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Bicker maps
Historic maps of Bicker and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bicker maps
Bicker photos
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Lincolnshire Living Memoires
Paperback
£14
Grantham Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Lincoln Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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This is a very significant picture to me although taken a good many years after we left high street for Mill Lane. My sister, Hilda and I were both born in one of the houses just beyond the white building, in our time that was the bakery, run by a Mr Wilson and family. (Hilda was born in 1918 and I... [more]
Shared on 13 July 2006
My grandparents, Charles Herbert and Maud Mary Epton, lived at 3 (later 11) Council Houses, Brothertoft, and my childhood holidays were always spent here. My dad was born in that house, as was his brother, and my grandparents must have lived there nigh on 50 years, and both of them, along with several other relatives, are buried in Brothertoft churchyard. Dad,... [more]
Shared on 24 August 2009
Lived in Surfleet Reservoir until joining he Royal Navy in 1949. Now writing a book and am seeking more information regarding the localle
Shared on 15 February 2009
I was born at Church Corner, Langrick, in one of a pair of tied cottages. My godparents lived next door. My mother was Joyce May Cargill, and she was living with her parents, Eva Kate and George Herbert White at the time of my birth. my father was Joseph William Cargill. He was in the Army, fighting in the second World... [more]
Shared on 26 March 2008
Extracts From Bicker & Lincolnshire books
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Boston - A History & Celebration
Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise. There were brewers and tanners as well as shipbuilders, sailmakers, rope makers, coachbuilders and saddlers. One coachbuilder was John Mumford who had left the town but returned in 1834 and set up in business in West Street. He lapsed into... [more]
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Boston - A History & Celebration
The national government also developed local offices. A central post office had been built in High Street in 1882-85, but in 1907 it was replaced by the present building in Wide Bargate which was soon extended to include the sorting office and the telephone exchange, where the author's mother worked for a while. Later public buildings included the employment exchange in West Street, built in 1939 in place of rented... [more]
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Boston - A History & Celebration
Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln. He became a leading member of the Catholic Church in England and was part of delegations to Church Councils in Europe. In 1414 he attended the Council of Constance and was appointed papal chamberlain, and returned to England as an envoy of the Pope. Fleming was in Italy again in 1419... [more]
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