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The Fisherman’s Arms at Pode Hole
This postcard was dated 1906. The original pub has gone and is replaced by a new pub which was built in 1964. The chimney in the background was connected with the pumping station which was built in 1806. Its now the workshop of the Welland & Deeping Drainage Board and has lost its chimney
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I can remember the old Fisherman’s Arms. My grandfather, Frank Stimson, was at one time accountant to the Deeping Fen and Pinchbeck Internal Drainage Board, told me that the Fisherman’s Arms, and the Vernatts Inn which stood by Sharp’s Bridge on Pinchbeck Road, were both owned by the Board. The chimney in the picture would have been for the boiler for the beam engine which was the major pumping engine on the site. Alas, despite appeals that it should be preserved, I believe the beam engine was cut up for scrap. Fortunately, the Pinchbeck Engine was saved.
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I can remember the old Fisherman’s Arms. My grandfather, Frank Stimson, was at one time accountant to the Deeping Fen and Pinchbeck Internal Drainage Board, told me that the Fisherman’s Arms, and the Vernatts Inn which stood by Sharp’s Bridge on Pinchbeck Road, were both owned by the Board. The chimney in the picture would have been for the boiler for the beam engine which was the major pumping engine on the site. Alas, despite appeals that it should be preserved, I believe the beam engine was cut up for scrap. Fortunately, the Pinchbeck Engine was saved.