In 1935 in Calthrop’s solicitors office in Spalding the first Geest Company, Geest Horticultural Products was incorporated under the...

November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...

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

When I  describe Spalding as an industrial town people are generally surprised. We have an image of an industrial town being depicted as...

The most visible and usually the longest lasting vestige of a market town are the market stalls. This is the case with Spalding and...

That the port of Spalding had an old and active market is undoubted. I have found no reference to an early charter awarding market rights...

Spalding is where I was born and where I have lived most of my life to date. I state “feeding from beyond the Fens” because this has many...

May 28th 1914 saw the Welland Trustees take its annual trip "down below" into the waters of The Wash

Spalding policemen assumed a man was drunk after he loaded his pipe with pieces of pork pie and started to smoke it!

Every so often I publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following is exactly 148 years ago and will...

If you wish a child to get interested in nature one of the most accessible areas for a child are insects. They are everywhere and with...

It is possibly one of the indicators of a river's health is the thriving of an apex predator like the otter. In the 2020's the otter is...

Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...

You may have heard the phrase “wooden dollars” when referring to spurious values of such items as natural capital values. The term refers...

Today the 13th of May 2023 heralds the return of the Spalding Tulip Parade. I now live in Northumberland, where my tulips flower much...

As the Stone of Destiny, otherwise known as the Stone of Scone, winds its way from Scotland to nestle below the King's posterior on the...

In 2003 I wrote a letter to the local press “Wake Up Spalding we are being short-changed”. About two weeks later I was approached by an...

In my home town of Spalding as a child in the 1970’s I saw a great growth in car ownership as it became an item only a few could afford...