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St. Peters Hill, GRANTHAM, NG31 6QG

View northward on St Peters Hill and High Street (B1174) and on the right beyond statue of Sir Isaac Newton is the Town Hall: as it all was 60 years ago.

A very French feel to the style, 1867-9 by an unknown architect, now the Guildhall Arts Centre

Grantham's most famous son by William Theed the Younger in 1859

Grantham's most famous daughter http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/327245 - a caricature used in the 'Spitting Image' TV series, now a prized exhibit in Grantham Museum

King Edward and Queen Eleanor remembered in Grantham. The official unveiling of the plaque honouring King Edwards glorious cross to his loving wife took place on Saturday 29th August 2015. The original cross was thought to be nearby the Town Hall, where the plaque has been placed.

We have one of these in Hendon, and I did not discover until a few moments later their HQ is a short way along this road. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7480583

The statue was erected on 15 May 2022, on St Peter's Hill Green, close to the Grantham Museum

The statue of Sir Isaac Newton, cast in bronze in 1858, is Grade II-listed. (English Heritage ID:193010 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-193010-statue-of-sir-isaac-newton-outside-town- British Listed Buildings). Sir Isaac Newton a physicist and mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_revolution . Born at nearby Woolsthorpe Manor on Christmas Day 1642, Newton went to the King Edward VI Grammar School in Grantham in 1655 before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1661. During the Plague Years of 1665-7, Cambridge University was dispersed and Newton returned to Woolsthorpe. Due to his achievements in mathematics, optics and mechanics in this period, 1666 has been called the Annus Mirabilis - his marvellous year. There is strong evidence that some of his optical experiments with prisms were done in the Study at Woolsthorpe, and that the falling apple story http://www.isaacnewton.org.uk/essays/Apple , which led him to formulate his theory of gravitation, took place in the orchard at Woolsthorpe. For more about this incredible man, see http://www.isaacnewton.org.uk/ (isaacnewton.org, the virtual museum of Sir Isaac Newton and the history of science) also the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton .

Erected 1858, designed by William Theed, bronze on Portland Stone plinth. Listed Grade II. The building to the right, behind the statue, is the local Museum, which inevitably has a display relating to the great scientist. Opened in 1926 as a municipal museum, it is now run by a volunteer group, Grantham Community Heritage Association.