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Allen Mechanical Scythe

Allen mechanical scythe used by Welland and Deepings IDB to maintain the drain banks. Used by council and estates workers for grass cutting. This example is at Pinchbeck Engine Museum. …

Fen Drainage Timeline 852 to Present Day

It's common in South Holland to see fields bordered by drainage ditches and rivers with embankments on each side to protect the surrounding farmland. Early drainage schemes, dug manually, suffered con…

Then and Now – Port of Spalding

Masked by the foliage its difficult to make out the changes to river bank. The cottages are still there but the warehouse has gone. On the right side completed obscured by the tree but Birch's Mill ha…

View along Eaudike Road in Quadring.

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Collection of Cinder Ash Walk Photographs – Long Sutton

Roy Ashton gives this update. History Long Sutton 1920. Cinder Ash was a pretty, leafy place flanked by picket fences with a small ‘rustic’ bridge leading to the sports field. It also boasted a wha…

Automated Tulip Head Remover

The Spalding Bulb Co decided in 1964 to build a mechanised Tulip header to save on the cost of labour. The machine was built in-house by the Farm Workshop manager Ray Wiles assisted by Harold Wilkinso…

Fruit Picking in Quadring

Most people I knew worked in school holidays in some way 'on the land'? Been pulling, bulb cleaning, beet singling, strawberry and raspberry picking, gooseberry pulling, you name it we did it? …

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Allen Mechanical Scythe

Fen Drainage Timeline 852 to Present Day

Then and Now – Port of Spalding

View along Eaudike Road in Quadring.

Collection of Cinder Ash Walk Photographs – Long Sutton

Automated Tulip Head Remover

Fruit Picking in Quadring

River Glen at Surfleet

Rail Crossing in Pinchbeck Rd Spalding

Francis St on a snowy day, Trunch Lane

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