Ruth's Blog

Christmas cards began to be sold in shops in about 1862

Well-known Louth character Miss Kent was painted by local artist Elaine Drewery

A book of detailed maps of Louth in the 1870s

Percy Wolfe was born in Louth in 1879. His parents were Beecher Wolfe and his wife Susanna.

The Greek National poet Andreas Kalvos lived in Louth, and was buried in Keddington Churchyard

An exercise book contains handwritten details of a murder, and recipes

For more than a hundred years, from the 1820s to the 1930s, agricultural implements were made by the Grounsell family in Louth

A look at Louth’s former MPs

In October 1857, Robinson Crusoe and Henry Friday were committed to Louth’s House of Correction for begging in the village of Clee, now Cleethorpes

After the fire in Holy Trinity Church in 1991, its large Bible was taken to Louth Museum for safe keeping