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

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

Spalding deserves the full Mark Steel treatment and with this in mind I offer 51 facets of Spalding’s life and history.