My name is Richard Hubbard. Â In 1953 I was a 13 year old Spalding Grammar Schoolboy mad about aircraft and a committed plane spotter. Â The skies over South Lincolnshire were full of low flying militar…
It was not until the end of the Second World War that the scale of enemy attacks in Spalding and the surrounding area finally became known, as revealed in this article from the 18 November 1945 editio…
This is the RAF personnel’s camp on the river side west during and after the war. The German prisoner of war camp was beyond where the old iron bridge was over the entrance to the docks, which collaps…
Does anyone on this page live in Benton Close in the village? If so you may be unaware where the name came from. It is named after the brave man in these photos, George "Jim" Benton.
Jim was born in …
My grandfather Charles Edward Smith who lived at Monks House and who served in the tank regiment in world war 1 was an officer in the Spalding home guard unit. They were stationed around the concrete …
William was the first child born to the marriage and he was followed by John Thomas born in 1900. In 1901 the family were living in London Road, Spalding, and William was working as a general labourer…
An early wartime incident occurred in Gosberton parish in February 1940, when a plane crashed in a field at Gosberton Risegate, killing two R.A.F. airmen.…
Hi. I can remember coming to that blacksmiths shop (Chain Bridge Forge) when I was about 6 years old. I'd broken my pedal go-kart. About 1966. Which leads me to my father. He was Ukraine. And I know h…