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BOURNE
Lincolnshire         England
in
 Words and Pictures

WRITTEN, RESEARCHED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

by Rex Needle

Population 15,000 with 5,500 homes  (2008 estimate), 71 listed buildings, town hall, corn exchange, five churches, town mayor and town council with 15 members returned every four years..

Town sign

 

Photograph of the Week

Photographed by Rex Needle
All is safely gathered in around Bourne
 PHOTOGRAPHED AT 1.19 pm on WEDNESDAY 1st OCTOBER 2008
Continuous bad weather delayed the corn harvest by several weeks but finally the sun burst through towards the end of September and enabled the combines finish the task, producing an excellent yield in the process. But hardly had the last trailer full of grain left the field outside my study window and the straw baler finished its work than the rain returned, showers that produced a magnificent rainbow across the sky, a reminder, perhaps, that all had been safely gathered in for another year.

 

THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS READ AROUND THE WORLD
     We had a visitor this week from Uppsala, a university city and the fourth largest in Sweden.


This edition includes

 

REX NEEDLE'S DIARY
 Residents demand Eastgate clean-up
 CONTROVERSIAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE

 

OTHER NEW FEATURES
How the October Fair began
CAR PARKING NOW THREATENS ITS FUTURE		 A pub crawl in past times
ALWAYS A PLACE FOR A PINT OR TWO
The Arnhem connection
WELCOMING THE PARAS BACK IN 1944		 The origins of the Car Dyke
 LEGACY OF THE ROMANS 2,000 YEAR AGO

 

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

Baldock's Mill in 1910


Our local river, the Bourne Eau, was once regarded as a beauty spot, wide and flowing and largely free of weeds and algae in this scene of tranquillity from a century ago showing Baldock's Mill and the Abbey Church in the distance.

See more about this town in times gone by

BBC Weather for BOURNE

 

 

CD-ROM

A PORTRAIT OF BOURNE
 The history of a Lincolnshire market town on CD-ROM from
the earliest times to the present day
  THE BOURNE CHRONICLE
  Dates, events and people in our history

FOR SALE - framed views of landmark buildings around the town
Delivered free to the Bourne area

 

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PICTURE GALLERY - submit a favourite photograph

PROMINENT PEOPLE - 500 names from past and present
PUBLICATIONS - relating to this town
READERS - remember past times
VISITOR COUNTRIES -  tell us where you are located

 

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THE BOURNE WEB SITE HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR OVER TEN YEARS
   Number of visitors in September   =   7,478 Overall ►

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