You are here:
Addlethorpe
Addlethorpe maps
Historic maps of Addlethorpe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Addlethorpe maps
Addlethorpe area books
Displaying 1 of 8 books about Addlethorpe and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Addlethorpe
Displaying a selection of personal
memories of Addlethorpe.
Add your memory of Addlethorpe
or of a photo of Addlethorpe.
King's Head Inn
My great grandfather, John Foster Merril (1840-1844), was the innkeeper at the Kings Head Inn in Addlethorpe. His son, John Booth Merrill, wrote this in his memoirs: "I, John Booth Merrill, was born at Addlethorpe ... at the King's Head tavern on July 6, 1866. My father's brother Thomas Merrill visited us from the USA. It was said during the celebration I got very drunk and my mother decided a tavern was no place to raise a family. She got my father to move on a farm near the Addlethorpe flour mill, a round 6 story brick windmill."
Lincolnshire memories
My Childhood in Hogsthorpe
I was born in 1951 and in April 1953 our family moved to Hogsthorpe. My parents were worried as that was the year of the floods and they had put furniture in our new home. Although the police would not let them through to check on things, fortunately, Hogsthorpe was not flooded. So we moved in and in September of 1956 I started at the primary school. This building, however, was destroyed by fire. It was then a very small village-everyone knew everyone and the school had 60 pupils(it could have been less) in it.
My address then was Ashleigh, West End and my late father ran a poultry farm. I did notice Betty Kirkham's name on the Hogsthorpe village website and if you speak to her, I am sure that she will remember us. I used to go to her to have my hair permed.
I was at school with some of the Jinks family and Sylvia was the same age... Read more
Grandfather
I remember going to Hogsthorpe to see some family member. They had the butchers shop. My grandad was Euclid Stephenson. Born1875. Lived on the High Street, he worked as a postman,and was a member of the post office choir, who went to "the Holyland" singing.There is a carving on a house with the Stephenson name on it. Euclid married Lucy Cutts. They moved to Nottingham but returned in 1934. I would love to know if anyone knows of them. Ann Stephenson
Hogsthorpe Farms.
I have fond memories of Hogsthorpe in 1959. I worked on a farm just outside the village, I think the area was called Slackholme End. The farm belonged to Silas Willey and next door was a bigger farm belonging to Taylors. In busy times both farms would work together, haymaking, threshing, potato picking etc. I think Taylors had some land across the road called Greens as well. I did most of the milking, the milk collected in churns by Eastons from Alford. I did early starts from Bilsby where I lived and I used to push bike it until I got a motorbike. I also did most of the tractor driving, a grey diesel Fergie whose reg number I forget. I can't remember any names from the village except North, but I do recall using the "Top House" rather than the "Bottom House" for a drink after work (I was only 16, nobody bothered). What was the name of the "Top House"? I would like to know. And also what... Read more
Miss Canning,
Miss Canning did not have the haberdashery store, that was Mrs Graham and her shop was next door to Stows Stores. In the back was a little tea room and a girl called Lilly Bodice worked with her. The shop and cottage she lived in was left to Lilly when Mrs Graham passed away. Miss Canning sold the papers, sweets, cigarettes and the stall outside had fruit and veg. One year she sold fireworks, only the one year as the village lads pinched most of them. I have to admit I was one of those lads and she was my Aunt. Happy days. Stinsons Moter Services was the local bus way before the Lincolnshire Road Car came to the village. Their buses were red and the Road Car were green.
Chapel in The 1950s And 1960s.
When I was a child in the 1950s and 1960s we went to chapel every year and stayed in a bungalow named FAIRVIEW which is on the corner of
Sunningdale Drive and South Road. Across the road lived an AA man with his motor bike and sidecar, further round South Road lived a blind man who used to make wicker baskets etc. Another memory is the coffee bar opposite Millers Amusements, and going in for a Horlicks or milkshake and playing the juke box, they were very happy times for my brother and I. Now I have started, more and more memories are coming back so I will be writing again.
Happy Memories of Chapel St LLeonards
I have fond memories of our family holidays in Chapel St Leonards in the 1950s, it was also where some of my relatives lived and worked. I remember the giant fish that was washed up on the beach and I have a few old black and white photos of my family, including my grandma, sitting on the steps at Chapel Point, my grandma all dressed up with her coat and hat and my dad in his suit, shirt undone though! It was 'the attire for seaside holidays' in those days. My great-aunt had a boarding house on Anderby Lane, unfortunately the floods came over the bank and flooded the houses and she left and moved to Hogsthorpe. I remember climbing the sandy banks in front of the row of houses, to go down onto the dunes and down to the sea.
Later when I married we took our own kids to Chapel Point, lovely memories and a family tradition.
