Stamford, Spalding And Boston Bank
My Great Grandfather was Edward Ashton, he was born at Kirkby House in Harrington Hafleet, Lincolnshire in 1850. In transcribing his son's memoirs he talks about moving back to Louth about 1889 when his father gave up farming at the Grange Farm outside Louth and accepted a position with the Stamford, Spalding and Boston Bank. The lived above the bank and the 1891 Census shows them at 62 Eastgate. He and a younger brother originally had a room at the front across from a Market until their puppet shows on the blinds at night were drawn to the attention of their parents. The SS&B bank was bought out by their London partners, Barclays early in the 1900s. In this picture, taken at the corner of Eastgate and Vickers Lane, you can see the Barclays Bank at the extreme left as Market Place intersects with Eastgate.
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