• Home
  • News
  • Bereavements
  • What’s On
  • Hall of Fame
  • Grantham Past
    • Grantham Past Archives
  • Streetwise
  • Quiz Time
  • Log In

Grantham Matters

Grantham's local community news and history website

Grantham Remembers: a wartime evening of history and singalong at St John’s

August 29, 2026 Leave a Comment

REMEMBERING GRANTHAM DURING WW2 – 18th September – TALK & CONCERT WITH SINGALONG

During WW2 Grantham’s civilians and military personnel played a vital role and our town paid a heavy price. Grantham Remembers is organising an event to commemorate that period and to provide an opportunity to relive that wartime spirit which saw people through.

Please find attached a flyer with the details of our ‘Grantham Remembers WWII – Talk and Concert with Singalong‘ taking place on Friday 18th September from 6pm at St John;s Church, Station Road East, Grantham. 

Refreshments and a Licensed bar will be available. Proceeds to St John’s Church fund.

Any proceeds from raffle ticket sales and flags to St John’s Church and the Royal British Legion.


The event is part of Heritage Week and in partnership with St John’s Church and we are delighted to be supported by Lincolnshire Fire Aid – vintage engines and our other participants with details outlined below:-

Doors open: 5:45pm

6pm – Grantham in WW2 Talk by Dr John Manterfield – Author and local historian

7pm – INTERVAL and Exhibition

7:30PM – Concert with Singalong with Helen Winter soloist and musical director, and, St John’s Winter Singers – and Yourselves!

Period costumes are welcome to be worn too! Guests are free to make their own or Cinderella’s on London Road has a range of costumes for hire.

We wish as many people as possible to be able to join us – Admission is FREE with tickets bookable in advance from the Grantham Guildhall Arts Centre Box Office or online:-

https://www.guildhallartscentre.com/whats-on/all-shows/grantham-remembers-ww2-talk-concert-and-sing-along

Filed Under: News, What's On, Z3

Recent Posts

New Grantham centre opens more doors for adults ready to build skills and careers

Bright new look for leisure centre changing rooms

CCTV switch-on planned for University Square as flytipping bill tops £7,000

Planning Applications 31 August – 4 September 2026

Do you wish to stand for election to SKDC? Full details of what to do and when

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

gm-small

The top Grantham media site for:

Grantham and local news
Old pictures 
What’s happening
Or a good old moan about Grantham issues

To contact us: 
GranthamMatters@gmail.com

Privacy Policy
Contact Us
Advertise With Us

Copyright © 2026 · Grantham Matters Media · Website by Primrose & Bee | Grantham

Manage Cookie Consent
We use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. We do this to improve browsing experience and to show personalised ads. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}