Facebook-f Twitter Youtube Instagram

Article Category: Agriculture and Countryside

This section of the website gives access to the heritage database by selecting the categories below. 

 

The Story of Springfields Gardens

Documentary tracing the building and opening of the Springfields Centre, whose gardens are the focus of a spectacular display of flowers. The Earl of Lancaster, Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, meets …
Read More
 

Silvester Gordon Boswell, a Romany gypsy,

BBC Look East report on the life of Silvester Gordon Boswell, a Romany gypsy.in 1970. Click HERE to listen to it. Click HERE to read their genealogy https://youtu.be/UWuks7ecLtE…
Read More
 

Sunday School was a serious matter in 1910

Extract from Spalding Guardian SUNDAY School was a serious business in the early part of the 20th century, as this image submitted by Barbara Claxton illustrates. The photograph shows her late fa…
Read More
 

Mole Catcher

The pictures were acquired from a Facebook page but show Mr Barnard at work. However this reminded me of  another book in our collection entitled "The Memoirs of a Fenland Mole Catcher" by Bill “Pop” …
Read More
 

FROM WATERFOWL TO WATERPUMPS

With the opening of the £27,000 pumpi…
Read More
 

Mill at Northgate Pinchbeck

The photograph was taken about 1905. it was owned by James Sellers, a branch of the Grayston family. The photograph shows the Rev Wayett in the middle of the photo.…
Read More
 

Fleet Hargate in 1890’s

…
Read More
 

River Welland – Aegre

Geoff Dodd talked of his childhood memories of the Aegre being seen in Spalding and chasing it. This was before the lock and Spalding was tidal. So  lovely to see this picture found on Facebook. As…
Read More
 

The Last Beast to be sold in the “Old Cattle Market” Spalding October 11th 1938

This Forge has been given the opportunity to digitise George Adams Archive. This is a taster of what is to come.…
Read More
 

Railway Bridge in use over the Coronation Channel Spalding

           …
Read More
31

Get involved

Chain Bridge Forge

Local Heritage