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.

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....

That the port of Spalding had an old and active market is undoubted. I have found no reference to an early charter awarding market rights...

When I worked in Holbeach there was an old boy used to come into town most market days from Holbeach St Marks by catching a lift with the...

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...