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