Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
Wainfleet photos
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Wainfleet maps
Historic maps of Wainfleet and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wainfleet maps
Wainfleet books
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Memories of Wainfleet
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I have memories of me and the now-landlord getting banned from this pub and I lost me bike!
Shared on 21 April 2009
This isn't a memory, but I would like to hear about other people's memories as to the Woolpack at Wainfleet. I have been the landlady of this hotel for the last 7 months and would like to know some history about the premises prior to the 1950s - can anyone help?
Shared on 03 April 2009
Lincolnshire memories
Remembering my Best Friend, Andy Gardiner
While studying at Westminster Technical College, Hotel School just off Victoria Street in London I became good friends with Andy Gardiner whose parents ran a small hotel, probably one of these pictured here, in the North Parade of the front at Skegness.
Andy invited me up at some point to meet his parents and sister, he being accompanied by his... [more]
Shared on 21 May 2008
I remember Eastville as a child growing up, we used to visit and stay with my nan (Linda Howard) every bank holiday. It was very quiet and peaceful. We had some lovely times, Grandad (John Howard) was the local smithy. Most times some of us would walk what dad called the 5 mile walk from the corner by the pub (the... [more]
Shared on 26 June 2009
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... [more]
Shared on 01 October 2006
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.... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2008
I was born in 1951 and in April 1953 our family moved to Hogsthorpe. My parents were worried as that was the year of the floods and they had put furniture in our new home. Although the police would not let them through to check on things, fortunately, Hogsthorpe was not flooded. So we moved in and in... [more]
Shared on 30 June 2006
Did anyone know my grandparents?
John and May Mcgahan worked in a Chapel-St-Leonards' chipshop for Ben? My mother was called Margaret Mcgahan. Does anyone remember them? Did you work with them? I would like to find out more.
I have moved away now but my brother runs a cafe at Cafe St Leonards.
Shared on 30 August 2009
Extracts From Wainfleet & Lincolnshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Wainfleet, inspired by Frith photos.
The buildings have not changed in fifty years - except that no one can remember the clock tower (built in 1899) not having a top to it! Wilkinson's (right) is now Storrs, and Robbialac paint is no longer available. The white building beyond now houses pizzas and kebabs, accountants, and antiques. The corner stationer's is still just that. The market day... [more]
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Lincolnshire Photographic Memories
Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899. Beyond the late Victorian pair, The Manse and The Villa (with the timbered gable) tower over the pair of small cottages beside them.
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The buildings have not changed in fifty years - except that no one can remember the clock tower (built in 1899) not having a top to it! Wilkinson's (right) is now Storrs, and Robbialac paint is no longer available. The white building beyond now houses pizzas and kebabs, accountants, and antiques. The corner stationer's is still just that. The market day... [more]
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