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Scroll Along time line and click timeline for more information
| 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 | |
