{"id":616376,"date":"2026-04-20T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616376\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:15:08","slug":"lancaster-bomber-sculpture-site-in-lincolnshire-nearly-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616376\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster bomber sculpture site in Lincolnshire nearly finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans for the Bomber County Gateway Memorial, which is near the Nottinghamshire border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lincolnshire-43170323\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were announced in 2018<\/a> to mark the centenary of the RAF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each wing measures 14.5m (nearly 50ft), and the sculpture is tilted to give the impression that the Lancaster is in flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s Charlie White said the final stages of work involved laying 3,000 sq m of turf, which had been donated by a local firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said it would enable visitors to view the sculpture up close and enjoy &#8220;the hard work of the last eight years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lincolnshire is known as Bomber County due to the large number of military airfields it had during World War Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for the Bomber County Gateway Memorial, which is near the Nottinghamshire border, were announced in 2018 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-616376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}