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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

Photo by Rex Needle
Oil seed growing at Thurlby, near Bourne
 PHOTOGRAPHED AT 4.27 pm on THURSDAY 1st MAY 2008
Crops of oil seed can be seen in abundance around Bourne at this time of the year, huge swathes of yellow blossom stretching as far as the horizon. Some believe that this plant is out of place in a traditional English landscape but it was a familiar sight in the 17th century when the oil it produced was used by Dutch engineers draining the fens to lubricate their pumps. We found this crop on the outskirts of Thurlby village with St Firmin's church visible through the trees and no doubt the congregation on Sundays can smell its pungent odour when the wind is blowing from the south.

 

THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS READ AROUND THE WORLD
     A visitor logged on this week from Lohja, a town and municipality in the province of Southern Finland.


This edition includes

 

REX NEEDLE'S DIARY
 Chapel conservationists face delay CONTROVERSIAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE

 

OTHER NEW FEATURES
When the corn trade flourished
REMEMBERING OUR RED BRICK WAREHOUSES		 Court hearings finish
END OF AN ERA FOR THE TOWN HALL
A look back at 40 years ago
SCRAPBOOK REVEALS LIFE IN 1965		 Past vicar's jottings found
CHURCH NOTES FROM 150 YEARS AGO
CURRENT ISSUES 
 The Bourne Wood debate        Sign the online petition
Saving the cemetery chapel  

 

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

No 15 Bedehouse Bank - now demolished


This rare mediaeval mud and stud cottage was a Grade II listed building but was demolished with the approval of local councillors  and so inspired the formation of the Civic Society in 1977 to protect our heritage in the future.

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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LINKS - add your web site address to our list
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 WILL BE 10 YEARS OLD IN AUGUST
    Number of visitors during April - 8,785.  Overall ►

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