Business, Trade and Industry Archives - Page 10 of 27 - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

Captain Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also …

Sir Thomas Boor Crosby

Thomas Boor Crosby was born at Gosberton Risegate on 26 October, 1830, the son of William Crosby (farmer) and Mary Boor. He was Village Doctor to the Lord Mayor of London.…

Sir Halley Stewart

Sir Halley Stewart (18 January 1838 – 26 January 1937) was an English businessman, journalist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1887 to 1895 and …

William Stapleton Royce

(Born in 1858) English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Holland with Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924. He was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, an…

Sir Richard Winfrey

Sir Richard Winfrey (born on 5 August 1858 in Long Sutton, died 18 April 1944) was a British Liberal politician, newspaper publisher and campaigner for agricultural rights. He served as Member of Parl…

Henry Harold Welch Pearson

Henry Harold Welch Pearson (born 28 January 1870 in Long Sutton, died November 1916) was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden i…

Donington May Fair & Marketplace

Donington Marketplace on Market Day: Donington May Fair: photos kindly donated by Myra Featherstone…

The Cobbler of Quadring

Ebanezer Ackland was Quadring’s cobbler. He was born in 1850 and died in 1935. photo kindly donated by Myra Featherstone…

Harrow Inn – Deeping St Nicholas

To the lovely gentleman who tells us so much local history... We had the good fortune to meet a gentleman who was born in our house at the turn of the century. We are now known as Somersby House bu…

Lockwoods (The Canno)

Thanks to Edwin Wright for the image. Obviously down at 'The Canno' (Lockwoods as it then was) My mother Irene (Renee) Wright on the left. Any ideas who the others are? some comments from Faceboo…

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