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Port of Spalding

Wonder how they got a photo like this unless from the top of one of the Double Street wharehouses, timber on the bank of the Welland for Groom's Sawmill where I started work age 15 in August 1954 at t…
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West Elloe lift bridge being dismantled.

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Port of Spalding

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Ship moored in the Port of Spalding

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West Elloe Bridge

The original lifting West Elloe Bridge was opened in 1925 almost 100 years ago, I doupt if there is anyone still alive today that will remember the Welland river before then, the small boats in the fo…
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Series of Photos showing the River Welland closed for maintenance

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Chain Bridge Bridge – Swing Bridge

The Bridge was outside Chain Bridge Forge. In the 1920s Mr George Dodd the blacksmith became the harbourmaster and he had the cranking handle in the Forge which fitted into a mechanism on the bridge a…
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Murder in Spalding

In November 1830 two young boatman James Tomlinson and James Munton were passing the Angel public-house in Double Street, Spalding when they made some observation to a man named Richard Cross. Richard…
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Captain John Henry Vine

I would have loved to have known my Great Grandfather Captain John Henry Vine (1845-1923). What tales of the voyages he made during his life as a seafarer he could have told me. Maybe I inherited some…
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James Charles Atkin – Master `Mariner

I have recently been in touch through my River Welland, Shipping & Mariners of Spalding book publishers with a lady who found out about her ancester in it and sent me these photos & obituary p…
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