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Combining in 1959

Spalding Guardian Nostalgia Gosberton Risegate resident Mark Joy has sent us this picture of wheat being combined in 1959. Mark says: “My Dad, Gus Joy, is driving the lorry and Fred Wilson is op…
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Memories of the Sugar Beet Factory

Graham has a query. Does anybody know how railway wagons of sugar beet were unloaded at the factory around 1960. Hope you can put me in touch with anyone that worked there. I am making a model railway…
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When the men worked the fields all their lives

Mark Joy, from Gosberton Risegate, sent us this fantastic photo of his dad, Gus (Augustus), on a John Deere tractor in 1950, pea cutting down Broad Drove, Surfleet Fen Farm, near Gosberton Clough, wit…
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Spalding’s lost river

GEMS FROM THE ARCHIVE: A monthly column by DR MARTIN BLAKE, of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, looking at interesting artefacts from its museum In 1731 John Grundy Sr, a notable surveyor and hydr…
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Farming on Surfleet Fen in 1959

Gosberton Risegate resident Mark Joy has sent us this picture of wheat being combined in 1959. Mark says: “My Dad, Gus Joy, is driving the lorry and Fred Wilson is operating the combine. “They were…
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The Story of Springfields Video

The documentary traces the building and opening of the Springfields Centre. click  HERE…
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WDIDB Photograph Lucks Bridge 1983

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WDIDB Photographs South and North Drains Drove

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WDIDB Conditions of Contract Locks Mill 1938

Conditions of contract Locks Mill PS 1938 pt 1 Conditions of contract Locks Mill PS 1938 pt 2…
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Little London – Long Sutton

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