Spalding street artists create a town wonderwall
| Updated: 14:34, 07 April 2021
A group of street artists have transformed another area of Spalding which was crying out for some much-needed TLC.
With the ownersâ permission, Karl Barfoot, Adam Sadd and Edgars Bokans have created another striking design to be admired in the town on Weston Farm Suppliesâ building which overlooks the River Welland.
The artists, who decorated tunnels off St Thomasâ Road earlier in the year, set to work over the bank holiday weekend, decorating the building, which had been vandalised over the years, creating three works of art which can be seen from West Marsh Road.
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A popular bar and restaurant has won its battle to hold live music and comedy shows.
Mama Lizâs Soulfood Shack, in North Street, Stamford, was granted planning permission on Tuesday to use its basement area, known as the Voodoo Lounge, for live music and comedy.
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Army bomb disposal experts called to Harborough to investigate suspected wartime weapons on the riverbank near Lidl
They quickly establishing that it wasn’t a mortar device – as it turned out to be an old car part dumped by the river
Wednesday, 17th March 2021, 11:05 am
Army bomb disposal experts were called to Market Harborough to investigate a wartime weapons scare late last night (Tuesday).
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists were called in by police amid fears that a mortar artillery weapon had been found on the banks of the River Welland near the Lidl store.
The Army’s bomb disposal unit examined the “item” before quickly establishing that it wasn’t a mortar device – as it turned out to be an old car part dumped by the river.
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At the lush lawn of Stamford Meadows, the River Welland gently meanders below a panoramic key-cut skyline. Honey-coloured houses line cobbled roads along a winding, medieval street plan. The town still echoes with the clatter of horse-drawn carriages; historic Stamford is ideal for filming period dramas, including
Middlemarch and
Pride and Prejudice. ‘It’s a very pleasant place to live,’ says geographer and local business owner Jo Kemp, who created this viewpoint.
In 1967 Stamford became England’s first Conservation Area. Legends claim it was also the site of Britain’s first university, founded in 863 BC by the mythical King Bladud. Apparently, he also used magic powers to create the city of Bath to cure himself of leprosy.