Video showing Blacksmithing continued late into the evening
Video projection created a lot of interest
Forge beacon setting sail
Geoff Dodd working in the Forge circa 1950
Component of a Wheel
Chain Bridge Forge
Postcard titled “Pinchbeck Street, Spalding ” and dated 1910
Modernising the shop front
The Bridge and Hotel in the background 1850s
West Light at Sutton Bridge
Thimble showing the Forge on all Thimbles
Reverse side of the second thimble with hot metal being shaped
Reversed side on one design metal being heated
Spalding Baptist Church in the 1950″s
4. North St c1910
Chris trying the Oculus Headset
Simon trying the Oculus Headset
Visitors Chris Hammond, Simon Grant Jones and Geoff Taylor
View in the Oculus Headset
3D printing
University Team with visitors from the Forge plus Simon Grant Jones. Apparently i looked better with the headset on.
Alfred Bateman ploughing with Fordson Tractor in Fulney Lane
Building Corn Stack
Building Corn Stack
Building Corn Stack
Building Corn Stack
Ladies with traditional bonnets and sickles
Pictures care of Ramrod
3D pen working
New Stairs leading to the Innovation Centre
New Staircase
Innovation Centre
Floer Parade 1961
Market Place late 1800s
Market Place in 1920s
Markey Place 1906
The market with cars parked on one side of the road
Busy Market Day
Quiet Day in the Market
Market Place – 1885
Violet Birch tows the boat Agriculture
NASA Space Wrench Printed at the Forge
3D Printed Combustion Engine
3D Printed Coat Hook
collection 3D Printed items
Early Flower Parade Float. Anbody
Gosberton Hall School
Entrance Hall to Gosberton School
Gosberton Hall School
Mr Charles Boyer Jnr.
Pupils and Staff at Gosberton Hall School. Probably taken about 1906. It shows Mr Charles Boyer Junior and the Rev Payne. Can you identify any others
Market Day in 1982
Johnson Hospital
Typical Grocers Shop
Cowbit
Jason Watson on the spiral staircase leading to the Prior’s Oven cellar.
Birch’s Mill
Ayscoughfee War Memorial
Coat Hook
Gates awaiting delivery at the Forge
The Loveley Family
The Globe he white building in the middle.
Sale newspaper cutting
Boarden Bridge
Poor state of repair
Fire Station and War Memorial Long Sutton
Interior
Outreach
Bits & Bobs
Coat Hook making at Unique Cottage Studios
Will Pegram
The Elloe Stone
Deeping St Nicholas
Long Sutton unveiling of War Memorial-1920
Long Sutton War Memorial
The Common Rd at Crowland under water
Spalding New Fire Engine – Christening by Coun. W Blades, J.P.
County Sheriff 1935-6 Mr E E Welby Evard, J.P., D.L. Gosberton
Maypole dance, Rectory Gardens 1912
Crowland War Memorial 1922
Pinchbeck War Memorial
Donington
Woman’s Land Arm
Steam Crane at work
Fosdyke
Tiddler Fishing
Gedney
Fire Hearth
Fire Tripod
3 off Street Sign
Simon & Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday c 1891
Ally Sloper (now 120 years old) with Professor Nomis’s Great Grand-daughter – Veronica Liquorish 26th July 2011
Crowland Sports Day 1945
Fancy Dress Parade – August Bank Holiday 1937
The Lady is called Hunt landlady of the gate High pub.
The Gate Hangs High Sutton St James.
Will Statue
St Nicholas Lutton
Pulpit
Nave
Village Hall
Cover Photograph
The original object a Ushabti
Birch letterhead
Birch’s boat Agriculture
Moulton Seas End War Memorial
Pinchbeck War Memorial
Blacksmithing at Chain Bridge Forge
Methodist Church Gosberton
Cab for a lorry
2. Outside 82, North St
1. Celebration in North ST
1st Spalding Sea Scouts with Santa being transported from the railway station
The Dutch have long been part of the Spalding bulb industry and the firm Geomans put a float in the very first parade. ”
l remember It well. The butterfly was really beautiful said Bob Goemans, son of the firm’s founder. He recalled that the framework was made by an employee Charlie Collins from drawing sent over from Holland by Adrianus van Driel, the celebrated Dutch designer, who was succeeded by his equally talented son, today’s designer Kees van Driel.
We have had Tulip Queens since 1950 but it fell to Miss Jill Whitehouse and two attendants to ride high in splendour, in the very first Spalding Flower Parade in 1959. Jill an attractive brunette, had been crowned by star of the time, Vince Eager
Smedley’s, the canners, whose Spalding factory has given employment for many years. mounted their display of products on a lorry for the 1959 Parade
1985 retirement of John Speed
1985
1985
1985
1985
1985
Annual Dinner Dance 1985 25 yrs Service L to R Mr Colin Deighton ASM St Neots, Mrs Daisy Edwards, Mrs C Deighton, Mrs G Adams Mr George Adams, Chairman
25 Years Service 1984 L to R Mrs Anna Wollatt, Mr George Adams – Chairman, Mr Arthur Woollatt, Mr John Adams – MD
Annual Dance March 1981
Annual Dance March 1981
Annual Dance March 1980
Annual Dance March 1979
Annual Dance March 1979 Long Service L to R John Adams MD, Reg Newbury Gt Neots 30yrs, Gordon Winters Ruskington 27yrs, Jean Marriott Ruskington 25yrs, John Speed Ruskington 26yrs, Alan Veal Ruskington 26yrs, George Adams Chairman, Bruce Frith Retail 27yrs, Brian Burrell Spalding 26yrs, Bill Coddington Spalding 26yrs, Tommy
l to r Betty Scoffin, Paul Webster, James Paling, Malcom Terrington, Mary Thorold
Valerie Day checks on progress
accuracy was paramount
Gate Post being installed
Will they fit
Cowbit Church Gates
Trial fit
Skinner’s Grocery Shop and next door Donington’s the ironmongers
Cash and Plowman’s – Furnishing and Draper shop. gone by 1913
Bridge Street looking towards the market 1925
Today
Amy Coates
Boston and Spalding Grammar Challenge
1930’s the Claud Hamilton waiting to leave for Cowbit – D J Franks
Flower Parade Specials in 1980 from Swansea, Bristol, Oxford, Portsmouth and Wokingham – photo G B Wise
Winsover Rd Coop to right
Revills the jewellers in the
EMG Garage St Johns Rd going to make way for housing
Woolworths in Bridge St
Extension for Aldi
Business closing to make way for Aldi extension
Golf at Spalding Golf Club Surfleet
The man on the far right was called Bates and believed to be the yard opposite Gosberton Nursing Home
Church from Main St
Elsey’s Bus in Gosberton
Gosberton looking towards Quadring Lowgate lane to the right
Windows’ Row Salem Street
Five Bells corner, Large building is the chapel now replaced with small building, Cart on its way to Spalding
Grey building vector icon. Old building vector silhouette.
St Peter & St Paul
October 2017
Hall Place
Hall Place
Hook for Poker
Poker
Door Knocker
Dragon Bottle Opener
Bottle Opener
Open Fire Cooking range
Entwinned Hearts
Metal Work for Pub Sign
Tulip Land pre Flower Parade
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Flowers from the flower festival
Door Plaque
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An advert from 1934
New Elsoms House
The original building in Broad St before it was replaced
Burnt out warehouse in Double St 1923
Mr G Elsom
Rope Walk of Pinchbeck Rd
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Spire of St Mary Magdalene
Inside Porch
The Great Wooden Door
Ivory Tablet Insert
Door Inscription
1912 – Crowland from the Lake
1917 – postcard of North St Crowland
Postcard from 1917 – North St Spalding
Grandad Pickering at White Hart
Yard at White Hart
Back way into Shop
Canteen
Couple of photos of crowds in the stands at the Black Swan Field, home of Spalding United F.C. Quite probably not crowds at a football match given the attire but interesting images in my opinion none the less. Not dated unfortunately but 1900-1930.
Couple of photos of crowds in the stands at the Black Swan Field, home of Spalding United F.C. Quite probably not crowds at a football match given the attire but interesting images in my opinion none the less. Not dated unfortunately but 1900-1930.
In the 1905-06 season Spalding had two major football teams it seems (both these were taken by Beales)
Spalding United F.C. 1927-1928. The goalkeeper looks to be wearing a woolen jersey. Good old fashioned leather ball in the foreground.
Spalding United F.C. 1920-21 This time and Alfred Gyde picture. Grandstand at the Black Swan Field in the background. Looks like a succesful year for the club judging by the two trophies in the foreground!
Spalding Guardian Nostalgia
Gosberton Risegate resident Mark Joy has sent us this picture of wheat being combined in 1959.
1959.
Mark says: “My Dad, Gus Joy, is driving the lorry and Fred Wilson is operating the combine. “They were working (and did for many years) for Proctor Bros Ltd,of Gosberton.
“The combine is a Claas vehicle and the lorry a J5 Bedford reg OJL 521.
The photograph was taken on a remote field called Pump Field, close to the South Forty Foot Drain, at the bottom of Broad Drove (almost three miles from Gosberton Clough, on Surfleet Fen Farm.
Mark Joy, from Gosberton Risegate, sent us this fantastic photo of his dad, Gus (Augustus), on a John Deere tractor in 1950, pea cutting down Broad Drove, Surfleet Fen Farm, near Gosberton Clough, with Les Jackson and Fred Wilson.
‘My Dad was born on December 28, 1929. He left school when he turned 14 years old in 1943.
The following month, he started work for Proctor Bros. (Gosberton) Ltd, Gosberton, near Spalding. He began by working horses in the fields for three years and then progressed to driving a John Deere tractor in approx 1947 and using it in the fields until approx 1953 when he began driving a Bedford lorry for Proctor Brothers (Gosberton) Ltd.
He remained with them for 65 years and was still driving their lorries (approximately 12 different lorries in the years he worked for them) until he was 79 years old in 2008, when my Mum, Rita, was taken very ill and he had to finish work to care for her.
He is now almost 88 years old and I’m sure that due to his high level of fitness, he would have been driving Proctor’s lorries well into his 80s had this not happened.’
Private George Dobney, the fourth son of Mr and Mrs Dobney of Risegate House, Gosberton, killed by a shell. He was 20 years old.
Leicester Beam Engine
Somerset Beam Engine
West Butterweich Engine
Dogdyke
1980
April 1924
Easter 1938
July 1937
Traction Engine in use farming around Spalding
VIP Factory Visit 1968 l to r Sir Richard Body MP Noel Smith
1960’s Sugar Bagging l to r Pat Grimwood, Pete Huffam
Factory Civil Defence Drill
Civil Defence 1950’s
Sports Club 1940’s
Spalding Management and Office Staff 1947
Spalding Field Staff 1947
Spalding Management in 1947
Factory Fire Engine 1970’s
l to r John Laud, Harry Chamberlain
1983/84 Loco No 3 Warehouse Driver – Dick Limming Shunter – Mario Giglo
Drag Line Operators l to r Ray Harker, Arthur Cousins
First Carbs ready to lift 1964, First Carbs lifting 1964, Thich juice storage tank about complete 1964
Mitchell Boiler 1964
7.5 Megawatt Turbine 1960s
New evaporators being installed
View from 200ft high silo, Main boiler house in foreground, Bulk sugar tanker are waiting to go out along roadways 1965
Boiler Chimney Inspection
Lime Kiln completed
Construction of the Lime Kiln
R T Diffuser completed
R T Panel 1964
1963 Construction of R T Diffuser
Beet Wash Off late 1950s – early 1960s
Beet Silo 1953
Aerial Photo 1970s
Night Time Splendour Campaign 1970s
Aerial View Campaign 1950s
View over Ash Ponds
Factory 1950s
Factory Campaign 1930s
Beet Delivery and Stocks Campaign 1930s
Sugar factory 1920s
Buildings opposite the Poacher pub
Greyhound Hotel
Spalding Flower Parade in 1967
The village of Moulton
1950’s
1950’s
Blacksmith Club
Gordon’s Grinding as sparks fly
Gordon’s Oil Burning
Spalding Flower Parade
I am Missing you already
Holbeach
St Margaret’s Quadring
North St
East St, Crowland 1950’s
Crowland Toilets near old vets
Bridge Hardware
Sing along group
Believed to be the end of the war
Crowland Post Mill built 1790s worked for 100 years. Burnt down in 1911
HCC workman resurfacing Reform St Near junction wit St Thomas Building behind steam roller was Blacksmith owned by Bill Gray
Fresh water comes to Crowland with the provision of a stand pipe
Bill Drury of Caulton Farm Portland with his Percheon and wagon outside Miss Halfords private school in North St
1907 image of butchers shop which is believed to be in Crowland
Peterborough Images Arhive. Home Crowland, Horseshoe Bridge Crowland 1933
Building on left gone replaced by library and Police Station
Silver Jubileeprocession going past Annibles’s family bakery in East St 1935
A plaque unveiled to commemorate the 13 airman who died when two Lancaster bombers collided during WW2
Crash Site
Miss Marcia Edgar, Bill Snart and Wally Cook leading the St Georges Day Parade on way to Crowland Abbey
1979 members Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery
May Day Celebrations 1950
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Peace Celebrations in North Street 1918
1930ish
Old Methodist Church
Crowland Swimming pool
The George Hotel now (Ye Olde Abbey
Gedney Drove End Home Guard
Long Sutton Civil Defence
Long Sutton Civil Defence
Civil Defence
Long Sutton Home Guard Band
Long Sutton Home Guard
Long Sutton Observer Corp
Civil defence
Girls Training Corp with Headquarters behind
Sutton Bridge Girls Training Corp
Long Sutton
Part of the Home Guard List
Long Sutton
The Pigeon
customer of the pub
Spalding Grammar
A working wooden windpump on The Fens in Cambridgeshire, UK
Flower Parade in 60’s
Early Tulip Queens
Flower Parade in 70″s
Kilbourn, Oliver; An Early Settlement*; Northumberland County Council Libraries; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/an-early-settlement-57890
Crop Marks
Ruins
Generic Library
VE Day in Spalding
Bespoke commissions
Recycling
Up cycling
Brackets
Artistic Wall panel
Poker and BBQ sets
Hearts
Plant Holders
Fire canopy
Key Rings and Dragons
Bespoke Signs
Bespoke metal work
Street Signs
Numbers
Hooks
Bird Feeders
Bespoke Weathervanes
Forges
Gates & Railings
VRgoyle
Aerial photo showing Westlode School now police station
In The Eye of the Beholder
Tea Leaves
Temporary Map for tours and Trails
Bloom
Chain Bridge Forge
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
Flower Parade 1982
St Gulthac
St John Holbeach 1955
8 Church Street, Spalding
Wisteria Lodge, 3 Church Street, Spalding
Master’s Lodge, Church Street, Spalding
Welland House, Spalding
Miss Tulipland 1980
The Sky’s the Limit
Score with the Midland
Pluto and Dumbo Ride Again
Be a Winner… Don’t Drink and Drive
Steaming into the 80s
Over the Sticks
The Muppet Show (George Adams’ float)
Cinderella
The Genie of the Lamp
Miss Tulipland 1982
Captain Pugwash
The Fruits of the Indies (Geest)
British Food Keeps Pop-Eye Afloat (National Farmers’ Union)
England Expects (Maritime England)
The Call of the Sea
“Leeders” in Life Savings
All At Sea (Spalding Young Farmers’ Club)
The Mayflower
Romsey Old Cadets’ Association
Miss Tulipland 1979
Paddington Bear Knows What’s Good (National Farmers’ Union)
Calypso Star (Geest)
Rocking Horse Winner (Lewiss Ltd)
Past and Present (150th Police Service Anniversary)
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Happy 21st Birthday (George Adams)
Merry Tunes (TSB)
Gardening is Fun with the Wombles (Midland Bank)
Leisure Time (Key Markets and Super Key)
The Crown Jewels (Lowland Bulb Co. Ltd)
World Cup Winners (Lowland Bulb Co. Ltd)
Fruit Fantasy (Geest)
The Tortoise Brings Home the Goods
Fun Fair
Parrot Garden
Circus
Golden Harvest
Cleopatra
The Magic Roundabout (Lowland Bulb Co. Ltd)
Pets Corner
Father Christmas Rides Again (Geest)
Cowboys and Indians (TSB bank)
Star Trek
Join the Leeders at the Fair
The Listening Bank (Midland Bank)
Wise Old Owl’s History Lesson
This is the Age of the Train
Life on Mars
Young Farmers in Nurseryland
The Channel Tunnel
The Halifax Vikings (Halifax Building Society)
Captain Cook – A Voyage of Discovery (Midland Bank)
