Bourne Focus

A LIST OF ALL ARTICLES TO BE FOUND ON THIS WEB SITE

Prominent people are regularly invited to contribute to this feature but all articles will be considered and if you have something to say on a subject affecting Bourne and its people or affairs, then please email

 

7 Aug 2010		Battling to save the cemetery chapel by JACK SLATER, chairman Bourne Preservation Trust
15 Aug 2009		The Changing Village by BRYNLEY HEAVEN
16 Dec 2006		Christmas decorations appear too early by PHILIP PETTITT, verger at the Abbey Church
2 Sep 2006		The tale of a Liverpool lass by BETTY JAMES
24 Jun 2006		A street market is essential by GORDON COCHRAN, Chairman Bourne Chamber of Trade
27 May 2006		Beware of doorstep tricksters by Councillor TREVOR HOLMES
20 Mar 2004		The fen blow photographed by PETER SHARPE
3 May 2003		Nature conservation in the countryside by DAVE VANDOME, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

 

A CLOSER LOOK AT SOME ASPECTS OF OUR HISTORY   Features written by REX NEEDLE

 

14 Jan 2012		Praying for a cold, hard winter
31 Dec 2011		Musical to feature Charles Worth
3 Dec 2011		Angel Hotel's popular owner
19 Nov 2011		A friendship forged in wartime
5 Nov 2011		The Guy Fawkes connection
22 Oct 2011		Freemasons get new centre
8 Oct 2011		Harsh conditions for wrongdoers
24 Sep 2011		Memories of the flax industry
10 Sep 2011		The town's first BBC broadcast
27 Aug 2011		Trees for that special occasion
13 Aug 2011		Did Queen Bess sleep here?
16 Jul 2011		The struggle to form a youth club
2 Jul 2011		Market survives after 700 years
18 Jun 2011		A hospital's past revealed
4 Jun 2011		The chance to be first citizen
25 Mar 2011		Our early motor rally pioneers
26 Feb 2011		A Canadian visitor remembers
15 Jan 2011		Memories of our own railway children
19 Jun 2010		Changes at the doctor's house
8 May 2010		Workhouse link to President Roosevelt
26 Sep 2009		Remembering a racing pioneer
4 Jul 2009		Plaques to remember the famous
23 Jul 2005		The Rotary rose bowl awards

 

BOURNE FACTS - many things you may not have known about this town

 

The following recollections have been submitted by visitors for our series MEMORIES OF TIMES PAST

Photographs submitted by visitors can be found in our
PICTURE GALLERY

Entries from the Bourne Diary for November 1998 until December 2011
may be found in A Portrait of Bourne