Main Index

Administration
The Manors of Bourne and Bourne Abbots
The Town Hall The subscribers TheTown Hall fire of 1933 The Town Hall clock Local government The Town Council First Citizens since 1894 A history of the mayoralty The Coat of Arms Bourne United Charities Population The Market Place Housing	The Town Hall pictured from West Street, August 2002
Roads & traffic The south-west relief road Street clutter The Town Cemetery The cemetery headstone survey When Bourne was clean and smart The Lincolnshire flag
A Vision for Bourne - The Town Centre Management Partnership The town centre of the future

Some old buildings of interest

Almshouses

The Old Bakehouse

Baldock's Mill

Bourne Eau House

Bourne House

Cavalry House

The Croft

Eastgate House

The Old Maltings

Monkstone House

Shippon Barn
Vestry Hall

Wellhead Cottage

The Red Hall from the rear
The Red Hall, built circa 1605

The Red Hall

The Bourne Institute The Corn Exchange

The Angel Hotel The Burghley Arms The New Inn Inns & other hostelries

The land and its history
The corn harvest underway near Carlby	The Bourne Eau The corn harvest The growth of agriculture Borage Flax Gypsies as farm workers Hedgerows Oil seed The pea harvest Ploughing Poppies Root crops Scarecrows Sunflowers and nyger
The cattle market The Christmas Fatstock Show Sheep shearing Norths of Bourne, forage merchants E N Moody & Sons Ltd - watercress and flowers
The fens The fen blow Fen flooding in past times The Great Fen Flood of 1910 - a pictorial record Draining of the North Fen Draining of the South Fen
Nature conservation Wildlife in past times

Religion and beliefs

The Believers

The Baptist Church

The Cooneyites

Eastgate Mission Church

Jehovah's Witnesses

The Methodist Church

The Roman Catholics

The Salvation Army

Sunday Schools

United Reformed Church

The Quakers

The Abbey Church Bourne Abbey The Abbey House

Past incumbents The vicarage The churchyard

Ledger stones in the Abbey Church The organ and bells of Bourne Abbey church

An architectural description of the church by H F Traylen

A History of Bourne Abbey by David Roffe

The Abbey Church in past times Slate headstones in our churchyards

Benches and pews in our parish churches

The view from the church tower

Public and community services

The latest £100,000 fire tender for Bourne delivered November 2001

Allotments

Ambulance

Banking

Bill posting

Delaine Buses

The Fire Brigade

The Leisure Centre

Newspapers

The police

The Post Office

Public library

Rubbish

Water supplies

Water boreholes in and around Bourne The mineral water industry

The sewage system The water cart The blind well

The railways The east coast main line

Memories of the railway steam age in Bourne The railway navvies Toft Tunnel

Lord Willoughby's private railway The one million mile railwayman

Ernest Smallman, newsagent at Bourne station

A horse drawn taxi service to the railway station The Mallard steam record of 1938

Health and welfare
Bourne Hospital The death of Bourne Hospital New homes for an old hospital Memories of Bourne Hospital The Butterfield Hospital St Peter's Hospital The Old Isolation Hospital
Bourne House children's hostel A Country Practice Health care Opium use in the 19th century Sanitation in 1890 Sanitation in 1907 The smallpox outbreak of 1893 The anti-vaccinators Social Education Centre St John Ambulance Brigade The workhouse	Bourne Hospital which was demolished in 2003
A medical casebook This mortal coil
Housing for the elderly

Education past and present

The old grammar school in the churchyard

Bourne Grammar School

Robert Manning College

Abbey Primary School

Westfield Primary School

Willoughby School

The Old Grammar School

Private Schools in Bourne

National School, North Street

National School, Eastgate

An Alien in the Classroom

The Play's the Thing

Sport, leisure and social activities

Bourne Angling Association

Bourne Cricket Club

Bourne Literary Society

Bourne Town Bowls Club

Bourne Town Football Club

Boy Scouts & Girl Guides

The Conservative Club

Darby & Joan Hall

The Leisure Centre

The October Fair

The Pyramid Club

The RAOB Club

The Theatre

Wake House

Wake House in North Street

Bourne Youth Centre Demolition of the old youth centre

The Civic Society The Rotary Club of Bourne Bourne Round Table

Twinning with Doudeville

The Wellhead Gardens The recreation ground

The boys of Bourne protest of 1890 wins them a recreation ground

The Outdoor Swimming Pool The pool in past times How the pool came to be built

Sporting, social and professional organisations Sporting activities from past times

Vandalism, litter & graffiti

The old town

Church Walk

Church Walk on the approach from South Street

Church Walk

St Peter's Road
West Road

West Street

Woodview

Wherry's Lane

Willoughby Road

The North Street Terrace No 32 North Street

The Ostler memorial The Bourne motor racing memorial

Modern Bourne

Beech Avenue

Beech Avenue

The Burghley Centre

Exeter Street

Harrington Street

Maple Gardens

Mill Drove

Queen's Road

Elsea Park

Hereward Meadow

Business & Industry Commerce Sainsburys Budgens Tesco

Prominent people past and present

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies"

- Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian and essayist (1795-1881).

11th century

Oger the Breton

Hereward the Wake

The Wake family

12th century

Orm the Preacher

13th century

Geoffrey of Bourne

Robert Manning

16th century

William Cecil

Robert Harrington

Job Hartop

Sir Edward Harwood

John Jackson

The Trollope family

17th century

Jeremiah Ives

18th century

William Bampton

Bryan Browning

Dr William Dodd

The Dove family

The Pochin family

William Worth

19th century

T W Atkinson

Thomas Baxter

Cecil Walker Bell

Henry Bott

Cuthbert Bradley

Mary Ann Buckberry

James Carvath

Edward Clark

J J Davies

An artist's impression of Hereward the Wake

Ashby Swift

J T Swift

William Walpole

Albert E K Wherry

William Wherry

Charles Worth

John Worsdall

Lilian Wyles

Early 20th century

Earl of Ancaster

Jack Burchnell

Sir Maurice Heath

Dr George Holloway

Viscount Midleton

Thomas Leonard Pick

George Ernest Robinson

Florence Tipler

Lorenzo Warner

Percy Wilson

Harold Withers

Present day

J D Birkbeck

Marjorie Clark

Ray and Shirley Cliffe

Karen Corr

Quentin Davies M P

Don Fisher

Betty James

Brenda Jones

John Kirkman

Dr Michael McGregor

Linda Neal

Judy Smith

Ernest Foley

Thomas Hinson

Charles Pask Matthews

Robert Mason Mills

Frederick Nash

John Lely Ostler

William Parker

John Thomas Pearce

Arnold Pick

William Redshaw

Harry Ringrose

Arthur Saul

Charles Sharpe VC

The Shilcock family

Harry Shillaker

Henry A Sneath

Frederick Sones

Horace Stanton

The immigrants
Thomas Deacon Joseph Tye Flatters John Layton Charles Mapperson

Raymond Mays

A pictorial scrapbook His choice of Desert Island Discs

The BRM silver trophies Jackie Stewart at Monza

The Bourne motor racing memorial BRM historic recording - 1955

Why we should remember Raymond Mays

Personnel who worked for BRM Trissie Carlton Tony Rudd

Thomas Mays George Mays Mays and Sons

OTHERS WHO HAVE PLAYED A PART IN BOURNE'S HISTORY INCLUDE
Edward Andrew Thomas Ball George Edwin Bett Dr George Blasson William Bradley John Branston Willerton Brown James Watson Burdwood Joseph Burn John Campbell William Castledine Frederick Clarke George Collinson Albert Dainty Hugh Delaine-Smith Harry Dowsett	Charles Everard Leslie Ferriby Reginald Foster A C Glendening Thomas Glendening James Goodyear Harry Goodyer John Grummitt William Hall John Hinson Hugh Hobson Susannah Hobson Edwin Horn Henry Kelham William Kingston George William Knipe	William Lister John Lunn John Mansfield Thomas T Mawby Thomas Measures Birt Morris Frederick John North Joshua North William Nowell Mary Parker William Pearce Thomas Pick William Earle Pick John Pool Richard Reeve John Roberts	Eunice Rogan Tony Rudd William Scott Reg Sones Thomas Shippey Ernest Spridgeon Alec Stokes Edward Stringer Stuart Stroud Henry Stubley Cecil Sweetnam George Tory William Welldon
See More brief biographies

Bourne at war

The war memorial in Bourne

An airman's tale

The Army Cadet Force

The Belgian refugees

Bourne Military Hospital

Bourne rifle range

The Civil Defence

The Drill Hall

The Hull evacuees

Pillboxes

Royal British Legion

Street Parties 1945

Victory Parade 1995

The War Memorial

The Bourne Volunteers The Lincolnshire Regiment

The English Civil War of 1642-49

The Crimean War of 1854-56 Letters home from the Boer War of 1899-1902

Letters from the trenches during the Great War of 1914-18

The Great War peace celebrations

HMS Beryl & Polyanthus The Eastgate plane crash

The Girls' Training Corps The Women's Land Army The WRVS

The Home Guard Royal Observer Corps The Arnhem connection

Waste paper recycling during World War Two

A glimpse of years gone by

Bourne basket works The Bourne Cow Club The Bourne Flitch Trial Bourne's first department store Bourne gasworks Bourne Town Band Cast iron grave markers The corn trade warehouses Domestic life in past times Early days on the road The hunting field Feasts and treats	The Klondyke horse sanctuary The May Statute fairs A history of the Tudor Cinema Notley's Mill Penny readings The potteries from Roman times Royal occasions down the ages Temperance and the evils of drink Tin tabernacles The Victoria Hall Unemployment in the 1920s White Bread meadow
Trades & occupations Brick making Sandall's the bakers Smith's the butchers George Tory, candlemaker
Earthquake, wind, fire and flood Snow Snow scenes from 2004
The Lincoln Architectural Society meeting of 1861 The Grand Bazaar and Art Exhibition of 1888 The Arts and Industrial Exhibition of 1911 The Lincolnshire Agricultural Show in Bourne - 1939 The Cliffe shop fire of 1898 The Meadowgate fire of 1922
Law and order Crime and punishment Transportation to the colonies Guy Fawkes Night celebrations in past times Love and jealousy - attempted murder and suicide in 1876 Poaching in the 19th century The 1889 case of the 15 tramps The Boer War peace celebrations of 1902 The Hereward Labour Camp and Approved School

Photographs of Bourne in past times

The Market Place, circa 1900

The Town Hall The Market Place The Market Place - then and now

Before the arrival of the motor car

Abbey Road

The Austerby

Eastgate

North Road

North Street

The Red Hall

South Road

South Street

St Peter's Pool

West Road

West Street

Willoughby Road

Abbey Lawn The Ostler memorial Lost cottages The Red Hall

North Street - then and now No 32 North Street No 49 The Terrace - then and now

South Street - then and now

West Street - then and now West Road - then and now

The Hollies - a glimpse of life No 27 North Road 100 years ago

Bourne in the mid-20th century The cattle market

Serendipity

Elsea Wood where Nanny Rut once lived
- see Haunted Bourne

Christmas in Bourne

The Everlasting Meat

A Gift from Bourne

Haunted Bourne

Pat of the Red Barrows

The Emma Searson mystery

Dick Sellars, gardener

Cyril Clay

Lincolnshire Yellowbellies

Policeman and gamekeeper

Strange but true

A miscellany of unusual occurrences from Bourne's history

Memories of yesteryear
An Alien in the House A Boy's Tale Bourne revisited Cycling through Lincolnshire Fishing in Bourne Learning to swim Polly's Tea Shop The Silver Jubilee Queen Village Games A Visit to the Library Watercress days When J F K was shot The workhouse children	The market place in Bourne on fair day in 1900
The best years of my life A child in care
An Evacuee from Hull Fishing and Wishing A Lincolnshire childhood Happy Days - youthful recollections from 30 years ago Life at the Hereward Approved School 1947-1950