Long Sutton, Lincolnshire

The changes in lifestyles

I was in school in Long Sutton and worked part time for Phillip Stow the butcher. I had to go round customers' houses in the morning and take orders for their meat requirements.  I then went to school. After school I had to deliver the orders on a trade bicycle with a basket on the front.

The local supermarket was... [more]

First impresstion of Long Sutton

I first came to Long Sutton after my husband was given the job of being the local'bobby'We came to live in the local police station, which was an office room in the house. My first impresstion of Long Sutton was how slow the pace of life was after comming from a large city of Birmingham where the pace of life was... [more]

Lincolnshire Pocket Album

Moving east along B-roads zig-zagging through the Fens, we reach Long Sutton. This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave. In the Market Place at first sight all looks broadly unchanged, but since 1950 the Bull has been entirely rebuilt in rough replica, and the Crown and Woolpack has had its stucco removed, but... [more]

Lincolnshire Photographic Memories

Moving east along B-roads zig-zagging through the Fens, we reach Long Sutton. This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave. In the Market Place at first sight all looks broadly unchanged, but since 1950 The Bull has been entirely rebuilt in rough replica, and the Crown and Woolpack has had its stucco removed, but... [more]

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]