Spalding's Butter Market
Down the side of Spalding's Civic Centre is a passageway called The Butter Market. Here is some of the history and the context in a...
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- Jul 21
- 3 min
Wooden Dollars and Trade Tokens
You may have heard the phrase “wooden dollars” when referring to spurious values of such items as natural capital values. The term refers...
- May 13
- 6 min
Memories of Spalding Tulip Parade
Today the 13th of May 2023 heralds the return of the Spalding Tulip Parade. I now live in Northumberland, where my tulips flower much...
- Apr 28
- 2 min
Spalding and the Missing Stone of Scone
As the Stone of Destiny, otherwise known as the Stone of Scone, winds its way from Scotland to nestle below the King's posterior on the...
- Jul 8, 2022
- 6 min
The short-changing of Spalding – a lesson for other rural towns.
In 2003 I wrote a letter to the local press “Wake Up Spalding we are being short-changed”. About two weeks later I was approached by an...
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
Dan Morgan and the Richest Corpse in Show Business.
As such reality TV programs as Love Island and hunted return to our screens would you expect such shows to be subject of a science...
- Nov 22, 2021
- 4 min
The Mystery of Spalding's Cycle Lanes
If you cycle around Spalding you will encounter a bizarre collection of cycle lanes, many ill maintained, some bizarre and most ill...
- Nov 18, 2021
- 9 min
THE MIXED FREEDOM OF THE MOTOR CAR AND HOW IT IS DISAPPEARING.
In my home town of Spalding as a child in the 1970’s I saw a great growth in car ownership as it became an item only a few could afford...
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