marjorie73 | More Travels in Lincolnshire

On Bank Holiday Monday we took a trip down memory lane, visiting the village where my mother grew up, and the church there where she and my father were married, which was nice.

We then went to Gunby Hall, a property now owned by the National Trust, nearby.

The estate was owned by the Massingberd family, and the current house was built in 1700, (Now with a Victorian extension),

Gunby Hall

It has quite extensive gardens, with orchards and beehives, and a wood with lots of bluebells

Bluebell Wood

Tulips

Inside the house, there was a small exhibit about one of the last of the Massingberds to live there, a successful soldier who was friends with Rudyard Kipling - the exhibition included studies for 'The cat who walked by itself' drawn by Kipling, which was nice.

After leaving the Hall, we then took a trip to the beach, because really, there are some things that you really have to do on a Bank Holiday Monday. Although in a break with tradition, it was warm and sunny, whereas of course traditionally, a Bank Holiday visit to the seaside includes rain, wind, and mild hypothermia!