Heritage Centre Update

Calling New Volunteers: Are you interested in a new challenge? The Gainsborough Heritage Centre is a local heritage museum with a fantastic array of exhibits and an extensive archive collection. The Centre requires some new and enthusiastic volunteers to help welcome visitors to the Centre as well as helping our

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The Big Draw – A Day of Creativity at Gainsborough Old Hall

As part of the world’s biggest festival of drawing we organised a free day of sketching and guided clay tile making with Shaun Clark, our ceramic artist from Whiskerhills Pottery.  Over 80 people joined in with sketching the flowers and wildlife around the grounds of Gainsborough Old Hall, gathering inspiration

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The reality of trying to turn the tide of decay

The prolonged and worsening situation with regard to the vacancy of shops, poor state of repair of historic buildings and deteriorating appearance of the Gainsborough Town Centre Conservation Area as a whole, is a source of sadness and frustration for many. What is the Council doing about it? The vast

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Gainsborough Joins The Heritage Open Days Festival For Lincolnshire

Gainsborough continues to increase its profile in the world of heritage this September when some of our attractions feature in the Heritage Open Days Festival for Lincolnshire.  This festival takes place from 10th-19th September and has run for decades across the whole of the United Kingdom.  It features on many

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The Big Draw Festival

The Gainsborough Townscape Heritage Initiative have joined with English Heritage to create a one-day festival of drawing at Gainsborough Old Hall in September. Taking place in the grounds of the Old Hall on Saturday 25 September from 11am until 4pm This is a great day out for all the family

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