WITH the 46th Grantham Musical Festival having just come to an end, this photograph looks back at some of the committee which organised the festival in 1972.
These are the people who ran music festival 35 years ago
They are pictured in the Shepherd's Hall, next to the Finkin Street Methodist Church.
The Festival of Music, Speech and Drama as it was known was held at the end of April and beginning of May and attracted more than 650 entries, 500 in the music classes.
Pictured, are from left, back – Philip Lank, Peter Scott, John Wood, festival president and King's School headmaster Gerald Goodban, Geoff Mizen, Jim Hayhow, general secretary Bob Jeffreys, and chairman Wilfred Allen; front – Evelyn Dawes, Anne Abbott, adjudicator Iris Lemare, of York, Ruth Hirst, and Miss M. E. Pick.
Town club faced falling gates in 1931
Town club faced falling gates in 1931
THIS is Grantham FC in the 1931-32 season.
They played in the Midland League, but even in those days when Saturday afternoon at a match was popular the club was concerned by falling gates.
Just over 50,000 went to see matches at London Road that season, not enough for the club to feel financially comfortable.
They had also just lost long-time chairman Arthur Eatch who said: "I don't get pleasure from the club any more."
Unfortunately, this postcard sold to fans, does not include the names of the players.
It was sent in by Terry Bond, of Chichester Close, Grantham.
Half a village team
Half a village team
THESE five cricketers played for Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir in 1955. We don't know why they were pictured on their own and not with the team or where they were playing. They are from left, back – Dennis Braisby, Bob Lilley and Harold Pearce; front – Horace Taylor and Patrick Williams.
The picture was sent in by Sheila Osborn, of Main Street, Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir. Photo: 6691K
10 Years AgoGRANTHAM Town FC said they would bring in stewards from Darlington to tighten security for the club's FA Trophy quarter-final against Southport at the Meres.
* Yobs hurled bricks at poultry on a smallholding near Ancaster, killing six chickens and maiming seven others.
* Barrowby Road East residents' group joined forces with the Chamber of Trade to call for a judicial review of South Kesteven District Council's go-ahead for an Asda supermarket.
* Grantham College had to call off a lecture on fire safety only minutes before it was due to start, when a fire broke out in a residential block on the campus.
* The clock bells at St Wulfram's Church were turned off to allow filming to take place of a concert for a BBC2 programme.
25 Years AgoARMED police kept an overnight stakeout on the Anglia Building Society, High Street, after a masked intruder held up the manager at his Barrowby home and stole office keys.
* Young BMX bike riders at Barrowby were told to quit a scramble course on the parish-owned sportsground because it was directly above a gas main.
* KGGS pupils Sara Rhys, Philippa Smith and Helen Rodd talked their way to the finals of a public speaking contest but couldn't take part because two of them had prior commitments on finals day.
* Grantham and District Volunteer Bureau opened in Westgate House staffed by three paid full-time workers.
* Anne Ward became the first woman churchwarden in the 800-year history of St Wulfram's Church.
50 Years AgoWORK began on a £200,000 scheme to extend Grantham Hospital by building new wards to increase the number of beds from 118 to 200.
* Ironstone workers at Colsterworth quarries were placed on a four-day week as national demand for certain types of steel dropped.
* Grantham Waterworks said it had pumped 11 million gallons fewer than the previous year and that it was partly due to the replacement of steam locomotives with diesels.
* Showing at the Granada cinema, on St Peter's Hill, was prisoner-of-war movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, starring Alec Guinness.
* Essex and England cricket all-rounder Trevor Bailey was in town to give a film lecture organised by the Grantham Municipal Entertainments Committee.
100 Years AgoGRANTHAM Philharmonic Society gave a performance of Handel's Messiah in the Exchange Hall, High Street, to a "closely attentive" audience.
* Few people turned up to a meeting in the school room at Croxton Kerrial, which aimed to raise interest in the Territorial Forces scheme for the country.
* The fledgling Grantham Company of the Church Lads Brigade held their first church parade, assembling at Little Gonerby School and marching to St Wulfram's via Castlegate, Finkin Street and the High Street.
* Farmworker James Henry Hindes, 28, of Whatton-in-the-Vale died of lockjaw several weeks after accidentally stabbing his thigh with a pitchfork.
* Grantham Conservative Miniature Rifle Club lost a match on its new range to Grimsby Corporation by 765 shots to 742.
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