Grantham HIVE

Grantham HIVE
Prince William of Gloucester Barracks
Bldg 66 Belvoir Avenue
Grantham NG31 7TJ

Email: granthamhive@armymail.mod.uk  
Tel: 0115 957 3426
Mil: (9)4452 Ext 3426

Opening Hours: Mon - Fri: 0900 - 1400 hrs

Prince William of Gloucester Barracks is located on a site occupying the high ground to the east of and overlooking Grantham. On what was originally a flying training school establishment for the Royal Flying Corps, it subsequently became known as RAF Spitalgate. The airfield, when taken over from the RAF, was renamed Prince of William of Gloucester Barracks by HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at a ceremony on the 21st May 1977. It became Headquarters The Royal Logistics Corps Territorial Army on the 5th April 1993.

Grantham is on the border with Leicestershire, a town with its roots in the old stagecoach route from London. There are still several coaching inns, including the famous Beehive Inn at Castlegate, where can be found the world's only "living" pub sign - a real beehive perched in a tree and full of live South African bees, and the Angel Inn is where King Richard III signed the death warrant of the Duke of Buckingham in 1483. The nearby village of Woolsthorpe is where Isaac Newton supposedly saw the famous apple drop that inspired him to discover the law of gravity. He was schooled in Grantham, as was Lady Margaret Thatcher, Baroness of Kesteven, the first woman British Prime Minister. Scenes from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark were filmed in Margaret Thatcher's old school in Grantham. Grantham Tourist Information Centre (TIC) has many leaflets, maps and guidebooks for walking, cycling, leisure activities, local events and places to visit, as well as lots of souvenirs and gift ideas. The Guildhall Centre, St Peter's Hill, Grantham, NG31 6PZ