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…
The Bull-nosed Morris Oxford
I posted here before about my grandfather's Aunt Millie: Millicent Parkinson, who remained unmarried and stayed at home to look after her elderly mother Louisa. They live…
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…
June 1940.
France had fallen. The British expeditionary force was being ravaged at Dunkirk. It seemed likely that Adolf Hitler would invade Britain.
Winston Churchill had only been Prime Ministe…
On Wednesday the 18th November 2020, 250 people lined North Street in Crowland to pay their respects to Gordon Frisby, who passed away on Thursday 29th October 2020. The cortège passed through Crowlan…
Tippler’s Memories: My first job in Spalding – part one
Spalding Voice 31/12/2019
John Tippler returns with some of his memories for readers to enjoy.
When I came to leave my first job, a business …
The Down Your Way’ radio team came to Geest. Pictured are Richard Dimbleby, Charlie Fairbanks, Peter and John, according to the note my Mum has put on the back of the photograph.…
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