Category: Events

Sponsored Ride in Grimsthorpe Park 2011

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Bank Holiday Monday (2 May 2011) sees the annual ‘Sponsored Ride’ taking place in theBythams area.  If you ride, the event, in its 9th year since it changed from being the ‘Hunter Trials’, is one not to miss.  The organisers have laid out 8, 12 and 15 mile courses in beautiful Grimsthorpe Park (all off public roads) and offer tea and cake, as well as toilets, at the mid-point!  In previous years partipants have remarked how enjoyable the event is and leave with a promise to return next year which over 200 did in 2009. Proceeds from the event go towards the maintenance of the churches in Careby, Creeton, Castle Bytham and Little Bytham and this years chosen ‘external’ charity – Kesteven Rideability based at Hough-on-the-Hill, near grantham, a Riding for the Disabled member.  If you’d like to take part it not too late to enter, contact Rosemary Player on 01778 590350. For further information see … www.bccride.com

Local Band “The Uninvited Guests” at The Castle

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Local band, “The Uninvited Guests”, will be playing at The Castle, in Castle Bytham, tonight (Sunday 1 May 2011) from 8.30pm.  Meals will still be available from 6.00 to 9.00pm, if you’re feeling hungry, and space has been cleared for ‘anyone to have a wee boogie if you find your feet are tapping to the beat’.

Music in Quiet Places 2011

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Simon ThackerMusic in Quiet Places is a series of performances, which have taken place on summer evenings in south west Lincolnshire for the last 22 years.  The venues and performances change every year, the last performance in theBythams area taking place during Music in Quiet Places 2010 when “The Lincs Effect” performed in St James Church in Castle Bytham.

Simon Thacker‘s technical virtuosity and emotionally charged interpretations have established him as one of Britain’s most exciting classical performers and on Thursday 28 July at 7.30pm he will be performing in St Andrew’s Church in Witham-on-the-Hill.

Tickets priced at £12 (£11, £7 Under 26’s), are available from Stamford Arts Centre, 01780 763203 and the Six Bells in Witham-on-the-Hill.

Easter in theBythams

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With the Easter weekend fast approaching it seems a good idea to detail some of the happenings in theBythams area from Good Friday on 22nd April through to Easter Monday on 24th.

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Steam Trains along the East Coast Mainline

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Thanks to help from Chris Holmes, theBythams website now includes information, in its Railways, Trains etc. section, of steam rail tours which pass through Little Bytham on the East Coast Mainline.  Much of the information has been gleaned from the UK Steam Info website, supplemented by information from the websites of the companies organising the tours – primarily Steam Dreams, who manage the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, and The Railway Touring Company.

LNER A4 60019 Bittern passes through Little Bytham

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The A4 locomotive 4464(60019) Bittern passed through Little Bytham this morning on the first day of a nine day Rail Touring Company “Great Britain IV” rail-tour.  The locomotive had been repainted in LNER Garter Blue and renamed Dominion of New Zealand specially for the trip.  In its new livery the locomotive is very much like its legendary A4 class mate the 4468 Mallard. The loco is seen above at Grantham station, photo courtesy of BBC Lincolnshire’s Facebook Page. Details of rail tours across the UK can be found at www.uksteam.info