Andrew Plumtree is a volunteer at the Appleby Frodingham Railway-Scunthorpe (formerly preservation society). The society was formed in 1990 to preserve the industrial railway heritage of the Scunthorpe Steelworks and the surrounding local area.

The organisation provide rail tours & driver experiences at the British Steel Scunthorpe site - Britain's largest industrial Railway and the UK's last steelworks utilising blast furnaces.

They are a volunteer run charitable organisation.

Charity name: Appleby Frodingham Railway-Scunthorpe

Charity number: 1196958

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/AFrailway

Booking provider: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/afrps

Website: https://www.afrps.co.uk/

Liz Bennett is the Managing Director of The Ropewalk Arts Centre in Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire.

The Ropewalk is an historic building and the longest surviving ropewalk in the country. It now contains gallery spaces, artists workshops, a small museum, a theatre and a craft shop, and it is also possible to have a guided tour of the building.

www.the-ropewalk.co.uk

Sally Mitchell has been collecting horse-related artefacts most of her life. In 2014 she opened a museum dedicated to the horse in a beautiful old coaching inn, in Tuxford, North Nottinghamshire.

She has curated a fascinating collection of artefacts that cover agriculture, warfare, coaching, racing, riding - every aspect of how horses have been used.

And the museum isn't just for horse lovers. As Sally rightly says, the history of the horse is the history of us all.

https://museumofthehorse.co.uk

Stuart Orme is curator at the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

The Cromwell Museum is in the heart of this historic market town, and housed in the town’s oldest building. Part of a 12th century religious house, the building became the town’s grammar school in 1565, and was attended by Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys in the 1600s. Today it houses the world’s largest collection of artefacts relating to Cromwell, and tells the story of this hugely significant and controversial soldier and statesman ‘warts and all’.

Web: www.cromwellmuseum.org

Bluesky: @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social

Facebook/Instagram: @thecromwellmuseum

TikTok: @cromwell.museum

Twitter/X: @museumcromwell

Youtube: /CromwellMuseum

Sherborne Castle in Dorset, has been the home of the Wingfield-Digby family since 1617. It was built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594, and this historic house reflects a glorious variety of decorative styles from over 400 years of English History.

The Grade I listed Garden was one of Capability Brown’s first commissions and this magnificent English Landscape Garden survives largely unaltered to this day.

In the episode I chat to Maria Wingfield-Digby, wife of Edward Wingfield-Digby who is the current owner of the castle. She oversees the tourism side of the business and the garden is her pride and joy!

Find out more at https://www.sherbornecastle.com

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Barton Upon Humber in North Lincolnshire has a long history, and many historical buildings from the Saxon period onwards.

It also has its fair share of ghosts!

The South Bank Players have been performing the Ghost Walk since 2002 and it's still going strong.

Walks start from Baysgarth House Museum and run on Halloween, and then the last Fridays of November, January, February and March each year (check the website for changes).

The walk starts at 7.30pm and currently tickets are £5 per person (adults and children). The route is around a mile long and takes 75-90 minutes depending on the size of the group.

Book online at www.sbplayers.co.uk