The Old Town Hall

11/06/2026

We are really happy to be working with Willoughby Academy and looking forward to this amazing exhibition as part of Heritage Open Days.

Our project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are grateful to players for making this possible.

This term in Art, every pupil at Willoughby will be contributing to an exciting creative project... our first public art exhibition in partnership with The Old Town Hall POP UP!

Willoughby’s exhibition will feature an immersive multi sensory artwork celebrating local heritage and the incredible creativity of our young people. Visitors will also be able to enjoy a variety of individual pieces created by different classes across the school.

The exhibition forms part of Heritage Open Days 2026 and is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Exhibition Details:
*Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September 2026
*11am–3pm
*Darby & Joan Hall, South Street, Bourne, PE10 9LY
*Free entry & refreshments available

We are incredibly proud of our pupils and look forward to sharing their work with families, friends, and the wider Bourne community!

11/06/2026

Thanks to Grimsthorpe Castle for inviting our Town Hall Histories volunteers and Community Play script writers to the talk today by History with Amy.
It was fascinating and a great background setting to digest for our research and play, both part of the Activity Plan within our project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

🏰 Lecture: The Theatre of the Feast - Power and Excess in the Georgian Dining Room with Dr Amy Boyington ( also known as )

As part of the Vanbrugh300 Free Lecture Series, visitors can step back into the 1700s and into the most important room in Britain: the country house dining room. In this engaging talk, Dr. Amy Boyington pulls back the velvet curtains on the ‘theatre of the feast’ to reveal how the Georgian elite used architecture, art, and an almost religious devotion to excess to cement their social standing.

📆Thursday 11th June | 2:30pm

🎟️ How to book: buy an admission ticket for Thursday 11th June, then reserve a free ticket for this talk from the Vanbrugh300 page on our website. Season Tickets and Historic Houses passes ARE valid for this talk.

For more information, follow the link in our bio and on our story.

Tickets are first come - first served, so be quick to secure a spot!

04/06/2026

Tim Stubbs will be back next month to entertain us once again with his stories, but also to make a marvellous Afternoon Tea! ☕️🫖🍰
Don’t miss this chance, tickets are now on sale from our website https://bournetownhall.org.uk/events.
All proceeds go towards the Old Town Hall regeneration project.

03/06/2026

It’s Volunteers' Week and to show our appreciation for our wonderful volunteers, we asked them over for drinks and nibbles.
We’re incredibly grateful to Ricky Locke who gave us an hour of his time to amaze us all with magic - we’re still trying to figure out how he did it!

29/05/2026

🔔 Updates from our project can be found in the News section of our website - the latest post is about the original bell being removed!

Our project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we’re grateful to
players for making it all possible.

Hopefully you know the story about our clocktower already? If you don't, here's a quick summary: fire broke out in the clocktower of Bourne Town Hall in February 1932. Luckily the fire brigade were housed in the building at the time and they quickly dowsed the fire and saved the building. However th...

27/05/2026

So many reasons to donate…
🤍… in memory of a loved one
🎈… in celebration of a life event maybe a birth, a wedding, an engagement, moving house
⏳…to drop a pin in time for a significant birthday or anniversary
🎓…to celebrate a graduation

Sponsor A Tile and we’ll record your requested dedication and name on our webpage.

That’s where you come in – by sponsoring a roof tile you’ll play a direct role in preserving this special place for future generations.

24/05/2026

Amos Gilbert, a farm labourer from Bourne, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by his brother-in-law. Discover his story here: https://bbc.in/3PWaF1G

22/05/2026

Another of our volunteer researchers, Diz Lamb, has been featured in an episode of the BBC Secret Lincolnshire podcast.
As part of the Town Hall Histories project, Diz looked into the story of Dr John Willis, one of the subscribers to Bourne Town Hall in 1821.
Our subscriber’s father was Dr Francis Willis, said to have cured the madness of King George III.

Our project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are grateful to players for making this possible.

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