Rendered patterns of birds, shells, hobby horses and boats that he duly painted are the work of local handyman Jack Cooper.

If I had my way he would have a statue in the middle of Spalding.

1979 saw 27 people come forward witnessing UFO’s in the Spalding area

The Knickebein Beam or Nickobein Beam resulted in two significant bombings of Spalding by the Luftwaffe

Inspectors Caban and Wackett were hardly pressed while defending the parachute party and were compelled to resort to fisticuffs

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”...