IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Water Lane, GRANTHAM, NG33 4LN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Water Lane, NG33 4LN by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (36 Images Found)
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This mark can be found on the wall of St Nicholas Church, Swayfield.
For more detail see : http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm59570
Image: © Peter Wood
Taken: 19 Jul 2014
0.02 miles
5
St Nicholas' Church and churchyard
A grade II* church with 12th century origins - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360127
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 4 Oct 2019
0.02 miles
6
A story to be told
Just another gravestone, in just another country churchyard. They all tell of a life, but this one seems to be a story waiting to be told.
"In loving memory of Harold Ernest Sharpe
D.C.M. Croix de Guerre
1896-1985
Rest in peace
And his dear wife
Barbara Eleanor
1911-1994
reunited"
Harold is recorded as coming from nearby Little Bytham, and Barbara (nee Bacon) from Swayfield, where they are buried.
OK, we have a young man awarded a French military honour, presumably during the First World War. He would have been 22 years old when the armistice occurred. At that date, Barbara was 7 years old. The very earliest they could have married is 8 years later, when he was 30 - not that far off twice her age. But in fact their marriage is recorded in 1941, in Bourne.
The rest of the story I obviously do not know. But I do know this. This is in no wise unique. Quiet graves in quiet churchyards are filled with stories like this, unexpected heroes in unlikely places; quiet lifelong devotion; good people. The stuff of the English countryside, a continuum over several thousand years.
(Thanks to fellow Geographist Penny Mayes for the birth and marriage records)
Image: © Bob Harvey
Taken: 12 Jul 2020
0.03 miles
9
The sunny side
South side of St.Nicholas' church
Image: © Richard Croft
Taken: 9 Mar 2007
0.03 miles
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St.Nicholas' church, Swayfield
Early English style, but only the tower is genuine 13th century, the rest by F.Goddard 1875-8
Image: © Richard Croft
Taken: 9 Mar 2007
0.03 miles