Drainage/Defence Archives - Page 6 of 6 - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

WDIDB Reports on Welland River Board Lower Glen River

Report on Lower Reaches of Glen Welland River Board 1959 pt 3 Report on Lower Reaches of Glen Welland River Board 1959 pt 2 Report on Lower Reaches of Glen Welland River Board 1959 pt 1…

WDIDB – Bourne/Thurlby Schemes

Letter re Heathcotes Tunnel 1922 Letter re Conditions of Drainage within Bourne South Fen and Thurlby Fen 1915 Bourne Eau and Glen Banks Report 1913 G E Matthews Bourne Drainage Board Propose…

WDIDB Drawings of Surfleet Bridge

Surfleet Bridge Proposed Sections 1883 Surfleet Bridge Cross Section of Old and New 1883 Surfleet Bridge Proposed Sections 1883 A Surfleet Bridge Proposed Sections 1883 No.2…

Constructing Coronation Channel

Then and Now 1750 Plan of the Drains and Tunnels of Sewers

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Allen Mechanical Scythe

Allen mechanical scythe used by Welland and Deepings IDB to maintain the drain banks. Used by council and estates workers for grass cutting. This example is at Pinchbeck Engine Museum. …

Fen Drainage Timeline 852 to Present Day

It's common in South Holland to see fields bordered by drainage ditches and rivers with embankments on each side to protect the surrounding farmland. Early drainage schemes, dug manually, suffered con…

Educational Film about The Fenlands – 1974

Last in the series of films from the East Anglian Film Archive about our locality. The film describing the geography of the Fens. click HERE to see the film.…

Steam Pumping Engine at Pode Hole Nr. Spalding with school on the right. c 1950

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Floods couldn’t defeat South Holland’s Spirit – Memories of 1947 Flood

Extracts taken from Spalding Guardian 21st March 1997 (click on images to enlarge) FRIDAY. 21 March1947 - and news breaks that the unthinkable. The unhoped for had happened. The latest in a ser…

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