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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
ArtWorks Children's Museum, Ingleside; Barb City Motorcycle Museum, DeKalb, collection sold in 2013 [76] [77] Berwyn Route 66 Museum; Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum, Woodstock, closed in 2008, collection now online [78] Driehaus Gallery of Stained Glass, gallery of stained glass at Navy Pier closed in 2017
The Zippel family lived in the house until 1984, when the Old Six Mile Historical Society bought the house and made it a museum, known as the Old Six Mile Museum. [ 2 ] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1996.
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]
USCGC Acacia is a retired buoy tender with icebreaking capabilities serving as a museum ship moored near the railroad car ferry, SS City of Milwaukee. The World War II-vintage vessel is a tribute to the black-painted workhorses of the United States Coast Guard. A ribbon-cutting (announcing the ship's new role as a museum ship) was celebrated in ...
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]
Belton is a village in the civil parish of Belton and Manthorpe, in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A607 road, and 3 miles (5 km) north from the market town of Grantham. In 1921 the parish had a population of 145. [1]