Tiddy Mun was a legendary bog spirit in Lincolnshire, England, who was believed to have the ability to control the waters and mists of The Fens of South Lincolnshire and The Carrs of North Lincolnshir…
FOLKLORE ON FRIDAY - Twelfth Night
Well dear friends, Christmas is over for another year and most of us now are picking up the threads of our usual routines. Now many complain that Chri…
FOLKLORE ON FRIDAY - The Curse of the Tiddy Mun
Lincolnshire is a large rural county in the east of England, and while it's landscape may be extremely flat and lacking in scenic features …
FOLKLORE ON FRIDAY - The Tale of the Holbeach Gamesters
Once upon a time, not so long ago, decks of cards were referred to as "the Devil's picture-books", for card games lead to gambling, and gambl…
LOOKING BACK: By Long Sutton and District Civic Society
The River Nene between Wisbech and the Wash is today a very different place to the wide muddy wetland that existed prior to the 1830s when th…
As part of a visit to Charnwood Museum in Loughborough that incidentally is lovely museum and is set in a beautiful park which is a real credit to the town. We found this snippet of information.…
The Spalding Guardian for February 27th, 1904 printed details from a correspondent then in his 78th year of an incident he remembered as a young lad. It apparently took place in 1836 on Spalding marke…
The Transported project and Maureen Sutton visited Chain Bridge Forge in late July and as part of this visit she gave a solo performance of Blacksmith Ballards. Maureen is an expert in Lincolnshire fo…
