Many visitors ask how it is that such a large church is to be found in such a small village. Though Stow may have been rather larger than it is now, it was always a rural place. Yet it was also the centre of a large block of estates, belonging to the Saxon bishops of Dorchester on Thames. So, it was here that Bishop Aelfnoth, in about 975, built a church to serve, it seems, as head Minster (or mother…

Music, Words & Songs from Restoration England performed by Passamezzo The Kirton in Lindsey Society and KLEO announce a welcome return for Passamezzo who, this time, are going to delight us with words, music and songs from Restoration England. The programme  includes ballads about horseracing, songs from the theatre, tavern rounds, dance music, divisions and solos for the violin, viol and cittern; and music by Wilson, Lawes, Locke and Purcell, and Playford. The restoration of Charles II to the throne in…

Physician, amateur photographer, antiquarian and general polymath, Martin Hollingsworth tells the story of Dr C F George who died 100 years ago in November 1923. He left us with an amazing legacy of photographs taken in the late 19th/early 20th century giving us a permanent glimpse of our town in another era.