days celebrating the rich heritage of this special area of North Lincolnshire at 16 diff erent venues. Check out the full programme on the website below, follow us on Facebook and look out for our souvenir brochure around the region! www.barton-upon-humber.org.uk www.facebook.com/HistoricBarton INSIDE FRONT COVER.indd 2 07/06/2019 11:18 CONTENTS Welcome To the Heritage Lincolnshire Guide 2019. The guide introduces you to some of Lincolnshire’s hidden treasures, allowing guests and visitors the opportunities to visit some of these iconic buildings which are not open all year round. n 2019 we will be celebrating the festival’s 25th Sunday 22nd September 2019. This will give everyone anniversary with the theme of Lincolnshire Learning, more time to visit the special places taking part. I Wisdom and Folklore. This year’s theme seeks to We would like to thank our partners Lincolnshire celebrate learning in its widest possible sense, from County Council, East Lindsey District Council, skills sharing to folklore, and academic heritage to InvestSK, North Kesteven District Council, North East military training. For the first time ever the festival will Lincolnshire Council and South Kesteven District take place over a ten day period, from Friday 13th to Council for their support. Contents 4&5 Natural Coast 7 Barton’s Heritage Open Days Anderby Creek 9 Heart of Lincolnshire 10&11 Heritage Lincolnshire 12-14 Valiant Volunteers Stamford Georgian Festival 15 South Kesteven 16&17 Lincolnshire Churches Festival Media & Marketing 19 Love Lincolnshire Wolds NEWSPAPERS | MAGAZINES | WEBSITES 21 Maritime History Lincolnshire Wolds 23-25 Quick reference listings KM Media & Marketing, County House, 9 Checkpoint Court, 26 Lincolnshire Map Sadler Road, Lincoln LN6 3PW 28 Accommodation listings MediaKM Media & Marketing & Marketing Website: km-media.co.uk YourNEWSPAPERS partner | MAGAZINES in publishing | WEBSITES Email: [email protected] ONLINE | IN PRINT | IN DIGITAL Telephone: 01522 692542 29-47 Heritage Open Days listings HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 2019 | Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd September 3 CONTENTS.indd 1 07/06/2019 11:20 Media & Marketing NEWSPAPERS | MAGAZINES | WEBSITES NATURAL COAST 1 Lincolnshire’s Natural Coast: so many former lives Words: Mary Powell After many years working, somewhat obsessively, on the restoration of Lincoln Castle, I’m almost rediscovering my love for the rest of this amazing county. y new obsession for this past year This is a precious and sensitive natural has been Lincolnshire’s Natural landscape of beaches, dunes, marsh and M Coast. After a visit last Easter to mudflats that must be protected. However see the North Sea Observatory at Chapel there is a further fascinating, almost hidden Point, which was nearing completion, I heritage to discover, from the salt making realised that I had forgotten how gloriously industry of Roman and medieval times big these beaches are, how spectacular to the anti-invasion defence works of the 1. Anderby Creek the nature reserves, the wealth of bird life Second World War. 2. Rimac, Saltfleetby- and how very few visitors there are. Has Look out for mounds in the landscape; Theddlethorpe Dunes 3. Freiston Shore everyone else forgotten too, I wondered? manmade, these are salterns, the waste 4 #LincsHODs | @HeritageLincs | www.heritagelincolnshire.org PAGE 04 & 05.indd 2 07/06/2019 11:20 Winston Churchill’s famous speech delivered on 4th June 1940 - “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender” - defines the areas of English landscape today where the remains of the extensive defence systems built in 1940/41 can be found. Although no ground fighting took place on British soil, the relics of these defences represent battlefields that were prepared, but 2 thankfully never needed. Much survives along Lincolnshire’s coast heaps from salt making, an industry that as an evocative reminder of the desperate was widespread along the Lincolnshire days of 1940. These concrete remains, coast for thousands of years. Salt often hidden by vegetation, are recent was essential for flavouring and as a history, within the lifetime of some or the preservative and every society since the immediate memory of their children. The Bronze Age has tried its hand at making landscape is given added meaning by the salt along this coast leaving evidence presence of these defences. behind, some of which is buried by Visiting Lincolnshire’s Natural Coast millennia of flood deposits. The salt was repays visits across the seasons. This is transported out of the marshes along the a migration superhighway so expect a long straight droveways known as ‘salt constantly changing range of visiting birds; roads’ or through Lincolnshire ports such as not necessarily a best time, just a whole Saltfleet, Somercotes and Theddlethorpe, series of brilliant opportunities. A thriving now long since silted up. colony of grey seals arrive to give birth in I have a soft spot for Freiston Shore the winter months making for a noisy and as some years ago I played a very minor unforgettable wildlife spectacle as around role in the managed coastal realignment 2,000 pups are born at Donna Nook. there, a fascinating conservation and flood The flowering and fruiting of the plant life defence project which involved breaching adds another dimension and supports the the outer sea wall, and re-establishing vibrant bird and insect life. Those banks of large tracts of open lagoon and salt marsh sculptural sea holly and sea buckthorn with leading to the RSPB reserve we see today. its vibrant orange berries are usually full of At the time it was the largest such scheme bird life and more, and it’s worth standing in the UK. Freiston Shore feels quiet and and staring a while just to see who calls this isolated now but in the first half of the 19th home. So visit Lincolnshire’s Natural Coast century it was a popular seaside resort with and see what you discover. visitors arriving by charabancs, at least two hotels and horse racing on the beach. As you walk around Freiston Shore there 3 is more evidence of a former life to be spotted. The fortifications built to protect Britain against German invasion began in June 1940 as a consequence of the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in France and the evacuation at Dunkirk. On the south and east coast the ‘Coastal Crust’ was designed to be the first line of defence against invasion; it involved many types of structure, some of which can still be seen at Freiston Shore. Pillboxes, searchlight batteries, anti-tank structures and machine gun posts. Gun emplacements were camouflaged as bungalows, ice-cream parlours or chicken sheds and linear marks bisecting fields are probably anti-landing trenches dug to prevent aircraft landing. HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 2019 | Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd September 5 PAGE 04 & 05.indd 3 07/06/2019 11:20 The East Coast’s AVRO LANCASTER best value family & BOMBER COMMAND MUSEUM attraction. SET ON A WW2 AIRFIELD THIS IS THE LARGEST BOMBER COMMAND MUSEUM IN THE WORLD!! • Diverse tropical sea life • Award-winning attraction • Pirate Treasure Island - Fun and educational • Discover the world beneath the sea • Bat Rays, Sharks, Seahorses... • ‘Young Mariners’ kids club Find us online Facebook and Twitter search Skegness Aquarium Call 01754 228200 • Dive & Snorkelling Experiences LINCOLNSHIRE AVIATION •Free Kids Play Area •Superb Bistro HERITAGE CENTRE East Kirkby Airfield, East Kirkby, Nr Spilsby Lincolnshire PE23 4DE Tel: 01790 763207 www.lincsaviation.co.uk 6 #LincsHODs | @HeritageLincs | www.heritagelincolnshire.org PAGE 06.indd 2 07/06/2019 11:21 BARTON UPON HUMBER Bunkers, shipyards, talks and tours for Barton’s Heritage Open Days 2019 festival! If you missed the opportunity to explore the public air raid shelter in Barton upon Humber during Heritage Open Days last year, you’ll have another chance this September. he Heritage Open Days 2019 festival 1 programme includes exclusive tours of T the Humber Bridge anchorage, a behind- the-scenes glimpse of Barton Haven Shipyard and even Tai Chi sessions at The Ropewalk! From Friday 13th to Sunday 22nd September 2019, 16 historic venues around Barton upon Humber will throw open their doors and offer a variety of unusual events and activities to celebrate their rich heritage. Last year’s festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the town, shining a spotlight on the history of this special area of North Lincolnshire. This year’s theme is “Lincolnshire Learning, Wisdom and Folklore”, so prepare to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in! Events are on offer for all the family, whether CREDIT: PAUL LAWES you fancy meeting the bats at Waters’ Edge a collaborative project between Wilderspin Nature Reserve or having a go at heritage National School Museum and Options Group, will printing at The Ropewalk and Wilderspin be open to explore on five different dates and will National School Museum. The “Barton Bunker”, include special guided tours. There’s also plenty of time to refuel during your visit, with a luxurious 2 Lincolnshire afternoon tea on offer at Bardney Hall, coffee mornings at Trinity Methodist Church, and delicious food and drink at The Ropewalk, Water’s Edge Visitor Centre, Wilderspin National School Museum and The Old Tile Works.