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fun times
i have fond memories of sleaford staying with my grand parents on st giles avenue , going to the wreck to play going swimming and best of all going to the market to see all the live stock .My dad would tell is all what he got up too as a child where he lived as a boy,jubilee road i think (ken gash). i have an old photo of my great grandad out side a public house in sleaford would love to know where about it is or if its still there
Contributed by becky wilson
Lincolnshire memories
fun times
i have fond memories of sleaford staying with my grand parents on st giles avenue , going to the wreck to play going swimming and best of all going to the market to see all the live stock .My dad would tell is all what he got up too as a child where he lived as a boy,jubilee road i think (ken gash). i have an old photo of my great grandad out side a public house in sleaford would love to know where about it is or if its still there
A memory of Sleaford contributed by becky wilson
Williamson Family
My father was John Henry Williamson known as Harry. He lived with his father John William Williamson and mother Ada Florence nee Rylatt. My mother Florence Thorpe Catton was from Yorkshire and met Dad at Metheringham Feast.
The family lived in Burton Pedwardine at the time of my parents marriage in 1933 and Harry and Florence went to live with John and Ada Williamson for the first few years. They had three children while living there. John, Mary and Joan.
My father and Grandfather were Agricultural Labourers. Dad and Mum moved to Fishtoft Boston about 1937.
I have not been able to find out anymore about their time in Burton Pedwardine so would be interested in reading any memories ...read more here
A memory of Burton Pedwardine contributed by Gillian Emerton
The owner of Culverthorpe
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Extracts From Sleaford & Lincolnshire books
Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed. This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed. This view looks north along South Gate past the extraordinarily grandiose statue in its towering medieval-style spired canopy to a 19th-century MP, Henry Handley, which dates from 1850.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford’s prosperity, with the castellated house on the corner of Handley Street, dated 1907, as its last gasp. To the south of the railway are the former Maltings, built in the 1890s on a colossal scale, and an industrial monument to one of Sleaford’s major industries.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire’s finest churches. Here, where South Gate meets North Gate, are the town’s finest commercial buildings, such as the HSBC bank of 1903 on the left and the Sessions House of 1830 in Gothick style with a pointed arched ground arcade.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
Sleaford is built on the banks of the River Slea which splits into two branches no more than streams in size. This view looks east along West Banks, with its numerous small bridges, to the mainly late Victorian artisan cottages (some are dated 1901). To the south are further artisan terraces and short side streets. The early 19th-century cottages on the left were lost in the 1960s.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".