THESE are members of Church Trees Disabled Club in about 1976.
Disabled club met in the church hall during the 1970s
In those days they met every Wednesday in St Wulfram's Church Hall, Church Street, for various activities
The founder of the club, Sian Brown, is second left on the back row.
On the right of the back row is Molly Clough, now of Belton Lane, Grantham, who sent in the photograph.
She was helper to Jim Harrop who is in front of her.
The club is still going, but now as the Church Trees Club for the Younger Disabled and is based at the Greyfriars Community Centre
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Watergate view has changed drastically
Watergate view has changed drastically
THIS picture, take by Barrie Cox in 1952 from St Wulfram's Church tower, is a fascinating view of part of Grantham that has largely gone under the bulldozer.
The steam train is approaching Barrowby Road bridge, with Greenhill beyond and then fields, which became Barrowby Gate estate.
This side of the railway are allotments, now under Asda and Sankt Augustin Way. In the foreground are the buildings either side of Watergate, and to the right those on Brook Street, on the site that eventually became Premier Court.
Some buildings remain and The Nobody Inn (then the Joiners Arms), on the corner of Union Street, can be seen clearly. Photo: 4058
At home with the Hunts
At home with the Hunts
THIS is Mr and Mrs Hunt outside their house in Carlton Scroop, although we don't know when the picture was taken. The house is still there, now surrounded by trees, next to the Sudbrook Moor Golf Course. The picture was brought in by Kate Morgan, of Caythorpe. Photo: 6155
10 Years AgoGRANTHAM Leisure Centre in Union Street closed and bulldozers moved in to clear the site to make way for an Asda supermarket.
* Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, on Sandon Road, had to turn away 50 girls who had passed the 11+ exam because the school was full.
* Local league cricket umpire 66-year-old Brian Jallands, of Bottesford, kept his hand in while on holiday in Australia by umpiring two games, including one at the Bradman Oval in Sydney.
* As building work began on the new Tom Cobleigh family pub on Barrowby Road, Coun John Foster said there should be a rethink on the proposed name of The Mad Hatter.
* Patrons of Grantham Music Festival were asked to stump up the £1,500 needed to refurbish the grand piano at the festival's base at Finkin Street Methodist Church.
25 Years AgoSTAFF at Grantham Crematorium were on the alert following a spate of thefts of memorial floral tributes and pot plants from the courtyard area.
* Grantham firemen launched a disaster fund to help the families of 12 volunteer firefighters who died in bush fires that raged through the town of Cockatoo in Australia.
* Many students were absent from their classes at Grantham College as they opted to take part in the nationwide protest against education cuts.
* Grantham Town FC had to slash its weekly wage bill of £460 by 50 per cent, but all players with the exception of captain Colin Foster decided to stay with the club.
* Mayor of Grantham Scott Garnet cut a cake to open a new 5,200sq ft distribution centre on Dysart Road Industrial Estate for electrical retail chain Rumbelows.
50 Years AgoWILLIAM 'Dodger' Hobson, 74, who had umpired Grantham Cricket Club games for 'as long as anyone could remember' retired.
* Colsterworth Employment Exchange, which had been run by postmaster Mr A. W. Skillington since it opened in August 1912, closed.
* Grantham Town centre forward Jimmy Rayner scored a hat-trick in a 5-4 Midland League home win over Rotherham United Reserves in front of a 1,208-strong crowd.
* More than 80 players, former players and officials of Grantham St Johns FC attended a club reunion, its first since forming in 1916.
* Rector of Great Gonerby, the Rev R. L. Crampton and his family, were packed and ready to leave for a missionary role in Western Australia when the job fell through because of immigration problems.
100 Years AgoTHE Lord Bishop of Lincoln, Dr King, consecrated a new burial ground at Barkston.
* At the annual meeting of Grantham Hospital it was revealed there had been 205 inpatients during the previous year and 150 operations carried out.
* The Middlemore Minstrels gave a concert to the inmates at Grantham Workhouse, with a sketch of a mock council meeting 'causing much merriment'.
* The Post Office put up a pillarbox at the junction of Greenhill and Barrowby Road for the 'convenience of the growing neighbourhood'.
* The removal of inmates from Claypole Workhouse, which was to close, was delayed because the number of inmates there exceeded the number of beds at the new workhouse in Newark.
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