Spilsby
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Spilsby books (14 available)
Lincoln Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Grimsby - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Grantham Town and City Memories
Paperback
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Post Office, East Kirkby
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A memory of East Kirkby contributed by Janet Humphrey
Calceby ... my soul mate.
Calceby... I came to live here in 1947, not a country girl by birth, having lived in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, for the first fourteen years of my life. This hamlet was to become my home for the next three years, isolated and buried in the heart of the wolds. I came to know every part of the landscape, and walking very soon became my hobby. My interest in history became larger than life because here I was surrounded with evidence of a long forgotten past.
The ruined St Andrews Church on the top of the hill was my playground, and most days I would spend my time exploring every nook and cranny, and under the turf surrounding the walls lay ...read more here
A memory of Calceby contributed by Barbara johnson
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."
A memory of Addlethorpe contributed by Linda Bailey
Grandfather
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. They moved to Nottingham but returned in 1934. I would love to know if anyone knows of them. Ann Stephenson
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Extracts From Spilsby & Lincolnshire books
The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman’s. L G Moden next door, a baker of superb bread and mouth-watering Swiss rolls, is no longer there and has been replaced by a Little Italy Restaurant. Shaw’s Tea Room is on the right - they advertise jazz nights.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".
How are the mighty fallen! The petrol station in the centre of the market place was the Town Hall with an open arcaded ground floor, the arches now glazed. It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate. The subterranean public conveniences by the Ovaltine poster have now been replaced by a neat hipped roofed above-ground facility.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
Dominating the Market Place is this dignified bronze statue, erected in 1861, of Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer, born in Spilsby in 1786. His last expedition found the North–West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, were trapped in the Arctic ice.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Dominating the Market Place is this dignified bronze statue, erected in 1861, of Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer, born in Spilsby in 1786. His last expedition found the North- West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, were trapped in the Arctic ice.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
This was the main route through the town until the by-pass came into being. The tower of St James’ Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour. Inside are memorials to Sir John Franklin, the great explorer; the Willoughby Chapel contains many tombs, including one in alabaster of John 3rd Baron Willoughby, a distinguished knight who fought under Edward III and the Black Prince.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".