What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

The local anger to this was huge and Professor Beard suffered an horrendous personal attack and an inappropriate backlash. In the meantime,

I have emphasized earlier that the countryside of The Wash and the Fens inland effectively serve large towns and cities. The fisherman...

Urban bias could be seen as an antidote to parochialism. But, like parochialism, urban bias can be bad thing as well as good. Urban bias...

Years ago I had to go the Canary Wharf, London for a three hour meeting. I had always had many preconceptions of London many to its...

All towns have and need key meeting places that evolve over time and become centres for social and commercial activity and one of the...

On the corner of Red Lion Street facing  New Road was and still is Sheddy Turner’s fish and chip shop. Turner’s are descended from a...

At the corner of New Road was the grand stone building that was originally built by and occupied by S & G Kingston auctioneers, land...

Just across the entrance to Chapel Lane from the White Swan  was Tom Fryer’s shop, a gents outfitters and tailors. As a child I remember...

I expect that many Spaldonian readers of my age and older (born 1967) may look at the heading I’ve chosen "My Parochial Town" and start...

Men of the Town of Spalding - Introduction As I look at Spalding I enter a personal area that is deliberately self-indulgent. However, it...

The town centres of Spalding, Boston and Wisbech saw massive changes to their town centres dominated by a new generation of migrants.

Migration of people has been at the core of shaping Spalding and its surrounding area physically, economically and socially. This I feel...

Of the four businesses I have chosen as the pillars upon which Spalding’s food industry was built George Adams & Son is the only one that...

In 1935 in Calthrop’s solicitors office in Spalding the first Geest Company, Geest Horticultural Products was incorporated under the...

November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...

Modern sugar production from sugar beet owes its origins in the Prussian Empire of 1801 which saw the first beet sugar factory opened in...

When I  describe Spalding as an industrial town people are generally surprised. We have an image of an industrial town being depicted as...

Dairy produce was primarily in the form of butter in market towns. If you cannot sell milk for immediate consumption it needs to be...

In the case of markets, maintaining confidence in the market was key. The nineteenth century saw an increase in control of livestock...