Brew Wales (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Okay the last Sams beer of the night. After the tastebuds being overwhelmed with the stouts earlier have decided that something different can only bring them back. Step forward Sam Smith's Organic Cherry Beer at 5.1% ABV and available in a 330 ml bottle. Brewed at Sam's other brewery, the Melbourne Brothers brewery in Stamford, Lincolnshire and blended and bottled at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster, this...
Jewellery By Shalini (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
We have two wonderful Wood Turners attending the Stamford Hand-Made Christmas Market on 6th December 2009 - Barry Windsor and Mike Dewsbury. Both Barry and Mike will be displaying a range of exclusive wood turned items created within Lincolnshire. Each piece is unique and totally hand crafted which is what makes it so special. I purchased a really well-made Charm Stand from Barry Windsor at the last...
PhotoReflect (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
click photo to enlarge A few days in London, and particularly an evening spent in Greenwich, had me thinking about an issue that I've dwelt on before - how many urban locations are still to be found where you can experience something (if only a little) of what our cities were like a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago? The specific prompt for this rumination was Turnpin Lane, near the market,...
Jane Austen's World (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Burghley House , a stately English manor in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England served as Lady Catherine De Bourgh’s estate of Rosings in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Join one of my favorite Anglophile/gardening/Jane Austen inspired blogs, My English Country Garden Blog as they visit Burghley House and discuss their family experience with the movie production during its filming....
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
South Kesteven may finally be dragged into the twentieth century with the same travel concessions for elderly and disabled people as have been enjoyed for years in every other part of Lincolnshire. The Conservatives who run the Grantham based South Kesteven District Council have finally been persuaded that they can afford to offer free concessionary travel on local buses before 9.30 in the morning....
Community News - Leicester Mercury (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Rutland: BigPinkHeart, a voluntary organisation raising awareness about positive social behaviour and promoting respect, held a Respecting Our Communities event at Rutland Water. The event was such a success that several young people joined the committee which wants to establish a National Day of Respect to be held every October 12. This year’s event was put together in four weeks by Sharon Clephane...
RAMBLER (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
This part of Stamford is in Northamptonshire not Lincolnshire - these small back streets are in an area known at Stamford Baron. .
Nan Hawthorne's Booking the Middle Ages (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
A Very Sad Day, October 14, 1066 Harold Godwinson, the last great hope of Anglo Saxon England, having just come from defeating his own brother Tostig and the Norse King Harald Hadrada at Stamford Bridge, had to turn and head south to meet the invading forces from Normandy near Hastings. The Saxon shieldwall faced Norman cavalry for the first time. During the battle a Norman archer let loose an arrow...
Jewellery By Shalini (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Great News for Designers, Artists and Makers in the Stamford, Lincolnshire area! A new Artisans Group - The Stamford Artisans Guild - has been been formed which aims to provide information about Locally Created Arts and Crafts in this area to people looking for something unique, hand-made and local. Come and see us at: www.stamfordartisansguild.co.uk
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Local Conservatives are outraged at a decision by their Party to parachute another Londoner into a Lincolnshire parliamentary seat. Some are threatening to quit Cameron's Conservatives after learning that all local applicants to replace disgraced North Hykeham and Sleaford MP Douglas Hogg have been excluded from the selection process - without even reaching the interview stage. Mr Hogg hit the national...
Magic and stage hypnosis (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
We considered giving away one of these Jane Eyre first editions for our anniversary contest , but we finally decided on Wuthering Heights gifts ;) St Mary's Books (Stamford, Lincolnshire, UK) is proud to be able to offer a beautiful FIRST EDITION copy of Jane Eyre: Currer Bell ( Charlotte Bronte). Jane Eyre An Autobiography in Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1847. First Edition. 8vo...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
Phillip Dutton holds a slender advantage after the first day of dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials at Stamford in Lincolnshire, where he is giving Truluck a first run at four-star level.
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 29/08/2009
Another photograph from my recent travels. The Crowland Abbey (originally Croyland Abbey) website explains its unfortunate early history: Croyland Abbey was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Lincolnshire, sixteen miles from Stamford and thirteen from Peterborough. It was founded in memory of St. Guthlac, early in the eighth century, by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, but was entirely destroyed and...
Fair Deal Phil (Free subscription) | 14/08/2009
So Tory MEP for the East Midlands Roger Helmer believes that homophobia does not exist ... I wonder what Nick Boles has to say about his colleague's latest outrage. Boles of course is reported to be openly gay - and Tory parliamentary candidate for Stamford and Grantham. More to the point, I suppose, what's David Cameron's response to this latest challenge from the hard-right of the Conservative Party...
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