War and Armed Forces Archives - Page 4 of 7 - South Holland Life Heritage and Crafts including Chain Bridge Forge

Home Guard

Mr Scrimshaw writes Hi All My search into my family history has unearthed photos of both my father Neville and uncle Royce in different units of the local Home Guard - I am not sure which units and…

Spalding Civil Defence news item and disbandment letters

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Fulney Park Camp (POW camp 153)

Visible on the 1950’s 6-inch Ordinance Survey map is Fulney Park Camp, or camp 153. The site is currently a market garden, but the Second World War POW camp used to be to the south of Fulney House, on…

The Secret Army

June 1940. France had fallen. The British expeditionary force was being ravaged at Dunkirk. It seemed likely that Adolf Hitler would invade Britain. Winston Churchill had only been Prime Ministe…

East Pinchbeck Home Guard

East Pinchbeck Home Guard ,WWII Back Row - A Oliver, C Goodacre, J Hargrave, T Addington, R Quinton, H Nichols, B Hamilton & J Hallgate. Front row - E Benfield, C Bardsley, E Needs, C Turner, …

RAF Sutton Bridge

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Spalding Homeguard

Thank to Jane Cooper and Facebook- can we help some of the people involved?…

Tippler’s Memories

Tippler’s Memories: My first job in Spalding – part one Spalding Voice 31/12/2019 John Tippler returns with some of his memories for readers to enjoy. When I came to leave my first job, a business …

Crowland Radar Tower

Another Crowland landmark, Manned by the UK and the USA, I remember two American brothers at our school for a short while , their Dad was Manning the Radar, this would be the 60s I was at South view a…

Jane’s Fletcher and Rosetta Farrow

Remembrance Day Lest We Forget: Jabez Fletcher and Rosetta Farrow (of the Farrows Peas family and we always keep a tin in the cupboard) were married at Whaplode, Lincolnshire in 1878. On the 1881 cens…

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