THE fine banqueting hall of the George Hotel disappeared in the 1990s to make way for The George Shopping Centre.
Hotel's fine banqueting hall is now part of shopping centre
The ballroom, roughly where Kimi now stands, was noted for its large, gilded mirrors.
This picture was probably taken in about 1950-1951, as heading the top table is Susan Brace, who at the time was Mayor of Grantham.
Also in the picture are Mr T. H. B. Whiting, Mr N. C. Earle, Coun Cant and Mr H. Atkinson, which suggests it may have something to do with Aveling Barford.
Does any reader know which organisation is having dinner, or recognise any other guests.
The picture was sent in by Malcolm G. Knapp, of Swinegate, Grantham.
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Central's cricket team of 1936
Central's cricket team of 1936
THESE young cricketers were the Boys' Central School team, in 1936.
The school is now Little Gonerby Infants.
The picture was sent in by A. L. Ashdown, of Ottery St Mary, Devon, who is second from the right, back row.
Other members of the team he recognises are Ken Harrall, Alan Richardson, Len Bullock and John Baxter.
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Old boys dine at manor
Old boys dine at manor
THESE men were at the King's School Old Boys' Society annual reunion dinner held at Harlaxton Manor in December, 1990.
They are, from left – scriptwriter Howard Imber (old boy), David Gregory (science teacher), Ian Walters (society president), Derek Lee (King's headmaster) and Frank Bolton (society vice-president).
The picture was supplied by Mrs Panks, of Dudley Road, Grantham, with information supplied by Howard.
Three ladies from the library are identifiedTHE three women from the library (Memory Lane, March 14) have been identified by Howard Imber, of Grantham, and Margaret Johnson, of Allington.
At the back is Sheila Smith, of Harlaxton Road, daughter of former Mayor of Grantham Tom Smith. Front left is Jane Gray (nee Measures), now of Radcliffe-on-Trent, and Audrey Dickinson, who lives in South Africa.
Mrs Johnson said she was to be in the photograph, but she lived at Long Bennington and couldn't get there that day.
10 Years AgoGRANTHAM Town lost their FA Trophy quarter-final with Southport 3-1 in a replay after the sides drew
1-1 at The Meres in front of 3,695 spectators.
* South Kesteven councillors considered shutting the waiting room at Grantham bus station as part of a radical overhaul of the facility.
* The ball and plinth was restored to the top of Corby Glen's Buttercross after it had been knocked off by a New Year reveller attempting to climb the cross.
* Fifty-seven-year-old marathon runner Brian Read, of Wroxall drive, ran 26 miles on a treadmill in the Isaac Newton Centre and raised £350 for Arthritis Research.
* Aveling Barford unveiled a 40-tonne dumper truck, the first new truck style produced by the works for more than 15 years.
25 Years AgoJUST minutes before the start of the Mid-Lent Fair Mayor of Grantham Scott Garnet had to rush to shelter under a stall canopy as the town was hit by a violent hailstorm.
* Teams of runners pushed wheelbarrows from Grantham Guildhall to Lenton to raise money for the proposed talking newspaper for the blind.
* The town's only nightclub, the Phoenix on Bridge End Road, was allowed to dispense with it's members only status after licensing justices gave it an on-licence.
* South Kesteven District Council was cleared by the Ombudsman of maladministration in approving a large warehouse behind homes on Fifth Avenue, Grantham.
* Donald Greenwell, 53, manager of the Compass Café on the A1 at Colsterworth, received serious burns when the café's boiler exploded.
50 Years AgoTHE first night of Grantham Dramatic Society's troubled production of Waters of the Moon had to be cancelled because stand-in leading lady Jacqueline Richards was in London to receive her BA degree from the Queen Mother.
* Grantham Football League went ahead with a dinner at the George Hotel to celebrate its diamond jubilee despite it being discovered the league had been formed in a Market Place café 66 years earlier.
* Yorkshire and England cricketer Johnny Wardle gave a film lecture of MCC's tour of South Africa at Ruston and Hornsby's Coronation Hall.
* Coalmen delivering in Swaton had to 'run for their money' after high winds blew a note from a customers hand and it took them 20 minutes to catch it in a field hundreds of yards away.
100 Years AgoSPECIAL services were held in St John's Church, Spittlegate, under the auspices of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.
* Grantham Photographic Society was formed at a meeting of 25 people at the YMCA, where the club would be based.
* Jane Shaw, a milk dealer of Oxford Street, was fined £1 at Grantham Borough Police Court for selling watered down milk.
* Music shop White & Sentance, of Grantham, was selling the "latest and most popular records" at 12s 6d (62.5p) and the Improved Gramophone at 12 guineas (£12.60).
* The Good Shepherd, a "striking painting" by Grantham clergyman Dean Sabela, was on sale in Mr Ringer's shop window in Watergate, in aid of St Mary's School.
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