That the port of Spalding had an old and active market is undoubted. I have found no reference to an early charter awarding market rights...

Spalding is where I was born and where I have lived most of my life to date. I state “feeding from beyond the Fens” because this has many...

By the early 1870’s Bourne was at a peak of activity which was matched by high employment activity nationally at that time.

When I worked in Holbeach there was an old boy used to come into town most market days from Holbeach St Marks by catching a lift with the...

I worked very little in Sutton Bridge with the office there being dominated by my then colleagues Annie Batuik and Les Hills. When I did...

“ I am here with my sister visiting this city. We are from Denmark and we think that the English people are very polite. Arriving to this...

Do the towns of the Fens serve the countryside? Or does the countryside serve the towns?  The American economist Jane Jacobs argued that...

“All criminal trials are about society, not just a case.” These words were written by the journalist and author Colin MacInnes in 1971....

In Spalding Parish Church there are two windows created by the eminent stained glass artist H. W. Harvey in 1966. Both are very bright...

The previous two pictures are of a pair of steam plough engines that my grandfather Frank Parish worked on. They were bought by the...

Improvements in the living conditions of farm labourers were slow and largely depended upon the willingness and abilities of the larger...

Agricultural Labour - increased mobility and increased concern over child labour and the employment of women. The increased mobility of...

In May 2019 a meter high statue was unveiled in Hall Place, Spalding commemorating the times when Spalding had a May Hiring Fair where...

“A Fenman’s dowry, threescore geese and a pelt.” This saying is an indication of the economic importance to many fenmen of geese and...

One of the great difficulties that farmers to this day experience is the supply of water. A 21 inch average with many years markedly...

In the graveyard at Gedney Hill churchyard is a modest gravestone that due to the ravages of time and growth of moss cannot quite be...

On 25th July 1766 The Derby Mercury carried the following notice: “To all who are Lovers of Nature’s wonderful productions. There is come...

In 2007 my late father-in-law John Wright pulled some old farm diaries out of his shed to show me. He allowed me to borrow them and I...

In 1991 I gave a talk to Long Sutton Friendship Club about the history of wildfowling in the area. Afterwards I was asked if I could meet...

“There is no  habitat in Lincolnshire which can truly be described as natural unless it be the sandy and muddy foreshores of the coast....