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Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond
After much work I have now published the full version of my book "Marsh Fen and Town South Lincolnshire and Beyond". It is a hard back book just under A4 size consisting of 450 pages, over 250,000 words and over 200 pictures and illustrations.
Jul 24, 20251 min read
My Identity - Home is where the curlews cry.
What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes. My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....
Jan 8, 20252 min read
Sidebar - The Loss of the Cranberry in the Fens of Lincolshire
In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.
Jul 20, 202412 min read
Decoys - part 3 Friskney and Wainfleet decoys The Skeltons and the Williams decoymen.
DECOYS AROUND FRISKNEY AND WAINFLEET The decoys of this area provided great interest yet by the time Oldfield published his History of...
Jul 15, 20246 min read
Decoys - part 2 notes on more Lincolnshire Decoys
DOWSBY DECOY - “……….towards Sleaford, we soon get to another group of six old Decoys, all within three miles NE of Dowsby, the most...
Jul 12, 20248 min read
Decoys - part 1
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...
Jul 8, 202416 min read
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