New! Bygone Lincoln DVD second edition!

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If you liked DVD 1, then you’ve got to have DVD 2 ! A completely new hour on Lincoln as it used to be featuring:

• Lincoln in 1949-51 (black and white cine, interpreted and narrated)
• Harvest time on local farms in the 1940s and 1950s ( as above)
• Lincoln and the Typhoid epidemic 1905.

The black-and-white film shows the City Centre with the traffic and fashions of the time, Lincoln races on the Carholme on the day of the Lincolnshire handicap, the Spring Pleasure Fair, and the Lincoln Model Engineering Club in Boultham Park. Hundreds of Lincoln people are seen.

Lincoln and Typhoid is a documentary about the epidemic in which 131 local people died and more than a thousand fell ill --- caused by the tap water of the day.

It goes on to report how the epidemic led to Lincoln getting a new water supply from Elkesley in Nottinghamshire which it still, in part, enjoys today.

The documentary, which has been short-listed for a national award, includes old film and photos. It publishes for the first time fascinating letters and postcards sent by Lincoln people in 1905 to Alderman Thomas Smith of Newark, a benefactor who sent clean water each day in railway water tenders.

Once again, if you love Lincoln, if you are researching your family history, or if you are looking for a gift for a Lincolnian, you can't go wrong. This DVD can also support educational initiatives.

Painstakingly created by Producer Andrew Blow over several years. Launched September 2007.