War and Armed Forces Archives - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

The Day a Gloster Meteor Crashed

My name is Richard Hubbard. In 1953 I was a 13 year old Spalding Grammar Schoolboy mad about aircraft and a committed plane spotter. The skies over South Lincolnshire were full of low flying militar…

Enemy Attack statistics for Holland-With-Boston during World War Two

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…

RAF Personnel Camp

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…

Moulton Chapel Memories – Jim Benton

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 …

Homesick Evacuee

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More Memories of Homeguard

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 …

The Life of William Roberts

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…

RAF Plane Crash 1940

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.…

John Choma memories

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…

Prisoner of War Registration Card

Mr Choma prisoner of war registration card…

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