It was moist – it was not set. It was very soft and it gave off a very foul odour. It was beef

excerpt from a letter of 1850 shows how the road conditions can really get on your tits:

In 1875 Spalding had 279 drunkards. Even Grantham only reaches 103, whilst Boston is credited with but 85.

Apparently the smell of hemp wafting across the streets of Spalding isnot new.

Mrs Proctor was a well-to-do lady that lived in Welland Hall, a large house now occupied by Ayscoughfee School. Her band was popular at...

In 1962 King Hussein of Jordan was passing through Spalding and stopped to have breakfast.

“I’ve fed half the children in Spalding,” was Fred Turner’s boast

The May Day Statute was time to get gloriously drunk, and fight out any old quarrel which you happened to have had.

Tulipan was a character of legend being a little chap that stowed away in the baggage train that brought the first tulip to Europe.

“With bad teeth never was a woman beautiful. With good teeth never was a woman ugly.”

it is possibly surprising to see Spalding celebrate the birth of socialist Labour politician George Shepherd in this Tory stronghold.

A man who did not wish to be named was watching TV when he “felt a vibration in his legs and noticed a toy shaking on the settee beside him.

Erecting this building was quite a feat requiring 22 miles of scaffolding

“Fire! Fire! Fire! Such, no doubt, was the alarm given in the year 1715 when the red crawling serpent destroyed much of the town centre

Saturday 10th September 1842 saw a massive thunder storm hit Spalding with much lightning, at that time referred to as “electric fluid”...

In 1723 a duel was fought in the White Hart yard, Spalding and Mr. William Emerson Lee received his death blow.

On May 29th the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding held an event titled Barbeque 67 featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream...and more

“Alas poor Robin Barnes”

The last person that stood in the pillory was Susan Meeks, by order of Dr. Shaw, for keeping a house of ill-fame in the year 1787

"I was a weak and puny fellow when I came to the Fens" William Booth