Addlethorpe, Lincolnshire
Addlethorpe photos
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Addlethorpe maps
Historic maps of Addlethorpe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Addlethorpe maps
Addlethorpe books
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Memories of Addlethorpe
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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... [more]
Shared on 01 October 2006
Lincolnshire memories
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.... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2006
Did anyone know my grandparents?
John and May Mcgahan worked in a Chapel-St-Leonards' chipshop for Ben? My mother was called Margaret Mcgahan. Does anyone remember them? Did you work with them? I would like to find out more.
I have moved away now but my brother runs a cafe at Cafe St Leonards.
Shared on 30 August 2009
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,... [more]
Shared on 24 July 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 26 January 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 14 February 2007
Remembering my Best Friend, Andy Gardiner
While studying at Westminster Technical College, Hotel School just off Victoria Street in London I became good friends with Andy Gardiner whose parents ran a small hotel, probably one of these pictured here, in the North Parade of the front at Skegness.
Andy invited me up at some point to meet his parents and sister, he being accompanied by his... [more]
Shared on 21 May 2008
Extracts From Addlethorpe & Lincolnshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Addlethorpe, inspired by Frith photos.
St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe. Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'. Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork. The marsh, the land immediately behind the sand hills, was used... [more]
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St Nicholas' Church and the village are now bypassed from the busy A52 that thunders along towards Mablethorpe. Locally the church is known as 'the Queen of the Marsh'. Its style is classed as early Perpendicular; the chancel was taken down in 1706 and the arch filled in with brickwork. The marsh, the land immediately behind the sand hills, was used... [more]
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Skegness Town and City Memories
The Crazy Golf Course is still there; so are the hotels and flats fronting South Parade, including the Lakeside Hotel on the extreme right.
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