Can you name this darts team & the players, from left, A, B, C, E, E, & F – Plus the chap at the back?
Do you remember this shop from 35 years ago?
Where was this toy shop?
Wharf Road 35 years ago
Scott, Malcolm – Was editor of Grantham Journal
Malcolm Scott (1935-2018) The son of a Methodist minister, Malcolm Scott, began his distinguished career as a ‘cub’ reporter at the Lincolnshire Free Press and Spalding Guardian in the 1950s. Malcolm was a reporter in Spalding from 1954 until 1965 (broken by national service and a year in a sales job) and news editor/deputy editor […]
Wood, John – Chemist who discovered his voice
John Wood (1934-2018) John Wood was born in London but his family moved to Grantham when he was three. He was a pupil at the King’s School. After qualifying at University of London with a chemistry degree , Mr Wood joined British (originally Bellrock) Gypsum at Staunton-in-the-Vale, near Long Bennington, in the laboratory, becoming chief […]
Knapp, Malcolm G – The history man
Malcolm G Knapp (1932-2018) Malcolm Gerald Knapp, was considered the leading expert about Grantham and its history, of his day Mr Knapp published a number of books about the town, firstly in collaboration with Michael Pointer, before going solo. Grantham-born, he went to Brownlow School, then King’s School. He did his National Service […]