Stamford Local History Society

Mandate to attend parliament

Stamford Mercury 1890

Stamford Racecourse on Wittering Heath

An Amusing Apology from a Lincolnshire Newspaper 1806

Stamford Mercury 1725

Stamford Mercury 1863

Source - The Rutland Magazine

Football Match Commentary

Christmas Card

L.N.E.R Ticket

Undated Newspaper Cutting

Mormons in Stamford

Stamford Mercury 1873

Stamford Mercury 1873

RAF

Another Lost Inn in Stamford

Published by the Lincoln Record Society

Stamford Mercury 1860

The Incumbents of the Stamford Churches c.1886

Anonymous Abuse – 1830s style: or Little Changes in Politics.

Source - Town Talk (a London paper).

Stamford Mercury 1845

An eyewitness account

My School-Days which was serialised between October 1896 and September 1897 in The Girl’s Own Paper.

Hall Book 1792

Honorary Life member of the society provides a glimpse of the numerous documents often collected by local churches.

Despite many early records from this period having been destroyed or lost a Steward of Stamford Town preserved a list of sixty aldermen.

A school prize binding

An interesting insight into industrial work rules during WWI

There have been many requests for this book which is now out of print and not easily re-printable

Landlady found face down in cistern

In 2017 Alan Rogers published his transcript of the 1836 rate assessment of Stamford. This important document lists all of the property in the town and names the owners and the tenants.

Text of talk given to Stamford Local History Society

A transcription of a survey of all of the properties owned by Browne's Hospital in 1845. Contains descriptions, site plans and names of tenants.

The earliest known image of the town

The WWI diary of a Stamford man

The earliest surviving hearth tax return for any part of Northamptonshire.