| Event type: | Meeting |
| Date: | 2nd June 2026 |
| Time: | 09:30 - 12:00 |
| Venue: | North Hykeham Memorial Hall |
Neil Hanson - time running the highest Inn in Britain in the 1980s.
Neil Hanson has had a long and very chequered career, among a bewildering variety of other jobs, Neil Hanson has been an Oxford graduate, a plasterer’s mate, an ice cream salesman, a holiday camp redcoat and - simultaneously - an art critic and a rugby league commentator.
He will be entertaining us with tales of the highs and lows of running Britain’s highest inn - so isolated that its next-door neighbour was 4 miles away and so high above sea level that it had its own climate, with winds that could tear car-doors off their hinges, and winter snows that cut off the inn for weeks on end.
Neil’s time at the inn included grappling with tight-fisted farmers, eccentric characters, bizarre local customs, naturist weekends, “lates and lock-ins”, police raids, rats in the attic, close encounters with magistrates and planners, and the shooting of a famous double glazing commercial.