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Drinking In The Past<\/h2>\n\n

Rosemary Collins <\/strong>meets the researcher uncovering the forgotten history of Lincolnshire\u2019s pubs
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Marc at work in Boston<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Last year, Lincolnshire County Council caused a stir by advertising for a researcher to visit the pubs of the Lincolnshire coast as part of a year-long history project funded by Historic England.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cMy mum saw the vacancy advertised in the local press and said, \u2018This sounds like a job that\u2019s just up your street\u2019,\u201d reveals Marc Knighton, who studied art, history and historical architecture at university and worked at an auction house before becoming the project officer for \u2018Inns on the Edge\u2019. \u201cI don\u2019t know whether she was referring to my research and academic abilities, or to my drinking abilities. But I\u2019m hoping that it was the former and not the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

My mum said, \u2018This sounds like a job that\u2019s just up your street\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

However, \u2018Inns on the Edge\u2019 is about much more than having a pint at work. In fact, Marc says his research starts \u201cin a dark room with lots of coffee\u201d.<\/p>\n\n

\u2018Inns on the Edge\u2019 is scrutinising the 50 miles of coastline from Boston to Grimsby. This area covers 53 parishes in total. At the start of the project, researchers estimated that there were about 150 current and former pubs in the area \u2013 they now think that the true figure is closer to 300.<\/p>\n\n

Marc begins by researching the pubs using local and national archives. \u201cIt basically involves getting to grips with old maps and trade directories such as Kelly\u2019s directories, White\u2019s directories and the old Post Office directories, looking at that documentary evidence and putting it into a formula that people can understand. I then chart that onto Ordnance Survey maps, so we can see where the pubs existed previously and where they exist today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The next step is to visit the present-day pubs, talking to landlords and patrons: \u201cWe give them the website address where they can follow the project, and we also give them a \u2018memory book\u2019 \u2013 a notebook to keep at the bar where regulars and other people who go into the pub can record what they know about the place. They can keep those books for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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TELL YOUR STORY<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Share your local history project with us and you could appear in the magazine!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please write to us at the address here or email rosemary.collins@ourmedia.co.uk <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n

One of his recent trips, to The Red Cow Inn in Fishtoft, showed the power of pubs to uncover memories of days gone by. The pub\u2019s owners told him a story they heard from a customer in his 90s, who remembered when the pub used to have a carpenter\u2019s shop at the front.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cOne of the main businesses of a carpenter back then was making coffins. They would stand up the dead to have a drink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The pubs that Marc is researching are all on the coastline, but they\u2019re on the edge in another sense, because many pubs around the UK face the threat of closure following the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u201cThese are heritage assets that are at risk of closing and being lost for good. Once that happens you lose the muchloved memories that were formed there, and all of the uncovered stories and history. So my job is to try to safeguard some of that for future generations.\u201d The results of the project will be shared in an exhibition that will take place later this year at the North Sea Observatory in Chapel St Leonards, which will then go on tour along the coast.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe hope to share the stories and the histories that we\u2019ve been able to document and all of the people that we\u2019ve met along the coast, and showcase some of the pubs\u2019 histories that no one is really aware of,\u201d Marc says.<\/p>\n\n

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GET INVOLVED<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Inns On The Edge w www.letstalk.lincolnshire.gov.uk\/inns-on-the-edge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit the project\u2019s website to read Marc\u2019s blog and share your own memories and stories. You can also upload old and recent photographs of Lincolnshire pubs and their artefacts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n

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