8th Jun, 2020
Sandee lane memory of the Jubilee… with the Salvation Army band conducted by my grandad Benjamin Copland, unfortunately no year mentioned, but the banner says God Save the King and Queen.. enjoy. Probably King George V and Queen Mary Silver Jubilee...
8th Jun, 2020
9th May, 2020
There are lots of postcards of church parades in the market place, especially those taken from the Corn Exchange end. This one is from a slightly more unusual view (shame it’s been damaged and repaired). I love the gas lamp outside The Red Lion in the forground....
9th May, 2020
Thanks to Daniel Abbott and Cathi Elphee for the Crowland Town Photos East St, Crowland 1950’sCrowland Toilets near old vetsSing along groupBridge HardwareBelieved to be the end of the warNorth StCrowland Post Mill built 1790s worked for 100 years. Burnt down in...
8th May, 2020
VE Day – The photo with this post is a first hand account of a VE Day experience in Spalding from a letter my late mother Mary Rose wrote to her future husband who was stationed in Germany.My mother lived in Spalding Road Pinchbeck and worked in the offices of a...
8th May, 2020
75 years ago today Long Sutton celebrated the end of world war 2 in Europe. Looking through the Civic Society archives I wondered how we could remember the occasion and looked to A History of Long Sutton by FW & BA Robinson. The Civic Society have the manuscript...
