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1956 The remaining eight niches on the west front were filled with statues.
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The statues in the top row are the four evangelists, St Luke, St Matthew, St Mark and St John. The middle row are St Paul, St Aidan, St Augustine and Bishop John Edward Hine (and cat!). The statues were provided by the Catlin bequest and were sculpted by
| 1951 | The whole of the church was lit by electricity for the first time | |||
| 1952 | Formation of Friends of St Wulfram's More info | |||
| 1956 | The remaining eight niches on the west front were filled with statues. More info | |||
| 1958 | -1959 | Demolition of the Victorian east and west wings of the Vicarage | ||
| 1958 | -1977 | Graham Rogers Sansbury M.A., Vicar | ||
| 1960 | Dedication of the Chapel of St Michael | |||
| 1966 | Dedication of Church Hall beside the Vicarage | |||
| 1966 | Controversy about removing stained glass from Bradley memorial window on safety grounds | |||
| 1967 | -1969 | Laying up of the Machine Gun Corps colours and dedication of memorial tablet and book of remembrance | ||
| 1969 | Porter Window by L C Evetts More info | |||
| 1970 | Hall window by John Hayward More info | |||
| 1972 | Organ enlarged by Cousins of Lincoln | |||
| 1972 | Team Ministry formed in Grantham; Vicar becomes Rector | |||
| 1974 | Pinchbeck Memorial Window More info | |||
| 1974 | Council pays to floodlight the church | |||
| 1977 | -1985 | Rex Alan Howe M.A., Rector | ||
| 1979 | Griffin Memorial Window | |||
| 1982 | -1983 | The statue of St Wulfram on the south-west pinnacle was removed and renovated during major work on the tower | ||
| 1986 | -1996 | Robert Paul Reiss M.A., Rector | ||
| 1990 | A coffee shop was opened in the North Porch |
| 1961 | Grantham Civic Trust founded | |||
| 1963 | Quincentenary Celebrations - 500 yrs since Grantham's Incorporation as a Borough | |||
| 1968 | Church of the Ascension, Harrowby | |||
| 1972 | The Granada closed, leaving Grantham without a cinema More info | |||
| 1974 | Local Government reorganisation took away Grantham's borough status. More info | |||
| 1975 | Church of the Epiphany, Earlesfield | |||
| 1982 | -1984 | Demolition of houses and commercial properties to make way for Morrisons' Isaac Newton Shopping Centre More info | ||
| 1982 | Grantham Leisure Centre opened in Union St | |||
| 1983 | The Paragon Cinema opened, bringing cinema back to Grantham More info | |||
| 1986 | Grantham became a smokeless town | |||
| 1992 | Welby St became Grantham's first pedestrianised street | |||
| 1998 | Meres Leisure Centre, Trent Rd opened More info |
| 1957 | Russians launch first earth-orbiting satellite 'Sputnik' | |||
| 1961 | First man to orbit the earth - Yuri Gagarin of Russia | |||
| 1963 | President J F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas | |||
| 1967 | First successful heart transplant by Dr C Barnard in South Africa | |||
| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr assassinated at Memphis | |||
| 1969 | First man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong | |||
| 1973 | Great Britain enters the European Economic Community | |||
| 1979 | -1990 | Grantham-born Margaret Thatcher is the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain | ||
| 1981 | AIDS is first identified | |||
| 1982 | Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentina | |||
| 1988 | Pan-Am 747 explodes and crashes at Lockerbie due to a terrorist bomb | |||
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto, the first Islamic woman prime minister (Pakistan) | |||
| 1989 | Students take over Tiananmen Square Beijing, in a rally for democracy, many killed | |||
| 1989 | Berlin Wall taken down, East Germany opened to the West | |||
| 1990 | World Wide Web starts | |||
| 1990 | -1991 | South Africa frees Nelson Mandela and the next year repeals apartheid laws | ||
| 1991 | Break up of Soviet Union | |||
| 1992 | Yugoslav Federation broken up; Czechoslovakia agrees to split into two nations | |||
| 1994 | Ordination of first women priests in the Church of England | |||
| 1994 | IRA ceasefire in Northern Ireland |
| Elizabeth II | Crowned | 1953 | Reigning | 1973 Britain joins the Common Market (now the EU) | Windsor | |
