Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

"Angel, John Maulkinson"

And in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 :-

"Taylor Robert Robinson, Angel Hotel, High street"

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Detail of the inn sign.

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A London style street but built in Wainfleet.

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"Built in 1847 for Bethlem Hospital according to the design of Sydney Smirke, their architect, and named after their benefactor. A number of similar terraces stood in Southwark near Bethlem Hospital"

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On the corner between Barkham Street and High Street

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1224175 

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Batemans was founded in 1874 by George Bateman, a local farmer who sold his farm in nearby Friskney in order to rent a brewery in Wainfleet, situated by the railway ...

In 1880 Bateman had earned enough from the business to buy Salem House, a Georgian building some 200 yards from the original brewery, and a new brewery was built in its coach houses. In addition to the brewing, Bateman bottled spirits, and his wife baked bread for sale ...

By 1910 the company was engaged in the bottling of Guinness and Bass for its estate.

Bateman's son, Harry, went into the business, which he bought from his father in 1919.

The 1920s and 1930s proved to be a very lean time for the industry, partly because of severe restrictions on brewing that had come in during World War I, partly because of higher taxes, and a consequent decrease in sales.

At one point Bateman had to lay off his entire workforce, but their resulting plight made him take them back; in order to find work for them, he expanded the business into building opposite Salem House - including a derelict windmill which was to become the brewery's trademark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Brewery 

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Another view of the windmill used as the brewery's trademark.

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Salem House fronting Station Road.

"In 1880 Bateman had earned enough from the business to buy Salem House, a Georgian building some 200 yards from the original brewery, and a new brewery was built in its coach houses.

(Salem House had been built c.1820 for Thomas Seare Merrifield, attorney.)

In addition to the brewing, Bateman bottled spirits, and his wife baked bread for sale"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Brewery 

"House. c.1825, C20"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1224319

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Entrance into the Retail Department off Mill Lane.

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Fermentation taking place in stainless steel tanks. 

After the wort is cooled yeast is added to it and it begins to ferment.

It is during this stage that sugars won from the malt are converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide, and the product can be called beer for the first time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing 

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Modern mash tun in the "Theatre of Beers" built 2002.

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Mash tun in the Victorian brewhouse.

"Mashing allows the enzymes in the malt to break down the starch in the grain into sugars, typically maltose to create a malty liquid called wort"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashing 

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Hopback in the Victorian Brewhouse. 

"A bed of hops is tipped into vessel (or flavours eg strawberry, coffee beans). Wort soaks through the bed and takes flavours with it" 

Flavoured wort is then cooled ready for fermentation.

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Display of beer pump clips in the Visitors Centre.

The name "Victory Ale" is a reference to the company retaining its independence.

"During the 1980s the company faced a difficult decision: half of the family wanted to sell up and half wanted to continue brewing.

Chairman George Bateman, his wife Pat and their children Stuart and Jaclyn saved up enough money to buy out the family members who wanted to sell, and the company lived on"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Brewery 

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Visitor centre housed in the historic C18 windmill.

A wide range of historic artifacts relating to the brewery's history on display.  

https://www.bateman.co.uk/visitors-centre/ 

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"Cross. C15, C19"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1223766  

Local signage states :-

"The central feature in the Market Place is the medieval Buttercross where John Wesley preached two hundred years ago"

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All Saints' dates from 1821, and replaced an earlier building west of the present town.

The church is built of brick with windows in Perpendicular style. Stone niches and tall pinnacles flank the window at the west end (seen here).

July 2014

A relatively rare view of the church from the south-east. The chancel was lengthened by one bay (and the north aisle added) in 1887.

Peter Kirk Collection, 1993

View of All Saints' church from the south-west - in wintertime

Frank Skelton, 1970s

The western bell-turret with its tiles and ornamental lead roof was added to the church in 1932.

July 2014

The 15th century font in All Saints' church is decorated with traceried panels and emblems of the Passion. Presumably it came from the town's earlier medieval church.

July 2014

Strongly coloured ceilings in the nave and chancel relieve the plain box-like shape of the church.

July 2014

The Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repair of Churches and Chapels was formed in 1818 and incorporated in 1828.

Wainfleet All Saints received a grant at the time of the building of the church in 1821.

July 2015

The finely detailed plinth and niche - less the figure - transferred from the earlier medieval church. It is set in the west wall of the Regency church.

August 2018

The brick clock tower in Wainfleet's Market Place was built in 1899. It is Grade II listed.

Drawing by Tom Brooker, 1970

Hall erected to commemorate the coronation of King George V whose coronation was 22 June 1911.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Town Hall, in the Market place, was opened in 1913, as a memorial of the coronation of King George V and will seat 1,000 persons"

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Dedication stones either side of the main entrance.

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (12 August 1872 - 8 December 1956) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_Louise_of_Schleswig-Holstein 

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A chapel was built by the Primitve Methodists - the second in the town - in Rumbold Street in 1869.

It closed for worship in the 1930s and was used for a while as a cinema.

August 2018

"Wainfleet signal box is a Type 1 box of the Great Northern Railway (GNR), the earliest of which appeared in 1872.

Type 1 boxes were built of brick or timber, the last brick examples dating to the 1890s.

The signal box at Wainfleet, which appears to be substantially unaltered, was built in 1899 and retains its original Railway Signal Co lever frame.

The wheel mechanism for raising the crossing gates, originally located between the lever frame and the entrance to the operations room, has been removed"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1414000 

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"The station has its own signal box at the east end of the platforms, which is next to the level crossing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainfleet_railway_station 

British Rail Class 153 Super Sprinter 153382 arriving from Skegness on its way to Nottingham. 

Coupled with two other units including a British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter 156404 at the rear.

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Listed in White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 :-

"Red Lion, John Jones"

Now closed and lettering across the front which used to read "RED LION - HOTEL - GARAGE" has been removed. 

A former Batemans pub which is now for sale.

"The property comprises a detached former public house of traditional brick construction beneath a pitched roof. The property has a substantial footprint with well-proportioned rooms internally suitable for refurbishment or redevelopment"

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Wainfleet is an ancient port and market town lying five miles south west of Skegness.

The brick and thatch Bridge House dates from about 1700.

undated postcard

Now part of Bateman's Brewery this mill was built in the 1820s.

It had six floors and five sails. Milling ceased in 1922.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

The windmill was bought by Batemans brewery in the early 1920s.

The sails of the mill have been removed.

The ground floor is now a bar open to visitors whilst the floor above is the company board-room. 

Location of mill: TF 495 586

Peter Kirk Collection, 2002

This view of the mill shows its location by the Salem Bridge over the Steeping River in the centre of this small town.

undated postcard

Former Salvation Army Hall. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The salvation Army barracks, erected in 1884, will hold 100 persons"

Located next to the Methodist Church. 

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Wainfleet was the birthplace of William Waynflete, who became Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England in the 15th century.

Wainfleet School was founded in 1484 by Waynflete as a feeder school for his other foundation, Magdalen College Oxford.

This fine red brick building was in continual use as a school until the 1980s; it now houses the local museum and library.

Frank Robinson, 2007

Another view of the fifteenth century shows the diaper work in the lower parts of the octagonal towers and the Tudor chimneys with typical rubbed brick decoration.

The large window in the west elevation facing the road is in the Perpendicular style of the period.

July 2014

Descriptive plaque on the school building.

July 2014

An early twentieth-century view of the building when still in use as a school (before the foundation of Skegness Grammar School, to which pupils later transferred).

undated postcard

"The Woolpack Pub & Kitchen dates back to the 1700s and was originally the home of John Shaw Esquire, a local dignitary"

https://www.woolpackwainfleet.com/about-us/ 

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"Batemans bought The Woolpack Pub & Kitchen in 1990 (at that time named the Woolpack Hotel) from Home Brewery in Nottingham"

https://www.woolpackwainfleet.com/about-us/ 

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It is located at NGR TF 474592 or is it 497577? in Wainfleet All Saints parish.

Barry Barton, 1981 

The chapel on St Johns Street is the third built for the Wesleyan Methodists on this site.

The first was erected in 1804, the second in 1820 and the third, the present one, opened in 1902.

postcard, dated 1915

The chapel in St John's Street opened in July 1902, replacing a chapel of 1820 on the same site.

The original iron railings and part of the boundary wall at the front of the chapel have been removed.

July 2014

The first service held by the Primitive Methodists here was in September 1838.

It is Grade II listed and was still in use in the 1990s.

It is located at NGR TF 470 592 on Mill Lane in Wainfleet All Saints parish.

Barry Barton, 1978

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 states :-

"The Society was formed in 1833 and the chapel opened on the 28.9.1838. The chapel, a Grade II listed building, is still in use with a membership of 6"  

Unfortunately the chapel subsequently closed in 2009.

Geoff Swain Collection 20 May 2001

"South end with semi- circular headed doorway with traceried fanlight and partially glazed door. Plaque above inscribed: "Primitive Methodist Chapel. 1838" ...

Original painted, panelled pews and raised reading desk platform with turned balusters, moulded handrail, lower panelling and central panel reaching up to lectern"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1224402 

Geoff Swain Collection 20 May 2001