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 (Artificial Manure Manufacturers…
This week, John Tippler talks about the waterways of Spalding.
Spalding’s main river is, of course, the Welland, whose town section we now know as a pleasant, but passive, feature of the town.I…
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…
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…
