• 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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