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Marquee Hire Lincolnshire
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Covering Lincoln, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Boston, Grantham, Stamford, Skegness, Louth, Bourne, Sleaford, Spalding and all areas of Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire is a county on the east coast of England; its main towns include Lincoln, Scunthorpe, Grantham and Grimsby, and the name Lincolnshire is often abbreviated to Lincs. The county was formed in 1974 by uniting the old regions of Lindsey, Holland and Kesteven
Lincolnshire is the second largest county in England - this means lots of space for Marquee Hire Lincolnshire. The county also borders the North Sea.
The city of Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, has a population of 101,000 according to the 2001 census. The Cathedral in Lincoln is considered to have once been the world’s tallest building. It was started in 1092 but over the next 100 years it was destroyed by first a fire and then an earthquake. In February 2008, Lincolnshire suffered another earthquake that reached between 4.7 and 5.3 on the Richter scale.
A large percentage of Lincolnshire’s tourism comes from it’s coastal towns – like Skegness and Maplethorpe. Skegness was the site for the first Butlins Holiday resort, which was built in 1936. The town is 43 miles east of Lincoln.
Grimsby is a town with a population of just under 90,000 and was granted its charter in 1201 by King John. In the 1950’s Grimsby was the busiest and largest fishing port in the world, and was the site for the first British Fish Finger.
One of Lincolnshire’s most famous sons is Sir Isaac Newton – who was a ground breaking Physicist and Mathematician amongst other things. His 1687 book Philosophiae Naturalis Prinicipia Mathematica is one of the most important books in the history of Science.
Another of Lincolnshire’s most notable people is Margaret Thatcher, who was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1979 until 1990. She was the longest continuous Prime Minister since the early 19th Century. One of the most famous events in her time as Prime Minister was the Iranian Embassy Siege, in which lethal force by the Armed Forces was permitted on British soil for the first time in 70 years – this siege happened in London though and not in Lincolnshire.
Scunthorpe, the epicentre of the Lincolnshire Earthquake of 2008, is mainly a steel industry town, with 4500 residents employed in this industry. The industry has been declining in the town though – at its peak, 27,000 residents were employed by the steel industry.
Grantham is an important market town in Lincolnshire and was the first place in the UK to have female police officers – in 1914. Grantham was also the site of the invention of the caterpillar track and the country’s first public library.
Other well known towns in Lincolnshire include Cleethorpes – a seaside resort near Grimsby and Spalding a market town in the south of the county.
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