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.

“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

This post looks at the first umbrella in Spalding and it's later day droogs.

Saying “going down below” is not referring to a trip to Australia, or even a sex act, but rather a trip down The Wash.

What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes.  My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....

It is ironic that whilst typically being the driest area of the country in terms of rainfall the Fens of South Lincolnshire are also...

All towns have and need key meeting places that evolve over time and become centres for social and commercial activity and one of the...

On the corner of Red Lion Street facing  New Road was and still is Sheddy Turner’s fish and chip shop. Turner’s are descended from a...

I expect that many Spaldonian readers of my age and older (born 1967) may look at the heading I’ve chosen "My Parochial Town" and start...

Migration of people has been at the core of shaping Spalding and its surrounding area physically, economically and socially. This I feel...