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Spalding Home Guard, Grandad Popple in the middle outside the Drill Hall on Haverfield Rd ...
Spalding patrol details wanted
A grandson of another member of the World War 2 secret army is also seeking more information about the Spalding patrol.
Working in conjunction with www.britishresist ...
Thanks to Roy Ashton continuing the theme from yesterday, here is a memory from Bruce Robinson. The photographs attached show some of the many people who stepped up to protec ...
75 years ago today Long Sutton celebrated the end of world war 2 in Europe. Looking through the Civic Society archives I wondered how we could remember the occasion and looke ...
I have recently acquired a book called “The Story of No 11 Group” Royal Observer Corps. The book was edited by C.OBS. J. Newton Head Observer, Fox 2 Post. The book was ...
This year will mark 75 years since the the European element of World War 2 came to an end, this article is from January 1945 and was a regular feature in the Spalding G ...
Here's another article from 1945 in relation to local service people on active service in World War 2, I personally knew Ray Barsley due to being a good friend of his son - d ...
The book tells the story of Eric Houldershaw who was born in Hundred Fen, Gosberton Clough, Spalding and spent 50 years in agriculture there. Moving into Spalding in retireme ...
Hello, I am trying to locate the exact area where a Meteor Jet crashed in September 1953. I know that it came down in the orchard of a farm owned by a Mr Richard Sutterby in ...
Terry Grantham was just eight-years-old when he headed off to school one day carrying a little case and a gas mask.
It was September 1, 1939, two days before war was declared, and he found h ...
The paper The papers featured the names of many men and women from Sutton St James, who served their country.
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Local historian and author Bruce Robinson lived in Long Sutton as a child during the war years. His memoirs provide this account of increasing militarisation to counter the threat of German invasion d ...
