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Tippler’s Memories

Tippler’s Memories: My first job in Spalding – part one Spalding Voice 31/12/2019 John Tippler returns with some of his memories for readers to enjoy. When I came to leave my first job, a business …
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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…
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Jane’s Fletcher and Rosetta Farrow

Remembrance Day Lest We Forget: Jabez Fletcher and Rosetta Farrow (of the Farrows Peas family and we always keep a tin in the cupboard) were married at Whaplode, Lincolnshire in 1878. On the 1881 cens…
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Barbara McLean

It was Barbara McLaren who first proposed the memorial and engaged Lutyens to design it. Mrs McLaren was a niece of Lutyens’ noted collaborator, Gertrude Jekyll, and Lutyens had already designed a hou…
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Belgian Refugees

During the War, Ayscoughfee provided a home to Belgian Refugee families. Rev. Prior Clement Tyck, a Roman Catholic Priest of Belgian Nationality was one of the first people to travel to London to welc…
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Spalding Home Guard

I saw a similar post recently and remembered this one with my grandfather, RSM Albert Smith (right), who also served for a short time in the Spalding Home Guard. This photo is from 1952, Albert was 79…
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Surfleet Home Guard 1942

An original platoon postcard Eric Munton - 1st row standing - Far right - Second one in…
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Army Volunteer Reserves

The group portrait was taken on Sutton Bridge in 1914.  …
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Dr Katherine Storr reflects on the impact of WW1

DR KATHERINE STORR Following a career in teaching, Katherine retired in 1987 through ill health.  However, in 1993 she began studying at the University of Sussex, taking first a B.A. in Cultural Stud…
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Spalding Home Guard

Spalding Home Guard, Grandad Popple in the middle outside the Drill Hall on Haverfield Rd…
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