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27. The Knickebein Beam
The Knickebein Beam or Nickobein Beam resulted in two significant bombings of Spalding by the Luftwaffe
Feb 125 min read
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How Will President Trump View The Arsenal of Democracy?
As we enter 2025 this is the key question that the world is waiting for, especially in the Ukraine. The one thing we can rely upon with...
Dec 5, 20243 min read
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C F Elsden & Son
Men of the Town of Spalding - Introduction As I look at Spalding I enter a personal area that is deliberately self-indulgent. However, it...
Dec 2, 202429 min read
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Migrations in the Twentieth Century
The town centres of Spalding, Boston and Wisbech saw massive changes to their town centres dominated by a new generation of migrants.
Nov 29, 202442 min read
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George Adams & Son
Of the four businesses I have chosen as the pillars upon which Spalding’s food industry was built George Adams & Son is the only one that...
Nov 22, 20246 min read
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Spalding Canning Factory
November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...
Nov 15, 20243 min read
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Japanese Chicken Sexers and their experience in World War 2 Britain
Many are aware of the World War 2 internment of Japanese in the USA due to the experience of George Takei and the play Allegiance. Few...
Nov 10, 20245 min read
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From Marsh to Fen and Field - Albert Seaton
In 2007 my late father-in-law John Wright pulled some old farm diaries out of his shed to show me. He allowed me to borrow them and I...
Aug 16, 202423 min read
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