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Pilgrims celebrated in new exhibition

BOSTON’S GUILDHALL REOPENS WITH ITS NEW ‘THREAD TO AMERICA’ EXHIBITION...

BOSTON The Guildhall in Boston will reopen from Wednesday 30th June with a new exhibition postponed from 2020. “‘Boston: The Threads to America,’ will be running until the end of August,” say organisers. “We hope that by having our doors open, rather than having limited access through a booking system, more people will have the opportunity to view the exhibition and the museum collections.” “The exhibition shares a complex and compelling tale of intrigue and influence. It explores Boston’s role in the Pilgrims’ story and also the later founding of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1630.” “The thread that links the story of the Pilgrims in Boston to the puritans, who left for America in 1630, is a Boston cloth dealer, Leonard Beetson.” “The exhibition is supported by original documents on loan from the Lincolnshire Archives, which have never been on public display together before, and that help tell these stories.” Built in the 1390s, Boston Guildhall is the very building where the Pilgrims were tried and held. Visitors can also view the prison cells and stand in the court room where they were tried. Boston is known as the port and market town where, in 1607, a group of separatists famously attempted to escape to the Netherlands, only to be betrayed and arrested. n See www.mybostonuk.com.

Local food, national delivery

FOOD DELIVERY COMPANY YUMMY CAN NOW DELIVER LOCAL FOOD NATIONALLY

YUMMY The sister company of Pride Magazines, Yummy, reached its first anniversary last month and to celebrate the milestone, we’ve launched Yummy nationally, and can now provide ‘Local Yummy food, nationally delivered.’ Partnering with our new national courier means we can now deliver meat from our high quality local butchers, fish from our fishmongers, fruit, vegetables, artisan bread, cheese, and speciality foods like our Smokehouse barbecue products, DIY pizzas, homemade cheesecakes and other produce, right across the country. Your order is delivered anywhere in the UK, fresh to the door, in a single consignment. Our national courier can also let our customers know when their order will be arriving and when it has been delivered. Customers can also pay a little extra to specify a delivery before 10.30am or 12 noon, or opt for standard delivery (up to 8pm). Yummy now partners with 25 of the area’s best suppliers and has delivered over 100,000 products. We will add more speciality food products from the UK throughout 2021. n See www.yummy.co.uk.

It’s Back to The Hub

NEW LOOK AND OLD NAME FOR NCCD

SLEAFORD A £1.2m investment in Sleaford’s National Centre for Craft & Design is complete, and the centre is due to reopen as Pride goes to press. It will also be given back its original name; ‘The Hub.’ The year-long programme to extend the café, re-order the gallery space, create new accessible dance and workshop space is designed to re-focus its community provision. The Hub maintains Arts Council England’s national portfolio status and continues to operate as a national centre for craft and design, drawing world-class artists, exhibitions, and collaborations, as well as being a hub for more local-based and community creativity. The Hub opened at Navigation Yard in 2003, but was rebranded ‘The Centre for Craft & Design,’ in 2011. A £2.4m conversion of an old riverside warehouse, the building took over from The Pearoom at Heckington as the area’s arts and crafts centre. n

City Theatre’s Civic Award

NEW THEATRE ROYAL REOPENS FOLLOWING COVID AND RECEIVES A SPECIAL CIVIC AWARD TOO!

Cleethorpes’ role in bird migration celebrated...

CLEETHORPES A new twometre-tall recycling globe illustrates the vital role Cleethorpes plays in one of the largest mass migrations of animals on the planet. North East Lincolnshire Council teamed up with Blackrow Engineering from Grimsby and several other sponsors to create the globe. The sculpture recognises the fact that the area sees 90,000,000 birds each year take advantage of the rich feeding grounds found in Cleethorpes and the Humber Estuary. n

LINCOLN Double celebrations were the order of the day, as a top Lincoln entertainment venue received a special award and marked its re-opening after the latest Coronavirus lockdown. Custodians Natalie and Mike Hayes Cowley were thrilled to receive the Lincoln Civic Award for their renovation and reopening of the venue. “The whole theatre family is honoured to have been presented with the Lincoln Civic Award. Securing this prestigious accolade is beyond what we thought was possible when we became custodians of the theatre back in 2016,” says Natalie. n An investment of £5.56 million from the Government’s Future High Streets Fund was confirmed for Grantham last month. The money will pave the way for an ambitious programme of regeneration in the town, including converting empty retail units into new homes and workplaces, and an investment in the Market Place.

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LOCAL NEWS

In Brief

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The truth is out there... and the Police are on the case!

A Freedom of Information act request has reveled that in the last 12 months, Lincolnshire Police received five reports by members of the public of ghosts, and a report of a UFO, too. “We look at each report and assess the threat and risk based on the available information then respond accordingly,” says Lincolnshire Police’s Assistant Chief Constable Chris Davison.

“We may not be the best organisation to contact regarding close encounters of the alien or supernatural kind, though, as we tend to concentrate more on offenders down here on Earth.” n

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