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Ingoldmells maps
Historic maps of Ingoldmells and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ingoldmells maps
Ingoldmells area books
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Memories of Ingoldmells
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My First Home
I lived in the prefab you can see on the right of this photograph, 4 Windsor Crescent, and moved there when I was one years old. I loved living there and have many happy memories. Already the council houses were being built behind.. and the one you can see, the Barkers lived in..... He was a builder and the three children were Ian and twins, Barry and Barbara. The Pimpertons were the owners of the post office and general store. The field opposite, was owned by the Stows - a farmer. Down the lane to the left, was the village school and to the right, was the village church where I eventually got married in in 1967.
First Film
When the cinema opened, the local school children were walked up Sea Lane to see the first film. It was Cockleshell Heros....
Teenage Memories
The building on the right was a cafe and had a jukebox where, the local teenages used to go and listen to the latest releases. Of course, in those days, we were not supposed to go there, but times they were a changing.
The For Front Pathway
This is the pathway to the cottage, my grandparents - the Wilsons, and aunt and uncle lived in. It used to be a farmhouse, but was split into two attached dwellings. On the left, there was a snack bar, and I spent many an hour helping my aunt plate up' full english breakfasts' in the late 50's early 60's. There was a field at the side, where I used to drive my two cousins around in my father´s car. I must have been about 13..... The Wilkinsons, lived in the house you can see across the road. The old cottage had a ghost .... The ghost used to go up the staircase, in the middle of the house, and then go into the bedroom, sit on the bed, and take his boots off. My cousin would never sleep in that bedroom.
Lincolnshire memories
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."
Childhood Memories
I have spent many happy holidays in Chapel. My Dad had two weeks holiday from the Prudential and he and Mum and I would head off on hols. I specifically remember fossil hunting on Chapel Point beach, there I also learned to swim. I remember too the esplanade, there was a walk through with an amusement arcade and the best fish and chip shop in the world, I can smell it now. Remeber when the first submarine went under the icecap, well I still have my tin toy submarine. As a child the sights and smells and colours and atmosphere of the place have all remained with me. We used to stay at Mrs Tingles guest house and petrol was in short supply - I had to walk from there to the beach, a very long way as a 5 year old. My Father also spent his holidays as child with my grandparents, and they camped. I have the milk can that Dad used to fetch the milk in... 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.
