Editing Grantham (section)

== Landmarks ==
{{further|Public houses and inns in Grantham}}
[[File:Beehivepubsign.jpg|thumb|The living pub sign of The Beehive, at 10 Castlegate]]
[[File:Grantham Guildhall.jpg|thumb|left|[[Grantham Guildhall]] on St Peters Hill designed by William Watkin]]
[[File:The Red House - geograph.org.uk - 335316.jpg|thumb|The Red House on North Parade (former ''Oddfellows Arms'')]]
[[Grantham House]] is to the east of the church, and a [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust]] property.

Grantham has the country's only "living" [[public house]] sign: a beehive of South African [[African bee|bees]] situated outside the ''Beehive Inn'' since 1830.

[[Grantham Guildhall]] on St Peter's Hill is now the Guildhall Arts Centre.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Town Hall, Grantham|num=1360282|access-date=12 July 2020}}</ref> Edith Smith Way is a road next to the Arts Centre, named after England's first policewoman. Mary Allen and Ellen F. Harburn reported for duty on 27 November 1914.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Allen |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Wallen.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425110005/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wallen.htm |archive-date=25 April 2009 |access-date=27 February 2019 |publisher=Spartacus-Educational.com }}</ref> Mary Allen was a former suffragette and had been previously arrested outside the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] and later went on to be the commandant of the UK's women's police force from the 1920s up to 1940. She helped to set up women's police forces in other countries, including Germany. Edith Smith became the first female with powers of arrest in August 1915.<ref>{{cite news |date=13 January 2006 |title=Town remembers first policewoman |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/4610200.stm |access-date=30 July 2009}}</ref>

Sandon Road is named after [[Viscount Sandon]], also the [[Earl of Harrowby]]. The first person with the title was [[Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby]]; a road is also named after him. He bought [[Harrowby Hall]] in 1754. The current owner is [[Dudley Ryder, 8th Earl of Harrowby]].{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

The ''Blue Pig'', one of many ''Blue'' pubs, stands in Vine Street, near the Church of St Wulfram. The building is one of probably only four remaining [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] buildings in the town and a survivor of the disastrous fires of the 1660s.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} It was first mentioned as an inn in a trade directory of 1846, when the landlord was one Richard Summersby. The property was then owned by the [[:Category:Manners family|Manners family]] (giving the derivation of Blue in the name).{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}
[[File:Gorse Lane, Grantham - geograph.org.uk - 38706.jpg|thumb|160px|right|The water tower on Gorse Lane is a local landmark for drivers]] The nearby ''George Hotel'' (known as St Peter's Place, now the George Shopping Centre) was mentioned in [[Charles Dickens]]'s novel [[Nicholas Nickleby]]. Many of the town's property and industrial estates have been owned by [[Buckminster]] Trust Estates since the time of the [[Earl of Dysart]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Tollemache |first=Sir Richard John |title=Land known as 12 Trust of Buckminster Estate - CA-7-1-370 |url=https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/1718/land-known-as-12-trust-of-buckminster-estate-ca-7-1-370 |publisher=Lincolnshire County Council}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Tollemache |first=Sir Richard John |date=2013-09-27 |title=Land known as 12 Trust of Buckminster Estate - CA-7-1-368 |url=https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/1720/land-known-as-9-trust-of-buckminster-estate-ca-7-1-368 |publisher=Lincolnshire County Council}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Buckminster Developments Limited |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00845496 |website=Company Information Service, Government of United Kingdom}}</ref>

To the west of the town near the [[A607 road|A607]] is Baird's [[malt]]ings, owned by Moray Firth until 1999 and before that by R & W Paul. Other maltings have been converted for residential use, such as Riverview Maltings near the river, formerly owned by Lee & Grinling's.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Grantham [[Jobcentre Plus|JobCentre]] was opened on 24 June 1975 by local MP [[Joseph Godber]].{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} [[Grantham and Kesteven Hospital|Grantham and District Hospital]] stands next to the Priory Ruskin Academy on the A607 in the north of the town. The maternity unit opened in August 1972 is now a midwife-staffed unit.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Nearby are many historic houses including 17th-century [[Belton House]] (the [[Brownlow baronets|Brownlows]]), early 19th-century [[Harlaxton Manor]] (the [[Philip Pearson-Gregory|Gregorys]]), [[Stoke Rochford Hall]] (owned by the Turnors, and since 1978 a training centre of the [[National Union of Teachers|NUT]]), and the 19th-century [[Belvoir Castle]] (the [[David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland|Manners]]), in [[Leicestershire]]. Much of the property and land to the south-west of the area is owned by the two estates of Belvoir and Buckminster.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":11" /> Further to the south of Stoke Rochford are the [[Cholmeley baronets|Cholmeleys]] of [[Easton, Lincolnshire|Easton Hall]].

On 15 May 2022 a {{convert|10|ft|6|in|1|adj=on}} high bronze [[Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Grantham)|statue of Margaret Thatcher]], dressed in the full ceremonial robes of the [[House of Lords]], by sculptor [[Douglas Jennings]] and costing £300,000, was installed.<ref name="museum">{{cite web |date=26 November 2018 |title=Margaret Thatcher statue plans unveiled |url=https://www.granthammuseum.org.uk/2018/11/26/margaret-thatcher-statue-plans-unveiled/ |access-date=16 May 2022 |publisher=Grantham Museum |archive-date=19 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519124320/https://www.granthammuseum.org.uk/2018/11/26/margaret-thatcher-statue-plans-unveiled/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Located on St Peter's Hill Green, close to the [[Grantham Museum]], it was placed on a {{convert|10|ft|6|in|1|adj=on}} tall plinth to discourage vandalism, but was [[egging|attacked with eggs]] within two hours of its unveiling.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|last=Brown |first=Mark |date=15 May 2022 |title=Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of it being installed |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/15/margaret-thatcher-statue-grantham-egged-within-hours-of-it-being-installed |access-date=15 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="museum" /><ref name="live">{{cite web |last=Laver |first=Adam |date=15 May 2022 |title=Police issue statement over egg thrown at Margaret Thatcher statue |url=https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/police-issue-statement-over-egg-7083447 |access-date=18 May 2022 |website=LincolnshireLive}}</ref> It has since been vandalised on four further occasions.
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