Christmas Party
Horncastle Masonic Lodge Banks St, HorncastleOur annual Christmas party for members is always a fun event. Features a two course festive meal and a quiz
Our annual Christmas party for members is always a fun event. Features a two course festive meal and a quiz
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]