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Geest Packing Department

On the Geest theme this is the potato packing department which was featured in Geest News from September 1967 . The lady on the right was my mum Joan Johnson…

Contract of Employment in 1890

Plus a life with No running water, outside privy, no heating apart from a coal f…

Eddie Hibbett and a Ploughing Matching

The first one shows my great grandfather Edward Hibbett, who was a land agent in the market deeping area, with another gentleman. The second shows a very grand looking scene of ladies in carriages an…

Horses show their paces

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Portass Thrashing Machinery

Mr Bunn in Lincolnshire dialect remember dad mam telling dad to ofder steem coal so portass come and thrassing jonny portass that is Apparently Portass came from Luton and were thrashing contra…

Farming on Surfleet Fen in 1959

Gosberton Risegate resident Mark Joy has sent us this picture of wheat being combined in 1959. Mark says: “My Dad, Gus Joy, is driving the lorry and Fred Wilson is operating the combine. “They were…