A sixteen year-old would not be allowed to jump on a 500cc motor bike and take to the roads today, but things used to be different and Bonnie Jackson passed his test on a 500cc Vincent HRD. That would begin a love affair with motor bikes that would last to the present day, leaving him [...]
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By Dr Avril Lumley Prior My fascination with St Pega, sister of the reclusive Guthlac of Crowland (died 716), began almost twenty years ago, when I discovered that this Mercian noblewoman and miracle-worker had founded a cell on the site of Peakirk Hermitage, which from 1980 to 2001 was occupied by members of an enclosed [...]
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When John Conder was lucky enough to drive an Austin 7 around Westwood airfield at the age of 10 it was the start of a passion that would continue to the present day, involve many hours work, but many more hours of fun. John’s father, Joe, who for many years owned Conder’s Garage, Lincoln Road, [...]
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If you’ve driven along Helpston Heath Road recently, you may have seen a drilling rig in the fields at the junction with Stamford Road. This work was undertaken by the Environment Agency and is associated with a major pollution incident at the nearby landfill sites known as Ben Johnson’s Pit and the Ailsworth Road Waste [...]
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Simon Hoppe grew up in Glinton and enjoyed a happy childhood with lots of friends and activities in and around the village. To many local people, he will be known or remembered as the boy often seen running or cycling around Glinton and surrounding villages, usually with some of his trusted border collie dogs in [...]
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By Avril Lumley Prior Our knowledge of the Fenland Saints – Guthlac of Crowland and his sister, Pega of Peakirk, is extracted mainly from an eighth-century Life of Guthlac, compiled by a monk named Felix, probably at Repton Abbey in Derbyshire.
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