Rivers, Streams and Brooks
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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
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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A view down the river Welland showing a vessel and in the distance a building with a large chimney that would be the Holbeach Road, Hunt & Jennings Steam Bone Mill (Artif ...
This week, John Tippler talks about the waterways of Spalding.
Spalding’s main river is, of course ...
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 ...
Fabulous medieval engineering in the re-routing of the R Welland by Crowland Abbey to bring the river almost to its doors, & then building the extraordinary 3-way medieval bridge across its conflu ...
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 ...
