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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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Captain Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also …
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Sir John Gleed

Sir John Wilson Gleed, M.A., J.P. (1865–1946) was Chairman of the Holland Education Committee and of Holland County Council. He was knighted for political and public service by King George VI on 13 Ju…
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Henry Harold Welch Pearson

Henry Harold Welch Pearson (born 28 January 1870 in Long Sutton, died November 1916) was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden i…
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Sir Ralph Norman Angell

(born 1872 – Holbeach) Lecturer, journalist, author and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal founders of the Union of Democratic Control. He served on the …
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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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The Riddle Behind Twenty

Twenty has been the topic of a once famous railway riddle: How many stations are there between Bourne and Spalding? Twenty is a small village on Bourne Fen, which is 3 miles to the east of Bourne, …
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Tiddy Mun

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…
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Glynis Overson talks about her life

Part One: Part Two: [audio mp3="https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.u…
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