As the numbers of rural poor increased from the 1870's various policies were enacted to reduce their cost such as emigration and allotments - here I consider the development of allotments and smallholdings in South Lincolnshire

Here I consider fen ague and how it combined with opiate addiction

In 1911 the Stamford Spalding and Boston Banking Company was taken over by Barclays. Here I explain how this happened.

Spalding Fire Brigade entered the 20th Century under equipped, under-trained and under-funded.

A little know hero of beekeeping was located in Moulton Chapel. here I describe the significance to Thomas Nutt's work.

Here I look at the development of Moulton Marsh and Moulton Marsh Nature Reserve

It is perhaps bizarre that in the middle of Spalding down the road from the house I was raised in, in Stonegate was a house that relied entirely on gas for it had no electricity until the 21st century. In it lived Edna Basam and her elderly mother when I was young and they had gas lamps on the walls for lighting. I remember asking them what they were as I hadn’t seen gaslight before and Edna lit one to show me.# The electricity grid to supply the whole country with electric

The Wash had its share of shipwrecks with Samuel Plimsol M.P. fighting hard to reduce the mortality of sailors

It is hard to believe today that Wainfleet was considered as a bridgehead port to serve Lincoln with coal.

2022 saw Centre Port propose a Wash Dam project. Here I look at the history of this concept first proposed by the engineer John Rennie in 1837.

A court decision on 1st January 1824 in favour of Lord Yarborough established rights to marsh land that would later scupper a proposal to dam part of the Wash.

. As I stood on a balcony looking down I marvelled at the simple ingenuity of what was before me. A lorry laden with carrots from the field entered at one end of the line. They were washed in chilled water to start the chilling process, topped, tailed, washed again, chilled and bagged ready to exit on another lorry to be distributed across the country usually via supermarket hubs. All this happened in minutes rather than hours from entry to exit. It is hard to believe that a

As I sat in the White Pheasant Clem Tompsett explained how asparagus was one of his first crops.

As a child it was a treat to go "down the marsh" to Shep White's to pick samphire. Here I look at some of the history behind this plant.

Several weeks ago I finished reading Rory Stewart’s book Middleland, here I compare some of his writing and thoughts and opinions and compare them to my own writing, thoughts and opinions. “Such remoteness is not necessarily physical remoteness, but rather social, economic and temporal remoteness.” – these are my words when writing about urban bias in my book Marsh Fen and Town- South Lincolnshire and Beyond. To this I would add cultural remoteness and I guess Rory Stewart wo

A short tale from the Fens

In this third post on Lincolnshire cattle I take a brief look at the famous Lincolnshire Red. If you enjoy this post please consider buying my book Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond available on Amazon.

In this second of three posts about Lincolnshire livestock I look at the short-horn

This is the first of three posts looking at Lincolnshire cattle - starting with the famous Lincolnshire Ox of 1790

The Lincolnshire Curly Coat Pig - its downfall and its potential origins