1989 saw the local bar called The Courtyard announce that it would have topless bars on a Sunday. Letters to the press ensued expressing...

The Victorian architect George Gilbert Scott designed over 800 buildings including St Pancras Station in London and numerous churches....

A teaser for cricket loving Mark Steel - it's all Dutch to me!

In 1846 local lawyer William Cartwright described Spalding  with each letter of its name as follows: Since first I knew thy muddy lakes...

Being flat it is possibly of no surprise that Spalding was very popular for cyclists from the 1880’s onwards. However the death of Mrs...

The Reform Act of 1867 gave many more Spalding householders the vote increasing the electorate more than three fold in many areas. There...

If you look up at the roof of Spalding Gentlemen’s Society museum you will see an old ship weather vane. For years this sat derelict in a...

In 1858 the town Improvement Commissioners broke up the Spalding Fire Brigade and formed a new one due to a disagreement between the men...

When I attended Spalding Grammer School in the early 1980’s the woodwork lessons were often accompanied by the background noise of...

William Tyler committed a ruthless murder for which he hung.

Captain Perry had committed a dereliction of duty by not setting fire to his ship

Few realise that he wrote and sold the best-selling guitar playing book of its day that outsold Bert Weedon's famous, " Play in a Day".

This rather shit fountain has courted controversy in the town centre for decades.

Not in itself unique to Spalding in the “Golden Age of Rail” on the 18th October 1848 Spalding’s railway station opened for the first...

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