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On 7th and 8th September 2013 Grantham held a Railway Festival of Speed when the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s world speed record was celebrated. The iconic engine had travelled to Grantham railway station from the national Railway Museum at York and was displayed with other engines and the Gresley tea coach on a specially created siding right next to the station. 15,000 visitors came and Grantham Civic Society was involved in the planning of the Festival and organised 50 volunteer stewards into 70 shifts to look after the visitors and the weekend.
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John Wesley rested at the White Lion Inn (later the Blue Lion) on 18th February 1747. He also preached to a large crowd at the back of a house on Watergate on 9th July 1781.
This plaque was placed by the Rotary Club of Grantham to thank NHS and Key Workers who worked during the recent pandemic.
Angel and Royal plaque The Angel Inn was a 15th century gatehouse inn. King Richard III received the Great Seal here in 1483. The inn was renamed The Angel and Royal in 1866. The plaque was unveiled in June 2022.
Manuel Immanuel was thought to have been born around 1758. He may have been the son of a painter and illustrator of manuscripts of the same name in London. He was an immensely talented artist, and also designed scenery and interior designs of theatres. He used transparencies and lamps to illustrate his work, often illustrating full size animals such as elephants. In 1805 The New Street Theatre on Red Lion Street in Boston was built to house Robertson’s Touring Company. When it was completed in January 1806, it could accommodate 1,079 people. It was reported that the interior decorations from ‘the Masterly pencil of Mr Immanuel, evince a taste and genius, which add to the reputation he already acquired as an artist’. Whilst in Boston he joined the local Lodge of Freemasons. In 1809, there were many celebrations to commemorate King George III, who had acceded to the throne nearly fifty years before. At St Ives in Cambridgeshire, Mr Immanuel, who was at that time living in Bedford, painted a large transparency and was given huge acclaim for his work. At was noted that he had recently produced a similar piece in Huntingdon.
