lColsterworth hosted its annual sheep-shearing competition. “The work done to a very high order,” reported the Journal.

lThe Queen was set to visit Grantham as the Journal went to press. A special dress rehearsal was held with Grp Off Jean Conan Doyle playing the role of the Queen.

lComedian and TV personality Don McLean visited Grantham to open the newly refurbished Woolworths store.

l Labour kept control of Grantham Borough Council, securing twice as many seats as the Conservatives.

l Plans to use Fulbeck as a home for radioactive waste were finally abandoned. The news was announced with a statement in the House of Commons.

l Mr and Mrs William Kemp, of Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, celebrated their golden wedding after 50 years of marriage.

l Grantham College was set to be home to a new water polo academy, which would attract some of the country’s best young players.

ROUNDERS champions this week featuring children from Huntingtower Primary School.

CORONATION day celebrations in Grantham saw the combined Army Cadet Force marching along the High Street.

l Grantham Music Festival was hailed by the Journal as “one of the greatest and most important advances ever made in the local musical world”.

l A new £500,00 sports hall was set to be built with lottery money at Central Technology College in Grantham.

l The Journal was reporting on “vast untapped coal reserves on the doorstep of Grantham” with the possibility of a coal pit opening at Denton.

lThieves broke into the home of a Grantham bank manager and stole Georgian silver worth an estimated £200.

WE return to Aunsby again this week, courtesy of villager Dave Lovell.

lGrantham musician Brian Locking became bass guitarist of “Britain’s number one beat group” The Shadows.

lGrantham Labour Party member and election candidate Owen Stanesby was tragically killed when he was struck by a car while walking in North Wales.