They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & Sold to the tannery.......if you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor…
This photo was taken in 1952 at the top of St Paul's Road. St Paul's Estate was still being built when we moved to Holbeach Rd right next to West Elloe bridge, from Bedford Place, after my Mom had rem…
This lovely photograph shows Geoff Dodd at work building one of the first Flower Parade float's built outside Chain Bridge Forge. The photograph probably dates from around 1960.
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Mrs Sarah Everard on the occasion of her 90th birthday. She was the owner of Fulney House at that time. (It is interesting to view the Census returns for 1891, 1901, and 1911 to see the names of the o…
These photographs were taken at Chain Bridge Forge in Spalding.George Robert Dodd initially purchased the Forge, his son Banks (Jim) Dodd and the third generation Geoff Dodd.
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Perhaps you’re a born and bred Yellowbelly living in Lincolnshire, or another part of the country, or even abroad – ‘farin’, as Lincolnshire people call it – but there again, they sometimes use that w…
The lifestyle of a working-class family in which I grew up. I do not know if it is typical of the rest of our kind, but it may serve to explain why I became the person I am.
I was born in Spalding,…
Sadly today was the funeral of Alec Willson. Alec lived all his life in Spalding and during working as a volunteer at Chain Bridge Forge he recorded this oral history with his sister and May Clark. Du…
