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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
Wheat crop awaiting the combine near Bourne
PHOTOGRAPHED AT 11.08 am ON THURSDAY 14th AUGUST 2008

Heavy rain in recent days has delayed the corn harvest again, as it has in previous summers, and the fields hereabouts, such as this one between Bourne and Dyke village which I can see from my study window, are still full of standing wheat and barley whereas at this time of the year they should be covered with straw bales and stubble. This is not so much climate change as our usual erratic weather pattern and it was ever thus, even in the earliest times, but as before, within days we will hear the hum of the combine as the crop is safely gathered in yet again, the harvest acting as a marker for the farming year which continues much the same whatever the weather.

 

THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS READ AROUND THE WORLD
     We have had a visitor this week from Faro, a city and municipality in southern Portugal.


This edition includes

 

REX NEEDLE'S DIARY
Security guards to patrol the Abbey Lawn
CONTROVERSIAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE

 

OTHER NEW FEATURES
Schoolboys demand playing field
PROTEST TO M P IN 1890 PAYS OFF
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
HOW THE TOWN CELEBRATED IN 1897
When a gasometer lit the town
PUBLIC POWER 100 YEARS AGO
Remembering Lady Catherine
DOES HER GHOST HAUNT THE RED HALL?

 

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

The street market in 1980


A move to bring the market back to the streets two years ago was shelved and this picture shows why. In past times, stalls blocked the pavements and created a traffic hazard which is why it was given its present location behind the town hall.

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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PROMINENT PEOPLE - 500 names from past and present
PUBLICATIONS - relating to this town
READERS -
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VISITOR COUNTRIES -
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THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS TEN YEARS OLD THIS MONTH
    Number of visitors in July = 8,593    Overall

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