The popular Lincoln venue, formerly Cinderella’s is to remain open but will be put on the market as a going concern, other clubs in the group, Mansfield, Brighton and Wigan will be closed immediately.
Memories of those 2am fumbles can stay (in’ alive stayin’ alive) in your memories, assuming whoever takes it over will retain it as a nightclub, it’s hard to imagine any other use for such a large building in that area. If you’ve been away from Lincoln for a considerable period, it used to be a Coop shop, not the one that kept burning down!
Tickets for the ever popular Waddington Air Show have gone on sale. The show will take place on the weekend of 30 June/ 1 July. This year there were over 140000 in attendance and as usual the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, we’ll hear them well before we see them, and the Red Arrows will be in attendance, but it will be made even more poignant by the tragic death of Flt Lt Jon Egging who lost his life with the Arrows at a display at Bournemouth. The team have been operating a man short ever since.
Lincoln’s planners have now given the go ahead for the city’s first purpose built mosque, at the old dairy site on the corner of Boultham Park Road and Dixon Street. As you may imagine this was controversial, but the protesters were anxious to point out that their objections were founded on traffic worries with the development also featuring housing and (another) supermarket. Again, if you left Lincoln some time ago the area is no longer a relatively quiet suburban district with both roads being a bit of a rat run and nose to tail a lot of the time. Presumably some road improvements will have to be paid for by the developers but it’s difficult to see major improvements due to the amount of space available. Still, a little of the East comes to the er East, but hopefully they don’t have one of those blokes with a megaphone in a minaret at four in the morning!
High Street’s level crossing continues to dominate conversations in Lincoln with network rail re routing large numbers of trains through the city due to works on the East Coast Main Line causing mayhem as the barriers are down an extra 40 times at the weekend. The long term solution is to close and pedestrianise High Street at the crossing and this week businesses affected by the resulting £20 million link road to connect St Marks Street to Pelham Bridge were told that they will be offered new premises. Lincolnshire County Council has secured £500,000 from the EC to develop seven business units in one block. The new road is expected to be in place by 2013 and it is to be hoped that the development will smarten up a pretty depressing area as well as improve traffic.
Finally, the Lincolnshire Echo reported that there were no less than six local pantomimes selling tickets for the Christmas period already. The main Lincoln offerings are the Theatre Royals Cinderella with the so old fashioned they're back in fashion Cannon and Ball appearing for a third successive season (can’t wait) and the Drill Hall’s Snow White. In addition, in the city the Lincoln Company present the Snow Queen at the Performing Arts Centre and this runs until the 24th December, oh no it doesn’t, oh yes it does. Had to get that one in.
Have a good week, wherever you are in the world.
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