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Scroll Along time line and click timeline for more information
| 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 | |||
| 1993 | The Harrowby Vault was discovered beneath the North Porch | |||
| 1993 | Organ entirely rebuilt by Wood of Huddersfield and a fourth manual fitted | |||
| 1996 | Christopher Paul Andrews M.A., Rector | |||
| 2000 | Porch at West End to celebrate the Millennium, designed by Matthew Thomas. | |||
| 2004 | Two new training bells cast by Taylors of Loughborough | |||
| 2006 | Royal Arms commissioned by The Friends to celebrate the 80th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II | |||
| 2007 | -2008 | Conservation of books and original documents by Volunteers from the Grantham and District Decorative and Fine Arts Society (GADDFAS) | ||
| 2007 | Dedication of the first phase of the Visitor Centre by John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln | |||
| 2008 | The cross on the North Porch arch was dislodged by an earthquake |
| 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 | |||
| 2007 | Population exceeded 40,000 | |||
| 2008 | The United Reformed Church and Central Methodist Church form a Local Ecumenical Partnership, known as ChristChurch |
| 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 | Benazir Bhutto, the first Islamic woman prime minister (Pakistan) | |||
| 1988 | Pan-Am 747 explodes and crashes at Lockerbie due to a terrorist bomb | |||
| 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 | -1991 | South Africa frees Nelson Mandela and the next year repeals apartheid laws | ||
| 1990 | World Wide Web starts | |||
| 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 | |||
| 1997 | Death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris | |||
| 1997 | Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta | |||
| 2001 | 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington | |||
| 2003 | US & UK War against Iraq | |||
| 2004 | Tsunami in Asia, at least 225,000 killed | |||
| 2008 | Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President | |||
| 2008 | Global financial crisis |
| Elizabeth II | Crowned | 1953 | Reigning | 1973 Britain joins the Common Market (now the EU) | Windsor | |
