Louth
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Louth books (14 available)
Lincoln Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Grimsby - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Grantham Town and City Memories
Paperback
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Topliss drapers 1882-1975
I wonder if anyone remembers Topliss, 16 Mercer Row? It was there until 1975 when it was taken over by Boyes. It was probably the last shop in Britain to have a "cash railway" for taking customers' payments to the cashier and returning the change. The money travelled in a hollow wooden ball, like a croquet ball cut in half. There is a photo on The Cash Railway Website. Cash ball systems were generally supreseded by overhead wire or pneumatic tube systems.
Contributed by Andrew Buxton
Lincolnshire memories
Topliss drapers 1882-1975
I wonder if anyone remembers Topliss, 16 Mercer Row? It was there until 1975 when it was taken over by Boyes. It was probably the last shop in Britain to have a "cash railway" for taking customers' payments to the cashier and returning the change. The money travelled in a hollow wooden ball, like a croquet ball cut in half. There is a photo on The Cash Railway Website. Cash ball systems were generally supreseded by overhead wire or pneumatic tube systems.
A memory of Louth contributed by Andrew Buxton
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
is this the watch tower
I wonder if anyone can tell me if the tall black object in the distance in this photo is the coastguard watch tower which was at the top of Sea Lane throught the war and into the sixties or seventies. My grandfather was an auxiliary coastguard at Saltfleet during the war before moving to Donna Nook. My sister and I spent many holidays with my grandparents in South Somercotes and for some reason the coastguard tower remains an abiding image for us but we have no pictures of it. When I returned to Saltfleet a few years ago after an abscence of nearly 30 years I was struck by how the once sandy beach has changed totally and is now green! ...read more here
A memory of Saltfleet contributed by Janice Edwards
Extracts From Louth & Lincolnshire books
Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds. Its revival in the late 18th and early 19th centuries resulted in some fine town building and re-fronting of earlier buildings. Mercer Row is a good example, and the Georgian shop window to the right survives intact. The town is more famous, though, for its superb and grand church, crowned by its 295 feet high spire, built in the early 1500s at a cost of £305.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds. Its revival in the late 18th and early 19th centuries resulted in some fine town building and re-fronting of earlier buildings. Mercer Row is a good example, and the Georgian shop window to the right survives intact. The town is more famous, though, for its superb and grand church, crowned by its 295 feet high spire, built in the early 1500s at a cost of £305.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants. The Whyte Swanne of 1612 is still there, and Peacocks have replaced the long-time Louth outfitters of Lawson & Stockdale at No 47(centre). Peacocks also expanded into the Prudential next door. Wilkinson’s took over from Fine Fare (right) at the same time as the decorated art work on the pediment above the blank front was lost. Then comes Superdrug on the corner of Vickers Lane (formerly Post Office Lane), and then Argos. Barclay’s Bank is still at 64 Eastgate (extreme right). As the railways since Lord Beeching’s cuts do not visit Louth, the sign (left) pointing to the station has also gone.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".
The NatWest (left) has not changed. The Central Café (facing us, left) has gone, to be replaced by New Look. The accountants Forrester Boyd & Co at 7 Corn Market next door have been replaced by Hanson’s the bakers, and next door is now the Louth Vision Centre. After the entrance to the Market Hall (1866-67) comes Lunn Poly. Long established locally, Pocklingtons the bakers began in nearby Withern in 1924, and have been here since 1996.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".
The Greenwich Meridian sign on the wall between Nos 105 and 107 is well worth finding - it was placed there in 1948. Both clocks have been taken away from this busy shopping street, but Milletts Army and Navy Store (right) is still there. Even the Hewitt’s sign on the side of the Jolly Sailor beyond has gone; the shop is now Vogue, and in 2004 is painted a very bright colour. The corner shop on the left is Superdrug, and the Pack Horse Hotel is still there. The pedestrian crossing has been moved to be more convenient for shoppers, but not for car drivers!
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".