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Our aims are To Protect, Promote and Preserve information & artifacts of importance to the Town
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27/10/2026

🖼️ Enjoy a visit to the Heritage Centre, there is lots to see and do!

🔹Jump back in time with a game of hopscotch!
🔹Dress up in Victorian outfits in our 20th century street
🔹Spend a few minutes in our Victorian school room and stitch your very own bookmark
🔹Don't forget our crayon rubbing activities, where you can create your very own drawings using original designs of Marshall traction engines...
🔹Or take on the challenge and spot our heritage hedgehogs with our special trail.

🏛️ You can also explore:
🔹 Industrial displays featuring Marshall’s and Rose Brothers
🔹 Extensive archives for family and local history research
🔹A cosy Tea Room & gift shop

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS. Fully accessible museum, with a lift, ramp access and accessible toilet

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

26/10/2026

Been down here quite a few times when we were doing our first house up.

24/10/2026

🖼️ Visit the Heritage Centre today for a fun packed day of activities!

🔹Start with our crayon rubbing activities, where you can create your very own drawings using original designs of Marshall traction engines...
🔹To dressing up in Victorian outfits in our 20th century street
🔹And at the same step back in time and have a go at playing hopscotch!
🔹Spend a few minutes in our Victorian school room and stitch your very own bookmark
🔹Or take on the challenge and spot our heritage hedgehogs with our special trail.

🏛️ You can also explore:
🔹 Industrial displays featuring Marshall’s and Rose Brothers
🔹 A recreated 20th-century street scene
🔹 Extensive archives for family and local history research
🔹A cosy Tea Room & gift shop
🔹Fully accessible museum, with a lift, ramp access and accessible toilet

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

23/10/2026

🖼️ We love our two new original Karl Wood paintings that entered our collections last week!

These fantastic paintings both showcase some of Gainsborough's iconic buildings from 1942.

The first painting on the left shows the Unitarian Chapel on Beaumont Street. You can also see the frontage of the Marshall's factory on the opposite side of the street.

The other painting to the right is White Horse Yard looking towards the back of the White Horse Pub. Through the alley is Silver Street and the Market Place.

We will be planning to display these paintings within the main Heritage Centre exhibits. Don't forget to pop in and explore our changing exhibits and collections.

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

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21/10/2026

📢 Coming up tomorrow!

The Gainsborough Heritage Centre is looking forward to welcoming Sir Nicholas Bacon, KCVO, OBE, DL for our talk on Thursday 22 October.

Sir Nicholas Bacon will be sharing the story of his Uncle Hicky, the life of Sir Hickman Bacon, an Edwardian gentleman.

Please note entry to the talk and the bar at the venue are both cash only.

🕙 Talk, Thursday 22 October, 7.30pm
🎟 £5 entry
📍 The Club on the Park, Gainsborough, DN21 2HZ (Cash only)

20/10/2026

🖼️ Discover our fantastic Heritage Centre!!

🏛️ Explore:
🔹 Industrial displays featuring Marshall’s and Rose Brothers
🔹 A recreated 20th-century street scene
🔹 Extensive archives for family and local history research
🔹A cosy Tea Room & gift shop
🔹Fully accessible museum, with a lift, ramp access and accessible toilet

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

18/10/2026

Thomas Miller Our Old Town: A Reimagining - Many of the sports of the children in Our Old Town were strange and quaint, and I often fancied that ‘Dan on the Sack’ might have been played by the Danish and Saxon children, after those stormy sea-kings had, through the far-seeing wisdom of good King Alfred, settled down in our island. I seemed to be looking at the childish sports of a remote age,
when I saw Dan, his mound a doorstep or kerb-stone, and his fosse a gutter, as he struggled to defend himself against all comers, he being conquered if they dragged him down, but conqueror if he pulled up one of his assailants.

17/10/2026

🖼️ Our incredible exhibition team update our displays adding new and interesting historical objects, with fascinating stories to share. There is lots to explore and no two visits are ever quite the same!

We have lots of new additions to our 20th century street scene and Post Office displays with new activities for the children, from hopscotch to dressing up outfits and an opportunity to stitch their very own bookmark!

🏛️ Explore:
🔹 Industrial displays featuring Marshall’s and Rose Brothers
🔹 A recreated 20th-century street scene
🔹 Extensive archives for family and local history research
🔹A cosy Tea Room & gift shop
🔹Fully accessible museum, with a lift, ramp access and accessible toilet

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

14/10/2026

📢 Date for the Diary!

The Gainsborough Heritage Centre is looking forward to welcoming Sir Nicholas Bacon, KCVO, OBE, DL for our talk next Thursday 22 October.

Sir Nicholas Bacon will be sharing the story of his Uncle Hicky, the life of Sir Hickman Bacon, an Edwardian gentleman.

Please note entry to the talk and the bar at the venue are both cash only.

🕙 Talk, Thursday 22 October, 7.30pm
🎟 £5 entry
📍 The Club on the Park, Gainsborough, DN21 2HZ (Cash only)

13/10/2026

⭐ The Heritage Centre is located in its own historic building, being first built as a Post Office in 1904, opening by 1905 as a Telephone Exchange and Post Office.

🏛️ On your visit, explore the Centre's fantastic displays charting the story of Gainsborough's growth from as far back as the Romans.

🖼️ Look closer and explore the building and its own heritage too, with an original fireplace located in our research library!
Explore:

🔹 Industrial displays featuring Marshall’s and Rose Brothers
🔹 A recreated 20th-century street scene
🔹 Extensive archives for family and local history research
🔹A cosy Tea Room & gift shop
🔹Fully accessible museum, with a lift, ramp access and accessible toilet

📅 Open every Tuesday and Saturday
🕙 10am to 4pm (last entry 3pm)
🎟️ Entry: £3 adults | FREE for under 16s and members (£15 for annual membership!)

📍 Gainsborough Heritage Centre, 12 North Street, Lincolnshire, DN21 2HS

For more information visit our website 👉 www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk.

Address

12 North Street
Gainsborough
DN212HS

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

01427 610526

Website

https://www.gainsboroughheritage.co.uk/

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