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Grantham Radio Station, owned by NATS (En Route) Limited, for radio navigation for aircraft, and is situated in the north of Waltham near the Sproxton parish boundary. Grantham's local newspaper, the Grantham Journal, [158] first went on sale in 1854 as The Grantham Journal of Useful, Instructive and Entertaining Knowledge and Monthly ...
Grantham Museum is located at St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, in the building provided for it in 1926. The building also previously housed the public library, and was partly funded by the Carnegie UK Trust which was continuing Andrew Carnegie 's project of building libraries across the United Kingdom.
The Grantham Canal Society was formed soon afterwards, to promote restoration of the waterway. [16] In 1974, a National Boat Rally was held at Nottingham, to gain support for the restoration scheme, and to promote the idea of a new link to the Trent, which would pass through old gravel workings.
Local: History of the medieval guildhall, courtroom and the town, also art exhibits Bourne Heritage Centre: Bourne: South Kesteven: Local: Located at Baldock's Mill, local history, culture, auto racing driver Raymond Mays, fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth: Browne's Hospital: Stamford: South Kesteven: History: Medieval almshouse, tours ...
The guildhall was the meeting place of Grantham Borough Council until 1974 when the enlarged South Kesteven District Council was formed and the guildhall ceased to be the local seat of government; after a period of disuse it was converted into an arts centre, to a design by Tim Benton, in 1991. [9]
The hotel, originally named The Angel, started as a hostel built by the Knights Templar in 1203 on the Great North Road, which at the time passed through the centre of Grantham. [2] [3] [4] The hostelry was run by the Knights until their dissolution in 1312. [3] The hostel started developing into a coaching inn over the years.
The old barracks in Grantham were designed for the South Lincoln Militia and completed in 1858. [2] The design work was probably carried out by Henry Goddard. [3] The South Lincoln Militia evolved to become the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1881. [4]
Grantham was a Parliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire, England.. The constituency was created in 1468 as a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until the union with Scotland, and then to the Parliament of Great Britain until the Act of Union 1800 established the Parliament of the United Kingdom.