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Interesting Lincolnshire facts and information
- Controversial but the most famous apple is history is not an American technology company, but one from Lincolnshire. Arguably the most influential scientist of all time, Sir Isaac Newton, was born in Woolsthorpe in Lincolnshire and educated at The King’s School in Grantham also in Lincolnshire. Woolsthorpe Manor was Newton’s home, (now owned by the National Trust) and an apple tree in its garden helped form his world changing theory of universal gravitation. Supposedly an apple falling to the ground made Newton wonder, why they fell towards the Earth. How come they didn’t fly upwards or sideways. From these apples he was able to develop Newtons Law of Gravitation. “any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them”
- In 1967, only two months after the Civic Amenities Act was passed Stamford was designated as a town of special interest. It’s been over 50 years since architectural conservation areas started popping up around Britain, and the first was Stamford in Lincolnshire. Over half of the listed buildings in Lincolnshire, are located within Stamford which has a staggering 600. England’s most attractive town’ was how the much-loved poet laureate, John Betjemen, described Stamford.
- In 1979, the first barcode in Britain was scanned. And, it just happened to be on a packet of teabags in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. We no longer pay any attention to barcodes but back in 1979 this must have seemed like rocket science and black ( and white) magic. Now barcodes are everywhere helping us identify a tin of beans, but also on tickets, patients wristbands in a hospital. Barcodes are now everywhere and the tech revolution started in Lincolnshire
- The ‘Dambusters’ Royal Airforce Squadron No. 617 was formed under a veil of secrecy at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire during World War 2 in 1943. Their pivotal mission involved using ‘bouncing’ bombs to burst dams that supplied power and water to the Ruhr industrial region of Germany. Lincolnshire had more airfields than any other county during World War Two. It was known as Bomber County and pilots returning from raids over Germany used Lincoln Cathedral as a landmark to guide them home
- Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Cream all played at a rock festival in Spalding in 1967
- Lincolnshire is the UK’s 2nd largest county by area and boasts a diverse landscape of sandy beaches ( fifty miles of coastline many of which carry the blue flag), lush woodland, rolling fields ( the Lincolnshire Wolds have been designated an are of natural beauty) and bustling communities
- From a marketing and branding perspective Skegness has a famous mascot, the ‘Jolly Fisherman‘, whom features on postcards with the slogan “Skegness is so bracing