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A Lincolnshire Show catalogue for when the show was at Fulney Park, Spalding on 16th, 17th, 18th June 1937. This was when the show moved around the county each year. In 1959 it moved permanently to th ...
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There was a "Tulip Route" in the area of several miles. There was 3 "Tulip Sundays" - the last Sunday in April and the first 2 in May. The traffic would be bumper to bumper m ...
An show stand ad from the Lincolnshire Show Catalogue (held at Spalding) 1937 for A. E. Goodacre of Park Lane. A company name I'm sure many on here are familar with.
It includes a picture of their "o ...
Daniel Abbott Im still writing this book about the 1947 Floods if you have any Memories that you would like to be published with in the book please either reply to this message or email me on abbott ...
This photo shows one of the dredgers employed in improving the navigability of the River Welland between Spalding and the Wash. Dated around 1930ish.
Thanks David Gray
On the Geest theme this is the potato packing department which was featured in Geest News from September 1967 . The lady on the right was my mum Joan Johnson
Posted in Pinchbeck January 27th 1906 to a Miss L. Chapman of Rectory Cottage, Bluntisham, Nr. St. Ives, Huntingdonshire the message reads " Dear Lizzie, I hope that you are keeping well. What cold we ...
This photo, dated as from 1910, shows a view looking along Chapelgate, Sutton St James. ...
The Tulip Queen used to be crowned in Ayscoughfee Gardens by movie stars of the time and I used to be part of the dancers who performed on the stage. I attended ballet and tap classes in one of the do ...
Here's an advert from one of our well known local companies.
'Time saver on land, wet or dry'. 'Caterpillar'.
H. Leverton & Co, Westlode Street, Spalding.
Dated January 1939.
Thanks Davi ...
29th January 1933 of Ice Skating on the Cowbit Wash & of the River Welland - Thanks to Keith Seaton for the photos
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