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Murder in Surfleet

  Elizabeth wife of Joseph Warriner, of Surfleet, was charged on suspicion of having, by administering posion, wilfully murdered John Warriner, the son of the said Joseph Warriner by a former …
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Murder of Quadring Schoolmistress

Miss Mary Spencer, a village schoolmistress in Quadring, was murdered brutally in 1842, aged 40. She lived in a cottage off the turnpike road, and pupils would visit her there for lessons. One Frid…
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The Ran-Tanning of Quadring Fen

The last recorded occurrence of “ran-tanning” happened on February 15th, 1928, at Quadring Fen. Constable Thomas Jukes had been working in Gosberton shortly before this date, and on February 14th h…
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Donington – Firemen

Tim Booth says. Big thanks to Sean Taylor for sorting this. Fm F C Clarke (my Grandad) on the memorial board at Donington Firestation. Bottom photo, first one on the left as you look at it.…
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New Year’s Eve fire at Spalding offices

We look back to the Lincs Free Press of this week 100 years ago... The passing of the old year and the advent of 1918 was marked by one of the most disastrous fire which Spalding had experienced fo…
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1947 Floods

Daniel Abbott  Im still writing this book about the 1947 Floods if you have any Memories that you would like to be published with in the book please either reply to this message or email me on abbotto…
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Alarming Fire in Spalding

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The Priory Prison

THE PRIORY PRISON The monk's dormitory has been converted into cottages which stand in Abbey Yard. They are of old brick with Gothic windows and stone buttresses and doorways. A priory grange is now…
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Crowland gets Mains Water

crowland connected to the water main 1935. Comment - We had a tap in the front garden used at to thor it out in the winter before you could make a cup of tea the prisoner of war dug the roads up to…
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General Election of 1918 too close to call and Spalding prisoner of war tells his story

The most gigantic guessing contest ever known in the district was going on with regard to the result of the General Election in the Spalding-with-Boston division. Never, even in a division asso…
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