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Living History
The English Civil War era was re-enacted by the Living History group, Sealed Knot at Skegness Church Farm Heritage Museum recently.
The two-day event included an authentic battle and children’s toys, as well as displays of traditional crafts such as lace-making, woodwork, braiding and spinning wool.
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Can YOU guess these mystery objects?
Friends of the Skegness Church Farm Museum hosted a History Quiz night this evening at the Imperial Cafe North Parade Skegness.
Senior and junior teams of four or less pitted their wits against each other in a quiz that tested their memories about a slide show of happenings and places.
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The Avro Lancaster Bomber NX611 ‘Just Jane’, often treats spectators to a taxi run at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum at East Kirkby near Spilsby.
The pilot of the Lancaster on this occasion was ‘Jacko’ Jackson from Blackpool.
He is pictured below in the cockpit preparing for ‘takeoff’.
The pilot fires up the Merlin engines one by one.
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Recovered Wreckage of World War 2 Aircraft at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum East Kirkby near Skegness

The museum exhibits pieces of aircraft wreckage found in an around Lincolnshire.
This photograph is of a part of the whole cockpit which is on display.
An aircraft man once sat there…

The video records the various pieces.
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World War 2 Plane Wreckage
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Victorian Steam Thresher at Church Farm Museum Skegness
Preserving our National Heritage
Grain from corn has many uses including making bread, beer and feeding to animals. But first, the grain has to be extracted from the straw and chaff, This is called ‘threshing’.
Hundreds of years ago, people used to thresh corn by beating by hand. This was [...]