The town centres of Spalding, Boston and Wisbech saw massive changes to their town centres dominated by a new generation of migrants.

Migration of people has been at the core of shaping Spalding and its surrounding area physically, economically and socially. This I feel...

George Adams Shop in The Crescent Spalding Of the four businesses I have chosen as the pillars upon which Spalding’s food industry was built George Adams & Son is the only one that was established in the town centre. In 1910 George Adams started a small butchers shop at 25 The Crescent in Spalding. Early adverts seem to emphasize the availability of small joints and cuts: “Small half-bred mutton for sale. Half-shoulders 2s. to 2s. 6d; half legs 3s. to 3s. 6d.; other joints cu

In 1935 in Calthrop’s solicitors office in Spalding the first Geest Company, Geest Horticultural Products was incorporated under the...

November 1930 saw the following announcement that was to herald further establishment of the food processing industry in Spalding hot on...

Modern sugar production from sugar beet owes its origins in the Prussian Empire of 1801 which saw the first beet sugar factory opened in...

When I  describe Spalding as an industrial town people are generally surprised. We have an image of an industrial town being depicted as...

Dairy produce was primarily in the form of butter in market towns. If you cannot sell milk for immediate consumption it needs to be...

In the case of markets, maintaining confidence in the market was key. The nineteenth century saw an increase in control of livestock...

That the port of Spalding had an old and active market is undoubted. I have found no reference to an early charter awarding market rights...

Spalding is where I was born and where I have lived most of my life to date. I state “feeding from beyond the Fens” because this has many...

By the early 1870’s Bourne was at a peak of activity which was matched by high employment activity nationally at that time.

When I worked in Holbeach there was an old boy used to come into town most market days from Holbeach St Marks by catching a lift with the...

I worked very little in Sutton Bridge with the office there being dominated by my then colleagues Annie Batuik and Les Hills. When I did...

“ I am here with my sister visiting this city. We are from Denmark and we think that the English people are very polite. Arriving to this...

Do the towns of the Fens serve the countryside? Or does the countryside serve the towns?  The American economist Jane Jacobs argued that...

“All criminal trials are about society, not just a case.” These words were written by the journalist and author Colin MacInnes in 1971....

In Spalding Parish Church there are two windows created by the eminent stained glass artist H. W. Harvey in 1966. Both are very bright...

The previous two pictures are of a pair of steam plough engines that my grandfather Frank Parish worked on. They were bought by the...

Improvements in the living conditions of farm labourers were slow and largely depended upon the willingness and abilities of the larger...