LIFE OF LANCELOT: DIVERSITY & STRUGGLES IN LINCOLNSHIRE – CONTRAST FROM THEN AND NOW
Lancelot McFayden. Smithville, Jamaica to Boston, Lincolnshire. A young boy from Jamaica, who left his Caribbean home in 1944 to assist the ‘Mother Country’, was welcomed to the UK with open arms after being encouraged to help the war effort. But as the times have changed, many views have also Continue Reading
Ralph Ottey: The desire to join.
In 1942, 19-year-old Ralph Ottey came from the Caribbean to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) and became part of the World War 2 Dam Busters. What inspired him to get on that ship to fight for Britain? Ralph was raised by his grandparents in Little London (Jamaica). He was Continue Reading
Wonka: Hit or miss?
Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming Wonka film starring Timothee Chalamet. Wonka is an upcoming musical fantasy film that is set to hit the cinemas on December 8th. The film tells the origin story of Willy Wonka, the main character in Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel, Charlie and Continue Reading
Beloved Vintage Event Cancelled: 1940s Festival
Money issues cause the beloved 1940s weekend in Woodhall Spa to be cancelled indefinitely. Since 2012 Woodhall Spa celebrated wartime history with a weekend in July which brought together a whole community of vintage lovers. The event was beloved beyond Lincolnshire and treasured within the Woodhall Spa community. We spoke Continue Reading
Home & Away: Imps Plunder The Pilgrims
Hello, and welcome to ‘Home and Away,’ a series of features where I present to you a new experience of football. I am Ryan a student at Carre’s Grammar School in Sleaford – as well as a life-long Lincoln City fan. Today’s feature will be a lot shorter because I Continue Reading
Asylum taking off at RAF Scampton
The Minister for Immigration, Robert Jenrick MP, has just announced that the previous RAF Base at Scampton, Lincolnshire, will be used to house Asylum seekers (people that come from other countries to claim asylum in the UK). The Scampton base was previously used as a military base to house pilots Continue Reading
Krampn Your Style?
If you go down to the woods today be sure of a big surprise! Sherwood forest was recently invaded by some very unusual, quite terrifying, folklore creatures known as The Krampus. The Krampus folklore, dating back to pre -Christian times, originates from the alpine regions of Europe. The Krampus worked Continue Reading
Strictly’s Sanderson Sings
Hayley Sanderson, a session singer and TV Vocalist for Strictly Come Dancing hosted a ‘Singsation’ for the schools in Sleaford, Lincolnshire at the host school Kesteven & Sleaford High School. Lots of children were given a chance to meet a renown singer. But what happened there that has left them Continue Reading
Christmas Cutback
This year Boston Borough Council has had to make the hard decision to scale back on lights due to shortfalls in budgets. The councillor Ms Abbott has expressed her ‘concerns about the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy costs, says The Lincolnite. In this year a fifth of families have been Continue Reading
