Events
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Compton Organ Open Day – 19th AM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 19th PM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 21st AM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 21st PM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 26th AM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 26th PM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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TALK – Catastrophe: Outbreak of WWI
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomJoin us on Friday 27th March, in the Museum at 2pm, as Lee Steptoe explains that the European powers went to war in 1914 because long-term tensions caused by militarism, alliances, imperial rivalry and nationalism turned the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand into a chain reaction of declarations of war that escalated into a global […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 28th AM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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Compton Organ Open Day – 28th PM
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomCome and see a piece of Grantham’s musical heritage as it’s being brought back to life! The historic Compton Organ—originally installed in the State Cinema (later the Granada Theatre) in 1937 by the renowned John Compton Organ Company and enjoyed by generations of cinema-goers—is now being carefully installed at Grantham Museum, and you’re invited to […]
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TALK – Finding the Lost Manors of Harlaxton
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomJoin us on Thursday 16th April in the Museum at 2pm, with Doug Brown as we discover the Lost Manors of Harlaxton. In 2024 Harlaxton History Society decided to take on the challenge of organising a community archaeology project in the village to research it's manorial past. Known now for its extravagant mid 19th Century […]
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TALK – Slaughter in the Trenches
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomJoin us on Friday 24th April, in the Museum at 2pm, as Lee Steptoe explores the main events of World War I, explaining how new industrialised warfare, trench deadlock, and brutal battles such as the Somme and Verdun created a four-year stalemate that led to the deaths of over 10 million soldiers. This is the […]
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TALK – The War to End All Wars?
Grantham Museum St Peter's Hill, Grantham, United KingdomJoin us on Friday 29th May, in the Museum at 2pm, as Lee Steptoe examines how, after the devastation of World War I, world leaders attempted to secure lasting peace in the 1920s through the Treaty of Versailles and the creation of the League of Nations, efforts that ultimately struggled to prevent future conflict. This […]
