In 1890 The Retford and Gainsborough Times ran a story about the opening of Bawtry’s new town hall – the building in Market Place which used to be a florist, and more recently an art gallery. The article is reproduced in a new paper on our history page. Details of the attendees for the opening, the menu of a special lunch and the programme of a celebratory concert are of interest, but what is fascinating is that the article reveals Bawtry might have become an industrial town, with a railway works and a colliery!

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