December 30, 2016 10.19 am
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Reflections 2016: Nicky Barr – Another incredibly busy year for the IBCC team
During the last year, the team has hosted over 8,000 people from nine different countries around the site on free guided tours. This has included involving 600 primary school children in tours or events. We have hosted six film crews, outside of regional media, for both TV and the silver screen. We have also trained 172…
IBCC Director Nicky Barr. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
During the last year, the team has hosted over 8,000 people from nine different countries around the site on free guided tours. This has included involving 600 primary school children in tours or events.
We have hosted six film crews, outside of regional media, for both TV and the silver screen. We have also trained 172 of our 528 volunteers in new tasks.
Construction on the Chadwick Centre has now started and the steel frame is now in place, along with the first-floor concrete slab and the stairs.
Work has officially begun to construct the Chadwick Centre on the Canwick Hill site. Photo: IBCC
The car parks have been stripped and the sub base laid and works are now underway to put all the site drainage in place.
The steel frame has been erected at the site.
During these works we uncovered 31 Romans – a very expensive and time-consuming process.
The IBCC has been working hard to establish relationships with a number of different organisations within the tourism sector and will be joining with AHL, SKDC, the Petwood Hotel and Visit Lincoln at the British Travel and Tourism Show in March.
The aim is to promote the whole of the county through relationship marketing.
We have also been looking at specific coach programmes with the castle, cathedral and other city based heritage sites and also looking at joint ticketing offers with other sites across the county.
The archive team have digitised over 70,000 letters, diaries, photographs and other documents, all from private collections and recorded over 600 oral history interviews with veterans, survivors of the bombings and those who from support services during the War. This collection will become the largest free to use research repository on Bomber Command in the world, once launched in summer 2017.
Below is a taste of what our team have been up to in 2016.
The youngsters are continuing to raise money for the project.
November
Hosted the Director and Head of Research of the National Archives at the IBCC site
Remembrance Ceremony with 120 schoolchildren from 4 local schools’ laid poppies and spent time with the 8 attending veterans.
Youngstars – “Tears of the World” released
First IBCC Open Day – 800 people visited the site.
Filmed a programme with Bargain Hunt – due to air April 2017
Hosted the Curator and Head of Research of the Luftwaffen Museum, Berlin on the site
Volunteer event at RAF Waddington Officers’ Mess. Over 100 volunteers from across the country attended
Sleaford Town Concert Band and the Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice Choir perform concert, Aspire to the Skies, in aid of IBCC
Youngstars hit number 1 in the physical sales charts two weeks running!
December
City of Lincoln Freeman’s Guild and Lincoln Concert Orchestra put on a concert at St
Katherine’s Cathedral to raise money for the IBCC
Visit to Germany creating connections with universities and museums and sourcing oral history contacts.
New Year’s resolution
To finally open the doors to the visitor centre at the IBCC.
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Nicky Barr is the Director of the ongoing International Bomber Command Centre project on Canwick Hill in Lincoln.
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December 28, 2016 9.00 am
This story is over 58 months old
Reflections 2016: Nicky Barr – Another incredibly busy year for the IBCC team
During the last year, the team has hosted over 8,000 people from nine different countries around the site on free guided tours. This has included involving 600 primary school children in tours or events. We have hosted six film crews, outside of regional media, for both TV and the silver screen. We have also trained 172…
IBCC Director Nicky Barr. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
During the last year, the team has hosted over 8,000 people from nine different countries around the site on free guided tours. This has included involving 600 primary school children in tours or events.
We have hosted six film crews, outside of regional media, for both TV and the silver screen. We have also trained 172 of our 528 volunteers in new tasks.
Construction on the Chadwick Centre has now started and the steel frame is now in place, along with the first-floor concrete slab and the stairs.
Work has officially begun to construct the Chadwick Centre on the Canwick Hill site. Photo: IBCC
The car parks have been stripped and the sub base laid and works are now underway to put all the site drainage in place.
The steel frame has been erected at the site.
During these works we uncovered 31 Romans – a very expensive and time-consuming process.
The IBCC has been working hard to establish relationships with a number of different organisations within the tourism sector and will be joining with AHL, SKDC, the Petwood Hotel and Visit Lincoln at the British Travel and Tourism Show in March.
The aim is to promote the whole of the county through relationship marketing.
We have also been looking at specific coach programmes with the castle, cathedral and other city based heritage sites and also looking at joint ticketing offers with other sites across the county.
The archive team have digitised over 70,000 letters, diaries, photographs and other documents, all from private collections and recorded over 600 oral history interviews with veterans, survivors of the bombings and those who from support services during the War. This collection will become the largest free to use research repository on Bomber Command in the world, once launched in summer 2017.
Below is a taste of what our team have been up to in 2016.
The youngsters are continuing to raise money for the project.
November
Hosted the Director and Head of Research of the National Archives at the IBCC site
Remembrance Ceremony with 120 schoolchildren from 4 local schools’ laid poppies and spent time with the 8 attending veterans.
Youngstars – “Tears of the World” released
First IBCC Open Day – 800 people visited the site.
Filmed a programme with Bargain Hunt – due to air April 2017
Hosted the Curator and Head of Research of the Luftwaffen Museum, Berlin on the site
Volunteer event at RAF Waddington Officers’ Mess. Over 100 volunteers from across the country attended
Sleaford Town Concert Band and the Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice Choir perform concert, Aspire to the Skies, in aid of IBCC
Youngstars hit number 1 in the physical sales charts two weeks running!
December
City of Lincoln Freeman’s Guild and Lincoln Concert Orchestra put on a concert at St
Katherine’s Cathedral to raise money for the IBCC
Visit to Germany creating connections with universities and museums and sourcing oral history contacts.
My New Year’s Resolution
To finally open the doors to the visitor centre at the IBCC
Nicky Barr is the Director of the ongoing International Bomber Command Centre project on Canwick Hill in Lincoln.
The Lincolnite welcomes your views. All comments are reactively-moderated and must obey the house rules. Please stay on topic and be respectful of other readers.
The Lincolnite welcomes your views. All comments are reactively-moderated and must obey the house rules. Please stay on topic and be respectful of other readers.
Children and families in Hemswell Cliff now have a newly-refurbished play park to enjoy.
West Lindsey District Council and the Hemswell Resident Company have been working to re-invest part of their service charges to improve the area for all.
Head Teacher at Hemswell Cliff Primary School Mrs Angie Waplington, confirmed that local children have already been making the most out of the fun, new facilities on offer.
She said: “The children love the new equipment, and the park is well used.”
Families and children are enjoying the new space.
West Lindsey Community Policing Inspector, Gary Brockie, said: “Our local policing team works closely with the council to reduce incidents of ASB and the negative impact this can have on our communities, and we wholeheartedly support the actions being taken to improve facilities for local residents.
“Play areas like this provide young people with positive opportunity to exercise and socialise in safe environments and also provide support for parents.”
We are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted on Albion Street Spalding on Saturday 27 November between 5.30pm and 6.30pm.
Our force control room received a report that a woman in her 20s was assaulted by a man who grabbed her around the neck and forced her to the ground.
We believe the male suspect may have followed the victim over the footbridge from the High Street and onto Albion Street where the incident happened.
Reports suggest that three men came to the rescue of the woman and confronted the man before he left the scene. There are also reports that a passing motorist may have stopped briefly and spoken with these three men.
We are currently pursuing a number of enquiries into this incident but we are particularly keen to identify and speak with these men who appear to have intervened and helped the victim.
It is likely that they have had close contact with the suspect and may have information that will help to identify him.
We would also like to hear from anybody who was in the area of Albion Street or High Street between the hours of 5.30 and 6.30pm on Saturday evening that may be able to assist with this enquiry.
Anybody with any information including dashcam footage, please contact Lincolnshire Police on 101 quoting Inc 351 – 27/11/21.
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