Louth Museum

Located at 4 Broadbank, Louth, LN11 0EQ, the museum has four galleries, a library which doubles as a space for exhibitions, and a gift shop.

Among its displays is the largest national collection of woodcarvings by the prize-winning Victorian sculptor and carver Thomas Wilkinson Wallis.

Galleries at the museum cover 200,000 years of local archaeology and history, including fossils, the disastrous Louth Flood of 1920 and the story of the Ghost of the Green Lady of Thorpe Hall.

Brown's detailed artwork reveals the people, businesses and buildings of Louth as it was in 1844, and shows the landscape as far as the North Sea to the east and northwards to the Humber Estuary and beyond.

Keal was executed at Lincoln Castle then his corpse was brought by cart to Louth where it was suspended at what was then known as Broad Spot and which is now the fork of Kenwick Road.

[4] The museum holds the largest collection of carvings and paintings by the noted sculptor and carver Thomas Wilkinson Wallis (1821-1903), who for much of his life lived nearby on Gospelgate.

[5] He went on to create about seventy carvings of outstanding quality, usually of dead birds and foliage, from a single piece of limewood, mainly to commission.

The renowned artist and critic John Ruskin favourably compared the work of Wallis to that of Grinling Gibbons.