Village Views Archives - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

Market Hill, Holbeach in 1977.

The Holbeach cross is reputed to have stood where the traffic island is, but records suggest it could have been on the site of Lloyds bank. More info on the old cross can be found on this link.-https…

Carrington Road Spalding

Jane Gabbutt has kindly sent in three photos, of which this is one of them. She wrote the following.- "Good afternoon, I have a couple of photos you might be interested in - taken on Pennygate and lo…

Stranded in Gosberton 1987

A huge thanks to Richard Baker for sharing this home video filmed in January 1987, when the snowfall in Gosberton was so bad that the village was effectively cut off for a couple of days, and stranded…

THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND CHURCH OF GEDNEY LINCOLNSHIRE BY T. WILLS, F.R.C.S.

THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND CHURCH OF GEDNEY LINCOLNSHIRE BY T. WILLS, FR.G.S. THE HISTORY OF THE PARISH AND CHURCH OF OF GEDNEY HOLLAND, LINCOLNSHIRE BY NORMAN T. WILLS, F.R.G.S. 1970 COPYRIGH…

Pat Wensor Collection – Crowland

Pat Wensor Collection – Surfleet

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Little London – 1908

This 1908 postcard of Little London just sold on eBay for £132 (!!). The view is looking towards the bridge and the streetlamp is about where Hawthorn Bank used to join the road at the end of the now…

Views of Deeping St James

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Aerial Photo looking down on Kirk Gate from the church tower

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Empire Day in Whaplode

Mick Claxton writes. Empire Day in Whaplode in front of school and Bell & Dowl. Possibly 1947. The first Empire Day was May 1902 and changed to Commonwealth Day in 1958…

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