With news of the anticipated axing of Sean Dunderdale's Farm Watch program from BBC Radio Lincolnshire I post an excerpt from my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond. Is this Urban Bias or Regional neglect? Urban bias in the media – the Fenland area has been protected by a strong history of free, unfettered and at times fearless local press. Indeed the Lincolnshire Free Press was originally founded as The Lincolnshire Boston and Spalding Free Press to counte

July 1915 saw a tornado hit Saracens Head near Holbeach

In 1915 shortage of harvest labour saw schoolboys being released from study to help with farm work. The issue over whether this should be paid work arose and the President of the Board of Education, Mr. Henderson, showed wisdom in his instruction: “…local education authorities which take responsibility of excusing boys from school in order to serve the special needs of the country in the present emergency cannot reasonably disclaim responsibility for seeing that fair wages ar