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Berrills and The Ramskin Inn, Spalding
A photo of Berrills and The Ramskin Inn, Spalding seen from the riverside.  Dated 1970’s
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It was my aunt and uncle Percy and Ethel Christmas who were at the Ramskin and they had a son called Raymond. I can’t remember ever meeting Raymond I suppose I must have done and to be honest I can’t remember ever meeting Percy. Aunty Ethel my mother’s sister used to come to our house a lot when we were children. I can only remember her being at Spring gardens so I don’t know when they left the Ramskin.
Raymond Christmas was my Dad, Percy & Ethel were my Grandparents. My Brother and I visited them at the Ramskin many times during the 60’s& 70’s (we were from London where Ray moved after a time in the RAF). Both Percy/Ethel and my Great Grandfather before them (can’t remember his name) ran the Ramskin.
My memory (vague) tells me Percy retired in the early 80’s and they moved to Spring Gardens. No one else took over the Ramskin and it decayed badly until it was demolished in the 80’s.- a terrible shame for such an amazing, very old pub/coaching inn.
Percy sadly died in 1983, Ethel survived until 1989/90. Ray moved back to Lincolnshire (Bourne) in 1988 & died there in 2000.
I have still got a couple of old artefacts from their time at The Ramskin – including a huge Manns Bitter green ashtray and a couple of other bits.
I have many dim but good memories of life at the pub, including my Brother and I fishing out of the bay window shown in the picture.
Hi Ian. I have only just seen your post. We didn’t know where Aunty Ethel went. One day she was at Spring gardens and my mum (Lucy Thompson) went round and the house was locked up and we didn’t know where she had gone or what happened to her. That was what we were told and sometimes time change memories. As far as we knew nobody on aunt Ethel’s side of the family knew where she went. I was always sad not to know where she was. She lost four siblings in one year once and I wrote to her to tell her because nobody else had. She attended( I think it was auntie Beats funeral) My mother Lucy died on Boxing Day of 1999. I would have loved to have met Ray he was my cousin after all. Thank you for letting me know what happened to Aunty Ethel it means a lot to me I will pass this on to my cousins.
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It was my aunt and uncle Percy and Ethel Christmas who were at the Ramskin and they had a son called Raymond. I can’t remember ever meeting Raymond I suppose I must have done and to be honest I can’t remember ever meeting Percy. Aunty Ethel my mother’s sister used to come to our house a lot when we were children. I can only remember her being at Spring gardens so I don’t know when they left the Ramskin.
Love your memories. Please tell us more. Regards Geoff
Raymond Christmas was my Dad, Percy & Ethel were my Grandparents. My Brother and I visited them at the Ramskin many times during the 60’s& 70’s (we were from London where Ray moved after a time in the RAF). Both Percy/Ethel and my Great Grandfather before them (can’t remember his name) ran the Ramskin.
My memory (vague) tells me Percy retired in the early 80’s and they moved to Spring Gardens. No one else took over the Ramskin and it decayed badly until it was demolished in the 80’s.- a terrible shame for such an amazing, very old pub/coaching inn.
Percy sadly died in 1983, Ethel survived until 1989/90. Ray moved back to Lincolnshire (Bourne) in 1988 & died there in 2000.
I have still got a couple of old artefacts from their time at The Ramskin – including a huge Manns Bitter green ashtray and a couple of other bits.
I have many dim but good memories of life at the pub, including my Brother and I fishing out of the bay window shown in the picture.
Hi Ian. I have only just seen your post. We didn’t know where Aunty Ethel went. One day she was at Spring gardens and my mum (Lucy Thompson) went round and the house was locked up and we didn’t know where she had gone or what happened to her. That was what we were told and sometimes time change memories. As far as we knew nobody on aunt Ethel’s side of the family knew where she went. I was always sad not to know where she was. She lost four siblings in one year once and I wrote to her to tell her because nobody else had. She attended( I think it was auntie Beats funeral) My mother Lucy died on Boxing Day of 1999. I would have loved to have met Ray he was my cousin after all. Thank you for letting me know what happened to Aunty Ethel it means a lot to me I will pass this on to my cousins.
Slight correction to my comment above. My memory failed me on a couple of dates: Ethel died in 1999, not 89 & Ray in 2001.