Heritage Centre Opening Times

Our opening times are 9am until 3pm each Saturday and the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month from 11am until 4pm.

More information about the Gainsborough Heritage Centre.

Talks and events planned for this year

Our part of Bomber County

11th May to 28th July 2013

Admission £3 (Members £1.50)

So, what part did the Gainsborough area play in WWII Bomber County?

This exhibition will detail local airfields (including; Hemswell, Scampton, Blyton and Sturgate), showing their involvement in the Second World War and how they played their part. This exhibition will also be remembering the Dambusters Raid on the 70^{th Anniversary of that famous attack. The event will include a reconstruction of an Operations Room and a NAAFI Canteen.}

Marshall items for sale

We have Marshall books and booklets for sale and our new Britannia News DVDs. The Britannia News was the Works Journal for Marshalls.

Each DVD contains PDFs of the Journal for each month of that year.

We have the years 1958 to 1966 currently available and each DVD costs £5.

They are for sale at the Gainsborough Heritage Centre, or if you would like to order by post please contact us on the e-mail address below.

Family History Research Help

Are you finding it difficult to find a relative or someone else in your family history, who lived in Gainsborough or the surrounding area? Click here as we may be able to help. We have access to cemetery records, births, deaths and marriages from the local newspaper, information about local businesses and more.

Key areas of our site

Marshalls - memories and items for sale

Rose Bros- A short history of Rose Brothers

Publications and other items for sale

Can you help us with information or identifying people in these photos? Click on the photos for more info.