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BOURNE
Lincolnshire         England

in
Words and Pictures

WRITTEN, RESEARCHED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

by Rex Needle

Population 15,000 and 6,000 homes (estimated 2012), 71 listed buildings, town hall, corn exchange, seven churches, town mayor and town council with 15 members returned every four years.

Town sign

 

Photograph of the Week

Photographed by Geoff Bell
Feeding the family in Bourne Wood

PHOTOGRAPHED ON MONDAY 13th MAY 2013

We are in the middle of the nesting season for our wild birds and the signs of this annual activity are everywhere, particularly in Bourne Wood where this robin was spotted this week already busy feeding a growing family. This is probably the most popular of our native species although the bright orange-red breast, brown back and dumpy shape is a more familiar sight in the back garden throughout the winter months but they can be seen just as often in spring and summer and they are the only ones that sing all year round. Their usual diet is worms, seeds, fruits and insects and this bundle of tasty morsels that has just been collected is obviously going to feed a few hungry mouths in a nearby nest.

Readers are asked to submit their own pictures to be considered for our
Photograph of the Week feature. Read more.

 

 

THIS EDITION ALSO INCLUDES
SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE
Building the new garage in South Road
Musical memories of yesteryear
REMEMBERING BOURNE TOWN BAND
Ringing the changes down the ages
THE BELLS OF THE ABBEY CHURCH

 

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

Traffic now dominates the town centre but there was a time when animals took precedence, especially on market days when farmers and dealers flocked in to buy and sell from special pens erected down the middle of the street.

Photographed in 1900

Read more about this town from times gone by

 

 

 

ARTICLES  - topics on the town's history
FORUM - have your say on matters of the day
PICTURE GALLERY - photographs taken by readers
PROMINENT PEOPLE - 500 names from past and present
PUBLICATIONS - relating to this town

 

TALES OF BOURNE FROM PAST TIMES
A substantial book about the history of this town running
to 200 pages with 150 photographs both modern and contemporary
 BRIEF LIVES OF BOURNE PEOPLE
 Fifty biographies of the great and the good

A PORTRAIT OF BOURNE
The history of this town on CD-ROM from the earliest times to the present day, now revised and greatly extended for the 2013 edition.

CD-ROM

 

TRADESMEN YOU CAN TRUST
in the Bourne area

 
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