A look at cabbage growing in the Fens

uesday 27th April 1876 saw the Spring Fair in Spalding. The area was recovering from several years of rinderpest that devastated local livestock followed by drought.

Throughout the Middle Ages fishing rights were an important economic asset throughout the Fens and were d by a complex structure of...

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.

In 1835 South Durham MP Joseph Pease succeeded in getting a Bill passed in Parliament ending bull baiting, dog fighting and cock fighting. But the annual Bull run in Stamford was to continue.  Here I consider this, how this was resisted and then consider the consequences of a recent occurrence of a young bull running through the middle of Birmingham.

An insight into the working life and accomodation in the 19th Century Lincolnshire Fens

The following extract by the Revd. Daniels published in 1812 gives a detailed account of goose rearing in the Fens and in France...

As I researched and wrote this I couldn’t help but think this story is worthy of a theatrical drama, or a film, or even, as is the trend...

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....

May 28th 1914 saw the Welland Trustees take its annual trip "down below" into the waters of The Wash

Every so often I will publish material that did not  make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...

Spalding policemen assumed a man was drunk after he loaded his pipe with pieces of pork pie and started to smoke it!

The value of both rare breeds and those maintaining them is vastly underappreciated to the detriment of our food security.

In this piece I look how drainage of the Fens for agriculture saw the loss of the cranberry in the Lincolnshire Fens.

A society that divorces the needs of the environment, the economy and people should be of concern to all.