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  • Christmas Party

    Horncastle Masonic Lodge Banks St, Horncastle

    Our annual Christmas party for members is always a fun event.  Features a two course festive meal and a quiz

  • The Railway that Horncastle built

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    A  talk to coincide with our new book about the Horncastle branch railway, to be published in February.  We hope to have the book on sale for this event. Tim Leffler, the chairman of the Great Northern Railway Society, will talk about how the GNR in Lincolnshire came about.  We will also have a short […]

  • Archives Open Day

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    Come along to our annual archives open day to find out more about the history of your town.  Our experts will be on hand with original artefacts and will be happy to answer your questions and show you some of our archive material.  It's always a popular day and we will be very pleased to […]

    Free

  • Ran-tanning and Riding the Stang

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    Public disapproval used to take a very visible and audible form: "ran - tanning" or "riding the stang" consisted of a crowd gathering outside someone's house, banging pots and pans and making as much noise as they could.  The custom has now largely died out, at least in physical form.  Historian Andrew Walker describes what […]

    £2.00

  • Torrington’s Tour of Lincolnshire, 1791

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    John Byng was a sometimes irascible diarist who documented his travels on horseback throughout Great Britain between 1781 and 1794.  His journeys across Lincolnshire include several testy and irritable descriptions of our local towns, villages and people, but also some endearing recollections of life in this country over 200 years ago. He later succeeded to […]

    £2.00

  • W K Morton, Media Baron of Horncastle

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    William Kirkham Morton was a printer and stationer in Horncastle who went on to found the Horncastle News.  The first edition of our local nespaper was printed in 1885. Robert Bell presents this fascinating account of Horncastle's very own media baron. Entry is £2 for members and £5 for non members.

    £2

  • Society AGM

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

  • Marwood’s Long Drop

    Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

    From cobbler to state executioner: hear the extraordinary story of how a local man offered his services to the national justice system in Victorian Britain and Ireland.  Convinced that his "long drop" system of execution offered a far more humane method of executing prisoners convicted of capital offences, William Marwood became famous across the country.  […]

    £2.00