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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.
Grantham Museum: Grantham: South Kesteven: Local: Local history, culture, Sir Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher and the World War II raid Dambusters: Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre: Grimsby: North East Lincolnshire: Maritime: Area 1950s fishing industry, also art exhibits Grimsby Town Hall Time Trap Museum: Grimsby: North East Lincolnshire: Prison
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Lee A (2019), The man who made the Museum: Arthur Smith and the founding of the Lincoln's City and County Museum. Part Two - the development of the Museum. Lincolnshire Past & Present, No. 115, Spring 2019, pp. 13–17. Little A G (1906), Grey Friars of Lincoln in Victoria County History of the County of Lincoln, Vol II (ed. W. Page) pp. 222–4.
The mayor's parlour in the guildhall remains the meeting place for the charter trustees who continue to appoint the mayor of Grantham each year. [10] A blue plaque was unveiled on the wall of the old prison building in 2014 to commemorate the life of Edith Smith, the first woman police officer in the United Kingdom with full power of arrest. [11]
A proposal to erect the statue in Grantham was made in 2018 by the Grantham Community Heritage Association (GCHA), which runs the Grantham Museum, and approval was given in February 2019 by South Kesteven District Council. Funding was provided through a local appeal and contributions from a charity, the Public Memorials Appeal. [9] [10] [11]
It is based at Hemswell Cliff in Lincolnshire, England and is a Charitable incorporated organisation. [1] [2] The group was founded by people with large private collections of broadcasting equipment, including several Outside Broadcast (OB) vehicles. [3] [4] [5] It is led by six trustees, many of them working or retired broadcast industry ...
National Cycle Collection. The National Cycle Museum is a national museum dedicated to cycling in the United Kingdom and is based in Llandrindod Wells, Wales. [1]A collection of bicycles through the ages established in 1981 in premises on the estate of Belton House, near Grantham.