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Life on the Farm at Kettlethorpe
We moved to Park Farm Kettlethorpe when I was 7. The family at this time was reduced to Mum and Dad, Eileen, Brian, Maureen and Gillian. At first we lived in a semi detatched house at the top of the lane leading down to the Farm. Neighbours were Mr and Mrs Button with daughters Glenys and Susan and Mr and Mrs Sherbourne. Dad was promoted to Farm Forman so we moved down the the main farm house.
This had a small kitchen added on to the main house. In it was a copper over a brick fireplace for washing. Mum had a mangle with large wooden rollers. The washing was washed in the boiling water and had to be lifted ...read more here
A memory of Kettlethorpe contributed by Gillian Emerton
Growing Up
My father was employed as the farm foreman at Park Farm, Kettlethorpe for several years up until his death in 1960. We lived in the farmhouse down a lane about half a mile from the A57 main road. I went to school at Saxilby, my younger sisters to Newton on Trent. I must have been about 12 years old when we moved there and left at 18 when we had to leave our tied cottage on Dad's death and we moved to Fenton. Life was good on the farm for a growing lad, I had a dog and an air rifle and spent many hours "ratting" at night around the barns and stackyard. I had my cycle and used to roam ...read more here
A memory of Kettlethorpe contributed by brian williamson
Royal Air Force
Basic training days over, my first posting "Scampton" with 230 OCU. I remember having fire duty sitting beside the control tower as fighter pilots converted to bomber, the exercise being circuits and bumps with the Lincoln bomber, some of the bumps were were heavy, good job the aircraft was well built. I am proud to have served, it was a wonderful experience.
A memory of Scampton contributed by James Clifton
School Days in Newton-on-Trent
I went to school in Newton on Trent when I was 7. The head teacher was Mrs Moore. There was a Big room and a Little Room. The Little Room had a Wendy House...and I remember reading a book about and boy who kept running around a tree until he turned to butter. I never did understand how that happened.
In the Big Room we had wooden desks that sat two pupils side by side. There were holes for ink wells. The room was heated by a pot bellied stove with a fire guard around it.
When you progressed from writing with a pencil you were allowed to use a pen and ink. For this we had to get a ...read more here
A memory of Newton-On-Trent contributed by Gillian Emerton
Extracts From Willingham By Stow & Lincolnshire books
By the mid 1950s much had changed, and the front of the Angel
and Royal Hotel indicates the reason (see G43032 and G43099).
Motor transport had been invented, and was becoming very popular
indeed. The Second World War had been over for about ten years,
and better times were on the way - and so there were traffic direction
signs and advertisements for travellers. Lamp-posts that had lost
their lamps now became supports for road directions, and streets
were lit by electric lamps on long concrete posts; these were not in
the least attractive, but were functional.
Boots the Chemists were still next door to the hotel, but not
for long: they were soon to move further along the High Street
as Grantham’s shopping centre gravitated towards St Peter’s Hill,
following the move of the F W Woolworth store from the Market
Place. Eventually the redundant lamp-posts were removed and
replaced by traffic lights, which seemed to spring up like mushrooms.
They still are doing so elsewhere in town. The space left by the Cross
Swords pub was still vacant at the time the photograph was taken
(to the left in G43099), but would soon be filled in by another most
unattractive but functional building.
An extract from from"Grantham Town and City Memories".
During the First World War, two enormous army camps were
situated within two miles of the town, and in 1915 the Machine
Gun Corps was founded in Harrowby Camp. There are plaques
recalling this, and the Corps standard is laid up in the church. (The
Corps was nicknamed ‘the suicide club’ as they suffered over 62,000
casualties). The church also boasts a superb ring of 10 bells; the
Society of Change Ringers of St Wulfram’s was founded in 1781, and
is the town’s oldest club.
Across narrow Church Street, formerly Alms Lane, is the nearby
King’s School; it was re-founded by Bishop Foxe in 1528, although
there is an earlier reference to it in 1329. The Old School, now used
as the school library, dates back to the very early 16th century, and
among its pupils were Sir Isaac Newton and William Cecil, later
Lord Burghley, the great advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He later built
Burghley House just south of Stamford. Isaac Newton was fond of
carving his initials, sun dials or even his name on walls, and his name
can be seen on one of the window sills in the Old School. This boys’
school is still a grammar school as it was in the early 1500s, but Latin
grammar is not now one of its subjects. The school was one of several
endowed by Bishop Foxe, a local man - he was born in the nearby
village of Ropsley. Bishop Foxe was appointed Bishop of Winchester
in 1501; he died in 1528, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral.
An extract from from"Grantham Town and City Memories".
W G Harrison, who would now have two shops on the High Street.
This corner shop has had a long history of printing and publishing, and
local names such as Ridge, Clarke and Marshall Ltd and Leayton &
Eden, plus the two already mentioned, were at times situated there.
In G43024, left, we see that the gentlemen’s outfitter Colin Tipler
had arrived (right of photograph); the Olde Café of Catlin Bros
(near left) was still a place to go for coffee and delicious cream teas.
John Pacey, who during the Second World War was an officer in the
Lincolnshire Regiment and won the Military Cross in Italy, was busy
in his flower shop (near right) and with rugby and cricket whenever
he got the chance. He was presented with his award by General
Montgomery in Italy after he had recovered from his unpleasant
wounds. Whysall’s, the opticians and chemists, were next door.
An extract from from"Grantham Town and City Memories".
The Crazy Golf Course is still there; so are the hotels and flats fronting South Parade, including the Lakeside Hotel on the extreme right.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".
There is still a putting green near the Clock Tower, but it is in an adventure form, and is perhaps not so attractive as the simplified version was. The flagstaff belonged to the lifeboat station, which at that time was sited off the picture to the right, and a flag was flown when the lifeboat was at sea.
An extract from from"Skegness Town and City Memories".