"Churchyard cross shaft. Medieval. Gritstone. Square section shaft approximately 2 metres high, the upper section of which has been remarkably weathered and worn by blade-sharpening"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241763 

DB 15 July 2018

"Cross, C15, C20 limestone. Plinth of 3 steps, high octagonal base with broaches, part of shaft C15, remainder C20.

C15 octagonal knop with C20 cross above"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062904 

Railings around base are a modern replacement for those removed during the second world war. 

Allington is a "doubly thankful" village and needs no war memorial.

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

Halloween decorations just visible background right.

DB 3 November 2018

"Cross base and part of shaft; C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062423 

Unfortunately showing signs of recent damage. 

DB 9 July 2018

"Probably originally a wayside cross, but not in original position.

According to local tradition, this and the nearby cross base to the west (qv) were brought from Thornholm Priory 2 miles to the south"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310071 

There is a second cross base hidden in the long grass behind.

Risby Road leading off into the distance. 

DB 14 May 2019 

Ornamental brick walls are a community arts project.

Carved in 2002 & 2003 by a class from Bassingham School.

Peter Moss credited as the artist. 

DB 20 April 2018

"The churchyard cross at Beckingham is a good example of the integral base, shaft and knop of a medieval standing cross.

Situated to the south of the church, it is believed to stand in or near its original position"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009216 

DB 8 October 2018

Anthony Salvin 1838 for First Earl Brownlow of Belton House.

DB 26 June 2018

Standing near the old town hall known as the Buttercross.

"PRESENTED BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRIGG TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL IN 2005"

Pitting corrosion evident. 

Bandstand visible in the background. 

DB 16 December 2018

The foundation stone of Pelham's Pillar was laid in 1840. The structure was completed in 1849.

It was built to commemorate the planting of 12.5 million trees by Charles Anderson Pelham, 1st Lord Yarborough.

The total cost was £2,395. Edward James Willson was paid 100 guineas for the design.

Mark Acton, 2017

W.D. Keyworth was paid £145 for carving the two lions which guard the entrance to Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

Evidently fear of vandalism is nothing new as shown by this notice inside the entrance to Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

A view from the top of Pelham's Pillar.

Mark Acton, 2017

"The market cross was erected in Market Place during the 14th century and is believed to stand in or near its original location"

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=8056&p=0 

Pevsner suggests the shaft of the cross dates from the 18th century, but the base is medieval. 

DB 15 April 2018

"Cross. c.1840"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360344 

DB 1 April 2019

The Market Cross stands in the Market Place in front of the Mechanics Institute building, part of which is seen here in the extreme right foreground.

John Wesley preached from this spot on more than one occasion. (Presumably it is a Methodist minister who is posing in this photo.

postcard published by Barnes & Breeze of Epworth, 1920s

"Market cross. Medieval origins, reset in 1806 ... Pedestal bears small C20 plaque recording that John Wesley "preached from these steps on many occasions""

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1068802 

DB 9 August 2019

"The Pilgrim Fathers Memorial is located on the north bank of The Haven at the site of the former Scotia Creek, Fishtoft, seaward of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, and consists of a small granite obelisk mounted on a granite block.

It commemorates the attempt at finding religious freedom in September, 1607 by the Scrooby Congregation, a group of English Separatist Protestants who left for Holland.

They were precursors of the Pilgrims who later crossed the Atlantic to New England"

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

DB 6 March 2020

"Near this place in September 1607 those later known as the Pilgrim Fathers were thwarted in their first attempt to sail to find religious freedom across the seas.

Memorial re-worded by the generous gift of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and The First Congregational Church of Wauwatosa, WI USA - 2009"

DB 6 March 2020

Medieval standing cross with a stepped base. Situated on the village green near The Hare and Hounds public house.

Historic England listing states :-

"The shaft and cross-head were added to the medieval steps and socket-stone in the later 19th century to a design by Edward Trollope"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009223  

DB 21 March 2018

"Gelston village cross is a good example of the stepped base of a medieval standing cross.

Situated on the village green, it is believed to stand in or near its original position"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009217 

DB 23 July 2018 

"Statue of Hon Frederick James Tollemache, M.P. 1892.

By George Simonds of London.

10 feet 10 inches high.

Cost £1,700, bronze.

Tollemache (1826/74), was M.P. for Grantham, and member of Dysart family.

Situated at South end of St. Peter's Hill"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360283

DB 2 July 2018

Detail showing the inscription.

DB 29 October 2019

"Isaac's Apple" centerpiece of the Sensory Garden by Nigel Sardeson 2010.

http://www.artparks.co.uk/sculptors_sculptures.php?artistID=996&sculptor=nigel_sardeson 

DB 4 December 2018 

Grimsby Albert Gardens & Prince Consort Memorial commemorate Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, who died in 1861. It is in the East Marsh area of the town close to the docks.

The memorial was unveiled in 1879 and moved to the Dock Offices at the dock entrance in c.1980.

'Jay Em Jay' Series postcard, posted 1904

The Cenotaph commemorating the fallen of Grimsby in the First World War was unveiled on 18 December 1921.

The work of Messrs William Fitzpatrick Ltd of Trafford Park, Manchester, the cenotaph of white Sicilian marble sits on Norwegian granite steps. It is modelled on Lutyens's cenotaph in Whitehall.

It cost £2500 - raised by public subscription - and was unveiled on 18 December 1921.

Undated postcard

Millennium Sculpture located on the village green. 

DB 7 February 2018 

"Village Cross. C14 and early C19"

https://https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236812 

DB 26 September 2018

The fountain is center image and jets of water should be rising from top of the structure - unfortunately not working.

Local signage states :-

"The Lake is a key feature of The Arboretum.

The designer Edward Milner intended it to be both an ornamental and practical feature as it was designed to collect water from the many springs on the site.

The Fountain was erected in 1911, 39 years after ,the opening of The Arboretum, to celebrate the inauguration of Lincoln's new water supply from Elksley Water Works.

The introduction of the new water supply was greeted with great celebration and the fountain is composed of cores taken from the bore hole at Elksley" 

DB 1 August 2019

"Statue of lion. 1872. By Austin & Seeley. Presented by FJ Clarke"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388691

Francis Jonathan Clarke (1841-1888) was a successful Lincoln High Street chemist, and Mayor of Lincoln 3 times, 1878-9, 1883-4, 1884-5.

Famous for Clarke's Blood Mixture.

http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/the-arboretum.html

All Saints Church, Monks Road just visible in the background, in the gap between the trees.

DB 1 August 2019

"This is one of 1000 mileposts funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network"

A Millennium project beside the Linwood Road B1202.

DB 22 March 2020

"Cross base. C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1165462 

DB 11 November 2019

"THE MILLENIUM STONE. THIS ANCHOR WAS DREDGED FROM THE RIVER TRENT NEAR TO THE PORT OF MARTON. PRESENTED BY MARTON AND GATE BURTON PARISH COUNCIL 2003 A.D."

St Margaret's Church visible in the background. 

DB 6 August 2019

"Market cross. C14.Stone. Octagonal stepped base topped with much weathered octagonal shaft."

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1317180 

DB 22 April 2019

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"An ancient Cross, which stood in the village, was replaced by a new one in 1835, at the cost of about £25, and a market is now held round it on Saturday evenings"

"THE KYME STONE / ERECTED BY / THE VILLAGERS OF / NORTH KYME / THE YEAR 2000"

DB 25 January 2020 

"Market Cross. C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061748 

DB 25 June 2020

"Cross. C14"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241286 

DB 31 August 2020

"Village Cross. C14. Ashlar. Triple stepped square base supports remnant of lower shaft of cross"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1359364 

DB 19 March 2020

Unveiled 3 November 2018.

"The artwork by sculptor Ray Lonsdale depicts a man and a woman returning home with a bicycle after a shift in the town's steelworks during the 1940s.

Volunteers in North Lincolnshire spent seven years raising £48,00 towards the cost of constructing the two life-sized figures on top of a plinth.

It was unveiled on the High Street by the town's Labour MP Nik Dakin.

The project's manager, Adrian Holmes, said the statue was a monument to the "town's steelworks heritage".

"The sculpture is all about everyday people that have worked on the steelworks over the years, right through to the present day and into the future," he said"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-46083095 

Made from Corten weathering steel. 

DB 19 February 2019 

A monument to Princess Gwenllian of Wales located near the site of the former Gilbertine Priory at Sempringham - National Grid Reference TF108326.

"Gwenllian of Wales or Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn (June 1282 - 7 June 1337) was the only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales ... 

A few months after Gwenllian's birth, north Wales was encircled by the English army of King Edward I.

On 11 December 1282 her father, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, was killed in battle ...

Gwenllian's uncle, Dafydd ap Gruffudd, assumed her guardianship, but on 21 June 1283, he was captured with his family at Nanhysglain, a secret hiding place in a bog by Bera Mawr in the uplands of north Wales ...

Gwenllian and the daughters of her uncle Dafydd ap Gruffudd were all confined for life in remote priories in Lincolnshire and never allowed freedom.

Gwenllian was placed in the Gilbertine Priory at Sempringham, where she remained until her death 54 years later"

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

DB 2 June 2020

The most famous seafront feature of Skegness is the 56-feet Clock Tower, which stands at the junction of Lumley Road with Grand Parade.

It was erected in 1898-99 by public subscription (£550) to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The architect was Edmund Winter of Liverpool and it was built by W H Parker of Boston.

Postcard, undated

Local signage states :-

"On 13th February 1908, the Great Northern Railway Company commissioned a painting from the artist John Hassall, to promote Skegness.

They paid £12 for the picture of a smiling, pipe-smoking fisherman bounding along a sandy beach and the slogan "Skegness is SO bracing" was added.

It was used as a poster to advertise trips from Kings Cross Station in London to Skegness for three shillings (15p).

The first trip was on Good Friday 1908, the trips were so successful the campaign ran for 5 years.

The Jolly Fisherman became John Hassall's most famous work and you'll still see "Jolly" -as he is affectionately known -illustrated in many places in Skegness" 

This statue was originally unveiled 10th May 1989 but was resited in 1996 as part of the Foreshore Regeneration Scheme.

DB 30 October 2019

Jolly Fisherman depicted walking towards the station exit, carrying a bucket and spade and trailing a suitcase on wheels behind him.

The statue by Siobhan Coppinger was unveiled in 2010. 

DB 30 October 2019

"This is one of 1000 mileposts funded by The Royal Bank of Scotland to mark the creation of the National Cycle Network"

A Millennium project on the line of the old railway, just off Lincoln Road, near Grid Reference SK927716.

DB 2020

Remains of C14 Village Cross.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168326 

Located on The Green next to the church. 

DB 17 May 2018

Henry Handley (1797-1846) was born in Sleaford and as in later life occupied Culverthorpe Hall.

He sat as MP (for a Wiltshire constituency) for nine years and was an entrepreneur with particular interest in steam power and agricultural improvements.

After his death a public subscription raised £942 towards this fine monument completed in 1852 on Southgate.

The architect was William Boyle of Birmingham.

An associated plaque states :-

"One of the great love stories of the medieval age, the love of Edward I for his wife Eleanor of Castile, is commemorated in the sculpture, the soaring spire to your right.

They were married for 36 years and were inseparable; the Queen even went with her husband on the Crusades.

When Eleanor died in I290 of a 'slow fever', at Harby near Lincoln, Edward resolved to honour her memory.

He built a monument at the cross roads in each of the towns where the Queen's body rested overnight on the way to burial in Westminster Abbey, in the hope that pilgrims and those passing by would pray for her soul.

There were originally twelve monuments, at Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Hardingstone, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St. Albans, Waltham, Cheapside and Charing Cross, but only the three at Northampton, Geddington and Waltham have survived.

All that remains of our Eleanor Cross is a small fragment of a rose carved in stone which is now displayed in Stamford Museum.

This symbol of a remarkable love has inspired the sculpture by Wolfgang Buttress which celebrates Stamford's place in Eleanor's story.

Pupils of Queen Eleanor Technology College have written short haiku poems, elegant 17 syllable phrases, which have been carved into the bronze studs surrounding the sculpture" 

DB 3 July 2019 

Obelisk standing in Stoke Rochford park north west of the Hall.

"Obelisk. 1847. Probably by William Burn"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062294 

Built by Charles Turnor in honour of Sir Isaac Newton. 

DB 17 May 2018

C15 Market Cross. 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1287778

Labelled as "Butter Cross" on 25" Ordnance Survey map published 1889.

DB 5 April 2018

Located on the village green. An associated plaque states:-

"Unveiled by Councillor H.Barrak M.B.E. To Celebrate the Millennium"

DB 5 April 2018

C14 cross base on the south side of Saint Andrew's church. 

DB 1 April 2018

"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"

DB 22 June 2019 

Remains of medieval village cross on the east side of Cliff Road. It is a scheduled ancient monument :-

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1009214 

DB 29 May 2018

"Cross. C15 ... Shaft and octagonal knop intact"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253496 

DB 13 July 2020

"Cross base. C15"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1253450 

DB 13 July 2020

This memorial was unveiled on 17 September 2016. It was designed and built by farmer Mr Henry Smith beside the course of the former Louth to Bardney railway line.

The memorial commemorates two Polish airmen who died after a collision between two returning Mosquitos.

One plane made it to Sturgate near Gainsborough and managed to land, both men surviving. However the other plane crashed in the field behind the memorial and both men aboard were killed.

They are buried in the Polish cemetery at Newark.

http://aircrewremembered.com/madej-stanislaw.html

Jean Howard, January 1980

In Honour and Memory of the crew of 307 Squadron Polish Air Force Mosquito Plane Crash returning from Operation Market Garden Arnhem, Netherlands World War II - 18.9.1944

Pilot Fl/Lt Stanislaw Roman Madej Aged 27 years

Navigator F/O Jozef Stanislaw Gasecki Aged 25 years

Let the sky and God be their Limit and Eternity their measurement

This exhortation is adapted from a quotation of Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political activist and orator. 

The memorial's two panels were cut by Leake's stonemasons in Louth.

The insignia is the squadron badge of 307 Squadron which was made up of Polish airmen, and the squadron nickname was the Eagle Owls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._307_Polish_Night_Fighter_Squadron

Jean Howard, January 1980

Erected in 1844 by Col. Richard Elmhurst. Granite obelisk surmounted by bust of the Duke of Wellington.

An inscribed panel on the base records that the adjacent Waterloo Wood was planted "from Acorns Sown Immediately After the Memorable Battle of Waterloo".

Located off Monument Road at Grid Reference TF199652.

DB 19 March 2020

Erected in 1844 by Col. Richard Elmhurst. Granite obelisk surmounted by bust of the Duke of Wellington.

An inscribed panel on the base records that the adjacent Waterloo Wood was planted "from Acorns Sown Immediately After the Memorable Battle of Waterloo".

DB 28 December 2017 

Local signage states :-

"James Sutton was commissioned by the Boston Woods Trust and Transported to create a sculpture to commemorate Sir Joseph Banks.

These sculptures are his interpretation of botanical drawings of Hakea seeds which were discovered during an expedition to Australia.

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was a famous botanist explorer and patron of the sciences with links to this area. He spent his young childhood enjoying the freedom of Revesby Abbey estate, which he inherited aged 21. He developed a lifelong wonder of nature and went on a number of expeditions, the most famous being with Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour. 

He was granted the Freedom of the Borough of Boston in 1771 and became Recorder of Boston in 1808. 

His many achievements included Scientific advisor to Kew Gardens, President of the Royal Society, presiding at the foundation of the Royal Horticultural Society and he was a prime mover in drainage of the Fens"

DB 21 September 2020