March 2026
Sir Jamie update 
We started off 2026 with a boom and our first Burns Night at Irnham Hall. Bag piper Bill James played his part with Charlie Charlton’s Ceilidh Band.
The Grantham school of dance sent 6 talented girls to show us how to do the highland fling before a scrumptious dinner cooked by our very own Griffin Inn chefs Jordan & Kelly.
They produced a perfectly pink venison and haggis Wellington for 80 guests, from our estate stock of fallow deer prepared by Bob Broom.
It was a fun night and we will be doing it again next year on Saturday 16 January, so be sure to pop it in your diary.
With weekend trade building Louise Hall & the team decided to open our pub on Friday, Saturday & Sunday throughout January reverting to normal hours in February.
We launched the new Spring menu in time to greet the snow drops and will continue our themed foodie Wednesday nights .. always fun and only £18 including a drink !
Sundays continue to be our busiest day with 60 covers for lunch and Valentine’s is already booked out with a special evening menu.
Andrew Crow has begun laying an estate hedge along Camp Lane. It is always wonderful to see an ancient craft in action, do go and look.
Our metal detecting rally has been organised again this year for Thursday 3rd to Sunday 6th September after a successful one last year.
The organiser Rae Dowsett kindly gave our church warden Charlie Leggatt a pair of Edward 3 silver hammered groats found behind the pub for the church, these are to be displayed alongside the Luttrell Psalter.
They would have been lost at the same time as Sir Geoffrey Luttrell was most prominent in King Edward’s court 700 years ago!
New lattice work to the north opening in the belfry of the Irnham Church 
Work was commissioned and carried out to the north opening of the Belfry.
The old lattice was thrown out of the opening onto the ground below before the work installing the new lattice could begin.
Kit of Taylors carried out the work carrying up the new Lattice Screens up to Belfry.
Chris Miles from the village helped as quite tricky getting them up through a tight space.
The new lattice screens look lovely after it was all completed.
New light bulbs to village lights 
I was pleased to be informed by Sir Jamie that the lamps in the village have been upgraded to LED at the councils expense.
They are a lot brighter especially for the bend from Bulby near our house. Maybe people will slow down a bit more.
The council were spotted by Sir Jamie, exchanging our very special street lamps from a 70 watt bulb to a 18 LED one.
The warm white colour is good and hopefully this will save the council a small fortune!
They were first installed by the council in the 90s when the overhead wires were put underground.
At that time, Tom Bagge found the money and applied for them, while Irnham Estate and Nicky Brewster dug the trenching.
Well fancy that
From Charlie Leggett. Whilst in the church, changing the altar frontal in came a jolly chap and his lady-friend and we had a chat.
I had to get on my way, but asked if they would sign our visitors’ book.
When I locked up, I saw he had written that they run a YouTube channel: Hiking for Health.
He’s just uploaded a delightful Irnham walk video.
If interested it’s a good insight to our village.