By Robert and Clare Humm
And about time too! At long last we have an opening date. We shall be opening at 59 Scotgate, Stamford PE9 2YQ at 9:30 am on Monday 15 February. Our opening hours will be as before – 9:30 – 5:00 every day except Wednesdays and Sundays. We usually close for lunch 1:00 – 2:00. My apologies…
Our old shop at Station House really looks blitzed now that the counter has gone. But here it is, neatly adapted and installed in our new shop at the old Black Horse. All we need are some beer pumps and racks of sparkling glasses. We are now ready to have the phone system moved; this is…
The epic of Stamford Station canopy continues – Network Rail have submitted revised plans for listed building consent. The new design gives a narrower canopy, with the supporting columns set further back from the platform edge. Network Rail say that “this alteration is necessary to achieve required clearances from trains and elements of operational infrastructure”….
By good fortune the Guvnor’s significant birthday fell on his day off, so we wheeled out our speedy motor and headed across the fens and along the north Norfolk coast to Wells. The weather was grey and indifferent, but we found a harbourside café for lunch and strolled along the quay. We even found the…
Some things are never certain, and those of us who have waited – tripods steadied, cameras focussed – for a rumoured special working, know instinctively that, should the train appear at all, it will not, under any circumstances appear at the time that rumour predicts. So there’s not a lot of point in being at…
Progress at the new premises continues apace. We have moved most of the shelving from the Aviation Room and upstairs areas of Station House and Robert has been fitting them into the non-sales parts of the new building. My office overlooking the traffic lights (how I shall miss the railway) is all shelved up and…
Our railway – the line from Syston to Peterborough – is part of the rail link between Birmingham and the port of Felixstowe. We have always had a certain amount of goods traffic through Stamford, particularly the cement trains from Ketton just down the track, but since the line was upgraded to take container traffic our freight services…
We’ve been at Station House since 1987 and now our long lease is drawing to a close. Maybe when we signed up to it we thought we should have had enough of bookselling by the time it ended, but no – bookselling is a habit which dies hard. So we are going to move. The…