Captain Perry had committed a dereliction of duty by not setting fire to his ship

Few realise that he wrote and sold the best-selling guitar playing book of its day that outsold Bert Weedon's famous, " Play in a Day".

The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Bank Company formed in 1832 and this would eventually merge in Barclays Bank in common with many other...

This rather shit fountain has courted controversy in the town centre for decades.

Not in itself unique to Spalding in the “Golden Age of Rail” on the 18th October 1848 Spalding’s railway station opened for the first...

Rendered patterns of birds, shells, hobby horses and boats that he duly painted are the work of local handyman Jack Cooper.

In January 1939 a number of human bones and three or four human skulls were unearthed by workmen under the floor of the Lincoln Arms Inn...

If I had my way he would have a statue in the middle of Spalding.

1979 saw 27 people come forward witnessing UFO’s in the Spalding area

The Knickebein Beam or Nickobein Beam resulted in two significant bombings of Spalding by the Luftwaffe

Inspectors Caban and Wackett were hardly pressed while defending the parachute party and were compelled to resort to fisticuffs

It was moist – it was not set. It was very soft and it gave off a very foul odour. It was beef

excerpt from a letter of 1850 shows how the road conditions can really get on your tits:

In 1875 Spalding had 279 drunkards. Even Grantham only reaches 103, whilst Boston is credited with but 85.

They lie as thick as thieves, and they live like pigs.

Apparently the smell of hemp wafting across the streets of Spalding isnot new.

A tale of a hand that came out of the darkness.

In 1962 King Hussein of Jordan was passing through Spalding and stopped to have breakfast.

Bentley removed the charter and  other documents relating to Spalding Priory from Spalding. The theiving bastard.

“I’ve fed half the children in Spalding,” was Fred Turner’s boast