Saturday 10th September 1842 saw a massive thunder storm hit Spalding with much lightning, at that time referred to as “electric fluid” striking the town and hit two properties in Spalding town centre. One was the house of local builder William Sharman in Red Lion Street and demolished sixty squares of glass in the front of the house and a splendid mirror inside the house valued at £7 exploded and “broke into atoms”.
The nearby office chimney of local solicitor Charles Green was also struck with the chimney falling through the roof onto a chair in his office that he had only been sat in a few minutes before, destroying both that and several other items of furniture in the room.[1]
[1] Stamford Mercury 16.9.1842
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