Agricultural Labour - increased mobility and increased concern over child labour and the employment of women. The increased mobility of...

In May 2019 a meter high statue was unveiled in Hall Place, Spalding commemorating the times when Spalding had a May Hiring Fair where...

“A Fenman’s dowry, threescore geese and a pelt.” This saying is an indication of the economic importance to many fenmen of geese and...

One of the great difficulties that farmers to this day experience is the supply of water. A 21 inch average with many years markedly...

In the graveyard at Gedney Hill churchyard is a modest gravestone that due to the ravages of time and growth of moss cannot quite be...

On 25th July 1766 The Derby Mercury carried the following notice: “To all who are Lovers of Nature’s wonderful productions. There is come...

In 2007 my late father-in-law John Wright pulled some old farm diaries out of his shed to show me. He allowed me to borrow them and I...

In 1991 I gave a talk to Long Sutton Friendship Club about the history of wildfowling in the area. Afterwards I was asked if I could meet...

“There is no  habitat in Lincolnshire which can truly be described as natural unless it be the sandy and muddy foreshores of the coast....

In 1986 I was sat in Spalding Gentlemen’s Society when the then President of the Society, Bob Whiston told me that when he was a child...

In January 1824 the Freiston coastguard experienced no small success: “Last week in Lincoln Deeps, as a detached party belonging to the...

What made Freiston Shore so popular? If we look at the various activities there are a few factors that may have influenced this, but they...

It is perhaps hard to imagine as you wind down the narrow roads approaching Freiston village and then a little further, two miles, to...

Sturgeon Sturgeon are almost never seen in UK waters either in the sea or inland. However, occasional non-native sturgeon species get...

Perhaps the most famous fishing family from the Wash are the Linehams of Fosdyke who have made their lives from the sea as fishermen and...

DECOYS AROUND FRISKNEY AND WAINFLEET The decoys of this area provided great interest yet by the time Oldfield published his History of...

It is possibly hard to imagine nowadays, but the Wash and  the inland waterways leading from the Wash provided key channels for trade and...

DOWSBY DECOY -  “……….towards Sleaford, we soon get to another group of six old Decoys, all within three miles NE of Dowsby, the most...

Most of us are familiar with the word Decoy referring to a wooden, or plastic model of a duck or pigeon, but in this case the word Decoy...

Also, reproduced many times in books and magazines are Frank Parkinson’s photographs of plover netting on Cowbit Wash with clap-nets....