A 106-year-old ornate hearse faces an uncertain fate of being sold or even cremated - unless a permanent home can be found for it. Long Sutton and District Civic Society has been searching for a permanent home for the hand drawn hearse for nearly a decade and has now launched a new appeal for help. The beautifully made glass door wheeled carriage was built by Waltons, a Long Sutton coach builder, in 1918 for Long Sutton Urban District Council.
It has had a number of temporary homes in recent years at an undertakers, St Mary’s Church and Lincolnshire Museum of Country Life who had it for twenty years up until 2016. But now Tim Machin, from Long Sutton and District Civic Society, is hoping to find a final resting place for this piece of town history - which has had relatively little use. He said: “We have been trying to find a home for the last eight years ever since it came back from its permanent storage.
“For it to be on display somewhere locally would be good and at a funeral directors would be brilliant as it would be a great promotional tool. “If we can’t find a home it is cremation or eBay which would be a great shame.” It is currently stored on a farm and the society is hoping that it could be given a new lease of life on display or potentially be used.
Mr Machin said: “It is a desirable thing and I was surprised to find that some undertakers and funeral directors do still use them. “Although it is not really suitable for a long journey, it is still a pr.