Forge Timeline
…was servicing the boats at Spalding Port 1899 – The Dodd Family take ownership of the Forge 20th Century – 3 Generations of the Dodd Family worked the forge 1960′s…
…was servicing the boats at Spalding Port 1899 – The Dodd Family take ownership of the Forge 20th Century – 3 Generations of the Dodd Family worked the forge 1960′s…
…Memories 3 Generation of The Dodd family Blacksmithing Geoff Dodd’s memories of life around the Forge Geoff War Flower Parade Construction Social Changes and Parade Tour of the Forge Day…
Geoff Dodd in this interview talks about his grandfather account books and explains their contents. He also talks about the changes in the type of work. https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/VN680020.mp3 https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/VN680021.mp3 These recordings…
A few photos from Robert BESTER’s collection marking the occasion 9 years ago when we formally opened Chain Bridge Forge as a museum. These photos show Geoff Dodd who used…
…The Construction of Flower Parade Floats – Part 4 https://www.heritagesouthholland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/VN680040.mp3 This series of interviews explain how Geoff Dodd and a team of others constructed Flower Parade Floats.This series of interviews…
…Robert Dodd shoeing a horse Geoff Dodd shoeing a horse in the early 1950’s Geoff Dodd shoeing a Horse Renovation work at the…
…3 Generation of The Dodd family Blacksmithing Geoff Dodd’s memories of life around the Forge Geoff War Flower Parade Construction Social Changes and Parade Tour of the Forge Day Books…
…Mr Dodd’s son, Geoff Dodd’s father, reportedly fetched the fish for Frank Knipe from the railway station in a little hand cart for a 1/2d or a 1d a day…
…enthusiasm of all contributors. Geoff Dodd Talks about his life and times as a blacksmith and proprietor of the Chainbridge Forge. Blacksmithing and the Dodd family Construction of Floats…
…in WW 2. The thing that interested me about this photograph was it illustrated the memory of Geoff Dodd talking about the abattoir in Laws Yard behind the High St….
Another gem from Geoff Dodd’s Archive. The booklet list the businesses in Spalding and Mrs Tointon memories in I guess early 1900’s. The link takes you to the Memories of…
…oral history given by Geoff Dodd and talks about beggars in the locality. if you would like to listen to the oral history or read the transcript click HERE Tramps…
Geoff Dodd with his WW1 Douglas motorcycle. Click on the link to read the article AOS D 0222 Spalding-relic-of-the-First-World-War…
In Geoff Dodd’s papers he had collected many of the Flower Parade programmes through the years. This website has decided to make them available. The initial programmes displayed are from…
…known local blacksmith Geoff Dodd, using working drawings created by Dutchman Kees van Driel. It was fun to guess what the completed floats would be. Some resembled animals, others were…
…i remember going their as a littel boy geoff dodds made my dad a small trailor to go behind his ransomes mg crawler . geoff did show me around the…
…owner Geoff Dodd who wanted it to become a place of education and to tell the story of his life. The forge has created a large online local history collection…
The Forge inherited a collection of Flower Parade Programmes from the late Geoff Dodd who manufactured many of the Flower Parade Floats over 40 plus years and features in many…
…do if an air raid occurred. Geoff Dodd was given the task of sticking gummed brown paper strips in a grid on the classroom windows, to reduce the risk of…
A clipping found in Geoff’s Dodd archive (Lincoln Free Press?). The house was called Halmer Grange in Stonegate and was reputed to be one of the oldest houses in Spalding…
