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BOURNE
Lincolnshire England
in
Words and Pictures

WRITTEN, RESEARCHED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

by Rex Needle

Population 15,000 and 6,000 homes (estimated 2012), 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
The changing face of Bourne PHOTOGRAPHED at 4.32 pm ON TUESDAY 8th MAY 2012
Only the skeleton frame remains of the old Rainbow supermarket in Manning Road that has served the community with groceries and other goods for the past quarter of a century. The store opened in 1980 and continued trading until 2010 when the site was sold for development and	the owners moved to the former Budgens premises in the Burghley Arcade under a new name, Co-operative Food. Soon the old building will be gone and the site cleared to make way for a new residential estate of 108 homes ready for another influx of newcomers into the town.
Readers are asked to submit their own pictures to be considered for our Photograph of the Week feature. Read more.

THE BOURNE WEB SITE IS READ AROUND THE WORLD
We have a regular visitor from Medicine Hat, a city in the south-east province of Alberta, Canada.

REX NEEDLE'S DIARY
CONTROVERSIAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE

Skatepark project upsets sports clubs
The shortage of primary school places

THIS EDITION ALSO INCLUDES
Fighting the evils of drink TAKING THE PLEDGE OF TEMPERANCE	The Town Hall clock stops A LOOK AT OUR FAMOUS TIMEPIECE
A Brief History of Bourne A NEW BOOK ABOUT THIS SOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE MARKET TOWN

PEEPS INTO THE PAST
Assorted children flocked to be in this photograph taken outside two corner shops in the Austerby, one of them dealing in fancy goods and the other occupied by the local plumber, paper hanger, glazier, painter and decorator.
Read more about this town from times gone by

BBC Weather for BOURNE

THE BOURNE FORUM
Have your say on any issue of the day
FAMILY HISTORY
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NOTICE BOARD
Send in your event or entry for inclusion

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FOCUS - view all contributions on site
LINKS - add your web site address to our list
PICTURE GALLERY - photographs taken by readers
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

TALES OF BOURNE FROM PAST TIMES
A substantial book about the history of this town running
to 200 pages with 150 photographs both modern and contemporary
BRIEF LIVES OF BOURNE PEOPLE
Fifty biographies of the great and the good

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 2012 edition.

TRADESMEN YOU CAN TRUST
in the Bourne area

Web site conception and original design by Dr Justin Needle
Text & photographs © Rex Needle 1998-2012
Site last updated on 17th May 2012