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My Parochial Town Part 5 - Fisticuffs at the Black Swan and a look to the future.
All towns have and need key meeting places that evolve over time and become centres for social and commercial activity and one of the...
Dec 13, 202411 min read


Sidebar - A Trip to Remember
May 28th 1914 saw the Welland Trustees take its annual trip "down below" into the waters of The Wash
Oct 2, 20244 min read


Sidebar - The Rearing of Geese in all its Cruelty
Every so often I will publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...
Sep 1, 20246 min read


Sidebar - 1876 Harvest Past - A Lesson from History?
Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following is exactly 148 years ago and will...
Aug 22, 20249 min read


Sidebar - the failed escapologist of Moulton
Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of "Marsh Fen and Town" This account of a failed escapologist in Moulton,...
Aug 7, 20241 min read


Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond
I sat down and started writing a book in March 2022. The idea of a book was spawned just over thirty years ago when I was a young bank...
May 1, 20242 min read

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