Air-Raids and Bomb Damage Archives - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

SEARCHLIGHT DISPLAY AT SPALDING

This photo captures an event in Spalding in 1939 (location unknown) at which locals are given a demonstration of a searchlight - this being just before or after the start of the Second World War, when…

A.R.P. Hints (1940)

This article is taken from the ‘Spalding Free Press Yearbook and Almanack for 1939,’ published in 1940. It gives its readers a set of ‘A.R.P. Hints,’ this at a time when there was a very real threa…

Gas Test at Spalding, 1939

This photo is taken from the ‘Spalding Free Press Yearbook and Almanack for 1939.’ It is captioned “Some well-known Spaldonians undergoing a gas test on the Black Swan field.” This was, of course, th…

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…

Sutton Bridge Rescue and First Aid teams

Here is a blast from the past! The first photo is of the ‘Rescue’ team set up during the war in Sutton Bridge. At rear L to R. Mr Rix and Mr Motley At front L to R Harry Tolliday, Mr Lawson, George …

George Furniss

There was a Memorial Dedication and Unveiling Ceremony for Pilot Officer George Furniss on Monday 27th September 2021 on a small, grassy area close to Two Plank Bridge in Spalding. The Stonemas…

Crowland Radar Tower

Another Crowland landmark, Manned by the UK and the USA, I remember two American brothers at our school for a short while , their Dad was Manning the Radar, this would be the 60s I was at South view a…

Did you wonder what happened to the Mary Birch

https://youtu.be/2dlsHh79INU This was a boat was built and owned by the Birch family originally. The short documentary for the wreck of M/S Kali Tychi, ex M/S Mary Birch.…

Damage in Ayscoughfee Gardens

Damage in Ayscoughfee gardens after it was bombed on the afternoon of 2nd Aug 1942. This shows the bowling green this is now the peace garden. The building you see was the stable block that burnt down…

The aftermath of an air raid, Spalding 1941

The damage seen in this photo is the aftermath of an air raid on the 12th May 1941, these council houses were in Johnson Avenue, Spalding. What memories do you have of WW2 in Spalding and surroundi…

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