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LINCOLN AtoZ
by Lincoln A to Z
Discovering Lincoln one grid at a time...
Episodes
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S17 Nothing - The Final Show!
So here it is - the last ever episode of Lincoln AtoZ. After 2 years and 51 grids, we set out on our trusty bikes one final time and bring the show to a climactic frenzy with a grid containing... nothing. Yet, in spite of the lack of any notable features, the sight of an empty field leads Jonny…
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C19 Hykeham Sailing Club
Having previously found themselves figuratively "shut out" in previous grids, this week Jonny and Paul are ACTUALLY shut out, and, with only one more week to go till the end of the series, question whether they'll be able to fulfill their promise to visit each and every grid. Instead, they find...
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N12 Sincil Bank
This week we head into "The Maze", otherwise known as Sincil Bank. The area is of course synonymous with Lincoln City Football Club, and we begin our visit outside the ground as a Tuesday night match kicks off, and reminisce about our times on the terraces. Later, we venture further into The Maze...
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U7 Proposed Eastern Bypass
This week we head out the Eastern side of the city where, after bravely leaping across a ravine, we find ourselves in what is currently a peaceful field, soon to be dug up to make way for the tarmac and petrol fumes of the Proposed Eastern Bypass. We muse over this development, with Paul coming...
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Q12 Lincoln Crematorium
This week's show takes on a more sombre tone as we head out to a place most Lincolnites will visit at some point, one way or another - the Crematorium. Here we meet Nick Barton, Bereavement Services Officer, the man who runs the show, so to speak, at the Crem. Nick takes us through the process,...
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X12 Washingborough Pits
This week we head back to Washy where we pin our hopes on finding the pits, after we singularly failed to do so over in Canwick. Here, Jonny reveals he's riding a girl's bike and wearing his wife's tights, while Paul relives a childhood encounter with nettles and in doing so gives up the chance…
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Bb3 City Hall
This week we take a radical departure from our usual format and present the entire show LIVE from our city centre grid. Listen to us in real time as we wander around the streets trying to look inconspicuous whilst holding a microphone and transmitter! Sadly, the hi-tech piece of kit we were...
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P24 Waddington
This week we venture down to the bottom of our map to the village of Waddington. Several times in the past we've found ourselves excluded by high fences in our village grids - but never before by a man with a machine gun! That's exactly what we found at the Mere Road entrance to RAF Waddo where…
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Cb3: 24 Hours in the City Centre
This week, in a very special episode, Paul spends a full 24 hours on the streets of the city centre observing the changes that happen across an average day. From the early morning street cleaners, to the coffee-drinking commuters, to the night time revellers, each tribe take their turn to…
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V17 Branston
This week we make our second visit to the village of Branston, and on the journey there we indulge in one of our favourite pass times: a pointless competition. Paul wheezes his way up Canwick Hill on his bike while Jonny peers into people's gardens from the top deck as he races him on the bus.…
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K8 West Common
This week we're avoiding big piles of horse pooh on the West Common, accompanied by a very special guest - Jonny's pet greyhound Albert AKA The World's Best Dog. Here, we discuss the aborted plans to bring back horse racing, and add horses to Jonny's long list of animal phobias. Meanwhile, Paul...
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Ba1 Sudbrooke
This week we venture out to the most North-Easterly grid on our map and confront our preconceptions of Sudbrooke, a place so posh they actually use napkins. Jonny quickly sustains an injury but bravely soldiers on, while Paul stumbles upon a babbling brook and suggests a game of Pooh Sticks. Back...
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P5 Ermine East
This week, with your regular hosts away, we decided to hand the show over to Siren FM's Anthony Cafferkey to see what he makes of our P5 grid - Ermine East. Strangely, instead of blathering on about plastic windows or pointlessly bickering, as Paul & Jonny do every week, Anthony takes the frankly...
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W11 Washingborough
This week we head out for the first of two visits to the village of Washingborough where Paul discovers once and for all his status on the programme at the hands of Chris DeBurgh, and we are alarmed by the number of boy racers of all ages. Meanwhile, moral vacuum Jonny goes poking his nose into...
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V3 Nettleham - Mulsane Park
This week we're in Nettleham... sort of. Unfortunately, the convoluted and frankly nonsensical rules we've imposed upon ourselves mean that we can only venture as far as Mulsane Park - a recreational ground on the edge of the village containing a football pitch, cricket ground and ugly pebbledash...
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Lincoln AtoZ Extra: Access LN6
A specially extended version of Paul's interview with Sarah and Laura from Lincolnshire County Council's Access LN6 sustainable transport project.
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E11 Skellingthorpe Road
This week we mount our trusty bicycles and head to the Western end of Skelly Road, but nearly have to abandon the visit when Jonny's knackered old bike finally gives up the ghost. Thankfully, we're not far from one of Access LN6's HireBike stations and Jonny is soon back on the road, which leads…
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J13 Tritton Road
This week Paul & Jonny take a trip down memory lane as they revisit their old alma mater, The City School. Although the scuzzy old buildings they knew and loved have long gone under the swish new Priory City of Lincoln Academy, they are still beset with memories of cross country runs, drama...
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A10 Jerusalem
This week we head to Jerusalem - not THAT one, the one on the West side of Smelly Skelly, where we find the euphemistically named "rendering plant" which is responsible for Skellingthorpe's notorious aroma and get spied on by old ladies. We hit a nadir when, lacking anything else of interest to…
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Db2 Bishops Palace / Usher Gallery
This week we head uphill for an early morning visit to the area around Greenstone Stairs and the Bishops Palace where Paul channels the spirit of Kirsty and Phil to offer property advice, and Jonny sneaks in another moan about plastic windows. Meanwhile, Paul talks to local film producers Hannah...
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N7 Newport Roundabout / Lincoln 10K
This week we head up to the area around the Newport/Longdales Road/Riseholme Road/Yarborough Crescent roundabout where we inspect the green, green grass of Bishop Grosst... Bishop Grotes... er, Bishop Grot Uni, and get spooked out by Micheal Jackson in Newport Cemetery. Meanwhile, Paul channels…
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G10 Swanpool Lincoln-North Kesteven Border
This week we once again find ourselves in an empty field, but this time containing a very important feature not visible to the naked eye - the border between Lincoln City (home to trendy hipsters like Jonny) and NK (where they keep all the money). We also talk to local resident Bob who, after...
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Q9 County Hospital
This week we head to a grid where live changing events happen daily as it contains both the hospital and the prison. We find ourselves contemplating childbirth outside the Maternity Wing, before heading to the Arboretum where Paul gets musical, and on to the prison where Jonny reveals that his...
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E23 South Hykeham
This week we head down to the very bottom of our map, to the village of South Hykeham where we talk farming and food. Back in the studio, we enjoy a picnic of some of the County's finest produce, including haslet, stuffed chine, plum bread, and of course the famous Lincolnshire sausage.…
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V9 Greetwell Hall Farm
This week we venture out into the countryside, to the area around Greetwell Hall. Paul is in heaven in what he's already decided is one of his favourite grids, whilst even Jonny is impressed by this "proper countryside" - particularly as it's still a reassuringly short distance from his natural...
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A20 (Not) Whisby Nature Park
This week we look forward to visiting the restful oasis that is Whisby Nature Park - but instead find ourselves cowering on a grass verge as HGVs whizz past, as we discover that our usually trusty map has lied to us! Instead, the grid turns out to be dominated by caravans, barbed-wire fences and…
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V05 North Greetwell
This week we take the Skeggy road, but only get as far as North Greetwell where we experience the usual rural Lincolnshire warm welcome to strangers and regret not stopping off for a curry. Back in the studio, Tref laments the lack of a pub in the grid, whilst Jo gives us some hard historical...
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K16 Rookery Lane/Newark Road
This week we head to the newly traffic-free (!) junction of Rookery Lane and Newark Road where Jonny attempts to start a war of words between the residents of Hainton Road and Kenilworth Drive, whilst Paul reflects on the happiest day of his life. We also countdown your 5 Best Lincoln Gigs Of All...
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Z6 Cherry Willingham
This week we venture out to the satellite village of "Cherry" where a mud-splattered Jonny and Paul consider the purpose of twin towns and try to ignite a full scale war between the residents of Cherry and neighbouring Reepham when we ask (and answer) the question: which is best? We also hear…
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B21 Pennels, Thorpe Lane
This week we visit the area around one of the UKs oldest family-run businesses, Pennels Garden Centre ("We'll make your ideas grow..."), where Jonny and Paul sneak "backstage" and ponder the potentially dubious uses of a Hot Tub. Meanwhile, the newly-christened "Hot Tub Jonny" manages to offend…
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Ab3 Newland / Brayford Wharf North
This week we're back in the city centre, in the area around Newland and Brayford Wharf North, where Paul and Jonny are pleased to find that students haven't changed too much since their day despite the worrying presence of a gym, and enjoy a trendy Japanese beer on the balcony of the Hilton hotel...
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L09 West End
This week we're in Producer Jonny's beloved 'hood - Lincoln's West End - and whilst Jonny can't resist his customary moan about PVC windows and cars, he quickly wins Paul round to the manifest merits of the area. We also hear from Simon Fitch about West End Lights, an annual community event where...
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Db5 Pelham Bridge
This week we visit the graffiti-ridden, wee-smelling concrete carbunkle that is Pelham Bridge where we lament the streets that were flattened to build this 50s flyover. Jonny questions why, 55 years after it opened, drivers are still moaning about the railway crossings which it was supposed to...
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F15 Swanholme Nature Reserve/Hartsholme Park
This week we head to Hartsholme Country Park and the Swanholme Nature Reserve, where the news that grass snakes and adders have been spotted sends the ophidiophobic Jonny into a panic, while Paul's more bothered by the geese. We also hear some childhood reminiscences of the area from Ben Pickard,...
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C09 Skellingthorpe
This week we once again head out of town, to the exceedingly well-equipped Skellingthorpe – less than half a mile from the Birchwood estate but a very different ambiance, prompting us to question whether public money always goes to the right places. We also stumble across some Sunday League...
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K19 - Brant Road, Lowfields
This week we visit Producer Jonny's childhood 'hood, Brant Road, where we learn about his love of lego and curly wurlys, and his life on the road as The Littlest Hobo. Meanwhile, Paul and Jonny are caught peeping on the current occupants of Jonny's childhood home and are forced to scarper. Back…
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G08 Fossdyke Cycleway
This week is all about transport as we visit a grid square where road, rail, canal and cycleway intersect. Having thrashed Jonny on the Skelly Straight cycle challenge, Paul reveals his rock & roll past and is shocked to discover Jonny's criminal tendencies. Paul and Jonny then consider the…
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R14 Canwick Village, The Pits
This week we venture up Canwick Hill to an area alongside Lincoln Road which apparently contains Canwick Pits. At least, that's what our map tells us - but we were once again thwarted by fences and "keep out" signs, leading Jonny to speculate what the authorities might be hiding in there....
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K13 Sir Francis Hill School
This week, we visit Sir Francis Hill School and the surrounding area, where Paul looks back on his idilic childhood and reveals his part in getting golf banned near Tritton Road. A house proudly displaying an England flag leads us to muse over the meaning of patriotism, while Jo Hughes from...
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W18 Branston Old Hall
This week we schlep out to Branston to stare at big iron gates and high walls in the area around Branston Old Hall. The discovery of an orchard in the grid prompts the first and probably last editions of Jonny’s new quiz A Question Of Apples. Meanwhile, Paul ponders the preponderance of “No Dog...
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L5 Ermine West
This week we visit the post-war suburb of Ermine West where we tear up over missing bunnies and lost teddy bears, and Jonny reveals his own painful search for his lost "Teddy Lee Haw". Meanwhile, we talk to local priest Father Stephen Hoy about whether the area really deserves its reputation, and...
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S12 Canwick Sewage Works
This week we don rubber gloves and hard hats to bust a few myths at the Canwick Sewage Works on Washingborough Road where we discover the little miracle that happens each time you flush the toilet. We also reveal which 1970s glam rock star eats child portions of fish fingers and how 97.8% of...
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J3 Burton By Lincoln
This week we visit the exclusive and expensive hamlet (NOT village!) of Burton By Lincoln where Paul forgets his left-wing credentials and "goes all gooey" over the executive homes with their sweeping driveways and manicured gardens, while Jonny grumbles about the lack of a pub and extols the...
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Bb2 Beaumont Fee
This week we head back to the city centre, to the area around the Police Station, Spring Hill and Motherby Hill. Here, we ponder the aesthetics of "Ryvita House", recall 80s cop shows, relive Paul's theatrical past, and discover a secret door. We're also joined by bestselling author Peter Kerr…
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P17 Bracebridge Heath
This week we wheeze our way up Cross O'Cliff Hill on our bikes to the village of Bracebridge Heath where we visit the old St Johns Hospital site. Once home to thousands of psychiatric patients and staff, the spooky abandoned buildings now attract intrepid photographers eager to record their...
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Q10 Monks Road
This week we visit Monks Road, starting at the beautiful Arboretum and ending on the industrial Spa Road. We consider the impact immigration has had on the area and find out what life on Monks Road was like during the Second World War. Meanwhile, Paul rues not opening Lincoln's first vintage shop…
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D13 Birchwood
This week we visit Birchwood where we ponder the preponderance of churches in the grid, admire the graffiti, and Jonny reveals how he and his family invented Channel 4 property shows. We also discover the proud aviation past of the Birchwood area and the role it played in the Second World War.…
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H11 Swanpool
This week we visit an peaceful, empty field in the Swanpool area - but empty for how long? This area is earmarked for an "urban extension" so the bulldozers could be moving in shortly. Meanwhile, the discovery of Haw Hill in the grid leads producer Jonny Haw to muse over whether this area is his...
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K12 Valentine Road Retail Park
This week we find ourselves in the grim environs of the Tritton Road retail park district of Lincoln, specifically the Valentine Road area around Next, Asda Home and The Range. But, after a depressing walk around the retail sheds and car parks, we find a shining light in the form of the Red Cross...
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S7 Bunkers Hill and The Carlton Centre
After a painful attempt to cycle up Lindum Hill, we find ourselves amongst the "Young Professionals" of the new-build Carlton Boulevard area and The Carlton Centre. Here, we find out about the mining past of the area, Jonny rails against "Drive Thru's", and we decide to risk our cash at the…
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