John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Saturday 20 August 2022
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[2022] Trip to Louth: St. James’ Church & Louth Museum …We… boarded the …waiting №51 (09:36), which departed at 09:40.  We got off, not long before 10.45am, at “Market Place” bus stop, Mercer Row. We crossed the road to look in Boots…; then walked some 85 yards eastwards to check out The Turk’s Head on the corner of Aswell Street and Queen Street. Not finding a menu posted there, we looked at The Mason’s Arms in Cornmarket, The King’s Head in Mercer Road, and the Greyhound Inn on the corner of Upgate and Gospelgate. The last looked most unwelcoming. What about the Wheatsheaf? We proceeded along Gospelgate, passing the “Bedehouses” we first saw on 22 June 2019, turned right along Schoolhouse Lane, and right again into Westgate. The Wheatsheaf Inn wasn’t open — there were lights within, suggesting that someone might open the door sometime — but there was nothing posted on the outside. This too looked unwelcoming. So we made our way to The Miller’s Daughter in Northgate. I can’t remember what route we took. I remember rounding the bend in Northgate, wondering if we’d gone astray, then suddenly finding the way ahead looking familiar, with The Miller’s Daughter in view. Both of us had chicken, topped with cheese, in gratin dishes on a plate with salad: Janet’s was “Hunter’s Chicken” in barbecue sauce; mine was in sweet chilli sauce. She had lemonade with blackcurrant cordial; I had two pints of Peroni Nastro Azzurro. Again, remembering the precise route eludes me; but we approached St. James’ Church along Eastgate. 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:26:38 Heading west along Eastgate, Louth, towards St. James’ Church 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:28:54 East end of St. James’ Church, Louth, seen from the end of Eastgate Janet had something in the café and also paid the £2 for me to go up the tower. 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:38:28 St. James’ Church, Louth: door to the stairwell up the bell tower 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:42:22 St. James’ Church, Louth: bell-tower stairwell, looking down   
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:45:44 St. James’ Church, Louth: the way down and then right, to “The Wild Mare”: the original medieval treadwheel that was used to haul up the stone and mortar for the building of the spire (1501–1515) 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:47:56 St. James’ Church, Louth: “The Wild Mare” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:48:42 St. James’ Church, Louth: bell-tower stairwell, viewed from the little corridor leading to the cell holding “The Wild Mare” treadwheel 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:50:30 St. James’ Church, Louth: door from the stairwell at the south-west corner of the spire-base 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:50:56 St. James’ Church, Louth: door from the stairwell at the south-west corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:51:26 St. James’ Church, Louth: flying buttress at the south-east corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:51:40 St. James’ Church, Louth: view south 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:52:56 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking towards the flying buttress at the north-east corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:53:12 St. James’ Church, Louth: view east 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:53:28 St. James’ Church, Louth: view east (detail) 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:54:22 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking back towards the flying buttress at the north-east corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:54:44 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking towards the flying buttress at the north-west corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:54:58 St. James’ Church, Louth: view north 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:55:36 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking towards the flying buttress at the south-west corner 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:55:56 St. James’ Church, Louth: view west 
Saturday 20 August 2022 12:57:36 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking up the spire From the west side of the steeple, there was insufficient space for me to squeeze through the gap at the south-west corner to get back to the entrance/exit door of the stairwell; so I had to retrace my steps around the west, north, east and south sides to get to it. 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:00:08 St. James’ Church, Louth: descending the stairwell 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:06:44 St. James’ Church, Louth: font and nave, looking east 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:07:08 St. James’ Church, Louth: nave, looking east 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:07:24 St. James’ Church, Louth: east window 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:07:44 St. James’ Church, Louth: ceiling of the nave 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:07:56 St. James’ Church, Louth: ceiling of the nave: angel 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:08:36 St. James’ Church, Louth: ceiling of the nave: alternating red and blue angels 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:09:02 St. James’ Church, Louth: ceiling of the nave: bosses 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:10:40 St. James’ Church, Louth: pulpit 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:13:30 St. James’ Church, Louth: (north-east corner:) Angel Chapel 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:14:48 St. James’ Church, Louth: east window 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:15:14 St. James’ Church, Louth: high altar 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:16:06 St. James’ Church, Louth: (south-east corner:) St. Stephen’s Chapel 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:18:54 St. James’ Church, Louth: chancel and organ 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:19:42 St. James’ Church, Louth: looking west from the chancel 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:20:20 St. James’ Church, Louth: west window, seen through the bell tower supports 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:28:02 “Louth St. James”: knitted model From there, we made our way to visit the museum.  
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:38:24 Rectory, Louth, and plaque commemorating the Lincolnshire Rising 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:40:08 St. James’ Church, Louth: exiting along the south side 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:40:44 Detailed view from the same location as “13:40:08”, showing Louth Market Hall clock tower 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:46:36 Louth Museum, 4 Broadbank, Louth We had no recollection of seeing the giant snail on the gable end when we visited it before, on 14 September 2019 when we got in for free on an “open day”, and on 7 December 2019 when we found it “closed for the winter”; but photos taken on both occasions do show it. 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:48:22 Louth Museum: giant snail on the gable end 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:58:36 Louth Museum: “Panorama Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 13:59:50 Louth Museum: “Ludalinks Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:03:54 Louth Museum: display case in the “Ludalinks Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:05:50 Louth Museum: “Town Gallery” New, since our last visit, was a wooden cabinet with many drawers containing old parchments and papers. There were legal documents with huge seals attached (as shown below). One, we noticed was signed or at least sealed by Henry VI, another by George III. 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:13:16 Louth Museum: manuscript cabinet in the “Town Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:15:18 Louth Museum: one of the manuscripts in the “Town Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:16:26 Louth Museum: “Town Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:19:30 Louth Museum: “Town Mezzanine Gallery” 
Saturday 20 August 2022 14:22:10 Louth Museum: descending to the “Town Gallery” Janet pointed out the sign on a mangle, which said something like:
She commented, “It might as well have just said, ‘If you know what this is, you’re old’!”
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