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BOURNE
Lincolnshire         England
in
 Words and Pictures

WRITTEN, RESEARCHED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

by Rex Needle

Population 15,000 with 5,500 homes  (2008 estimate), 71 listed buildings, town hall, corn exchange, seven churches, town mayor and town council with 15 members returned every four years.

Town sign

 

Photograph of the Week

Photographed by Rex Needle
Flax growing in the South Fen at Bourne
PHOTOGRAPHED AT 11.03 am ON TUESDAY 23rd JUNE 2009
The fen may be flat and sometimes featureless but it never lacks interest and there is much to see in these productive acres that are devoted entirely to agriculture. This is the South Fen at Bourne that has been farmed since the earliest times and controlled by drainage that has been perfected over the past two centuries for the growing of a multitude of crops such as potatoes, sugar beet and cereals which thrive in the rich, black soil. Flax too is becoming fairly frequent although the blue flowers that blossom in early summer are still an unusual sight to some.

Take a look at some of the stunning pictures taken by visitors to this web site in our
PICTURE GALLERY

 

THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS READ AROUND THE WORLD
     A visitor logged on this week from Mitaka, a city located in Tokyo, Japan, on the site of a settlement which can be traced back as far as 1590.


This edition includes

 

REX NEEDLE'S DIARY
 Flats for the elderly stretch medical care CONTROVERSIAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE

 

Tales of Bourne from Past Times
A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THIS TOWN
OTHER NEW ITEMS
Royal honours for our citizens
AWARDS THAT BEGAN 90 YEARS AGO		 Fencing off the Abbey Lawn
SECURITY IS A SAD DAY FOR BOURNE

 

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

Photographed in 1950


Until the railway finally disappeared from the town in 1959, the sound of steam locomotives was a familiar one as they arrived and left the station situated at the Red Hall which has surprisingly withstood a century of vibrations from passing rolling stock.

See more about this town in times gone by

BBC Weather for BOURNE

 

 

CD-ROM

A PORTRAIT OF BOURNE
 The history of this town on CD-ROM from the earliest times to the present day, now revised and greatly extended for the 2009 edition.
  THE BOURNE CHRONICLE
  Dates, events and people in our history

 

  FOCUS  - view all contributions on site
LINKS - add your web site address to our list
PICTURE GALLERY - submit a favourite photograph

PROMINENT PEOPLE - 500 names from past and present
PUBLICATIONS - relating to this town
READERS - remember past times
VISITOR COUNTRIES -  tell us where you are located

 

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   Number of visitors during May  =  7, 249   Overall ►

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