A view over Aisthorpe from Middle Street to the east.

White's Directory 1872 states "AISTHORPE, or East Thorpe, 6 miles N.N.W. of Lincoln, is a parish and small straggling village, containing 110 souls, and 803 acres of land, consisting chiefly of clay.

John Robert Ealand, Esq., of Aisthorpe House, owns and occupies all the land in the parish, except about 40 acres, belonging to the Rector ...

Henry Amcotts, a native of this place, was Lord Mayor of London, in 1548". 

DB 13 November 2020

Alford is a market town lying at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds.

It has a working five-sailed windmill and a thatched manor house open to the public.

This photograph is taken from St Wilfrid's churchyard looking ahead to West Street close to the centre of the town.

Undated postcard

Looking along the main street east towards the church.

Photograph dated 1903

Bag Enderby is a hamlet in the Lincolnshire Wolds 6 miles north east of Horncastle.

George Clayton Tennyson, father of Lord Tennyson, was Rector here from 1807 to 1831.

The cottage in this painting is of mud and stud construction, a common building material in this part of the County.

Postcard, dated 1920

The little cottage on the left was a shop for many years. The first owner in the 20th century was Elsam, then Steel (circa 1922) and finally George and Blanche Bates (circa 1938).  Mrs.Bates closed the shop with the introduction of VAT.

The building is on High Street, Bassingham, close to the school, the War Memorial, the Church and the Old Rectory (now a Nursing Home.)  Being a 'sweet shop' it was a popular place with the children.

In the distance is the blacksmith's with horses waiting on the road.

This is one of the older parts of the village. When the photograph was taken Martin's stackyard was on the other side of the road.

Post card, c.1925
Notes from Mrs Helen Ash

Baston is a village of some 1500 people on the edge of the Fens between Bourne and Market Deeping.  The busy A15 passes through the edge of the village.

An Anglo-Saxon cemetery of funerary urns was discovered here in 1851.

undated postcard, probably 1920s

Benington lies some four miles east of Boston. Its name derives from 'Benna's farm or settlement'. 

Undated postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. 

Billingborough lies between Sleaford and Bourne. It has a population of some 1400.

Its parish church is largely in the Decorated style with a late nineteenth-century chancel.

The Fortescue Arms dates back several centuries.

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Looking north along the main street in Bloxholm with the old coach house (?) visible.

Victorian "VR" wall post box.

DB 8 June 2020 

View along Main Street. A Georgian building the former Church View Farmhouse is on the left.

DB 21 February 2018 

Postcard view of the market dating from 1935.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The principal market is on Wednesday, but a smaller one is held on Saturday.

A fat and store stock market is held every Wednesday, which is well attended.

The market for corn is held in the Market place, and the cattle market and fairs are held in the open space in Wide Bargate.

The fairs are on the 4th of May for sheep, and the day following for cattle; first Wednesday in August for fat cattle; September 15th for foals, cattle and general merchandise; November 18th and the following day for horses, and December 11th for cattle only"

Braceborough is a hamlet in South Kesteven. It had a station on the Essendine to Bourne railway which closed in 1951.

Dr Francis Willis treated King George III for his "madness" in nearby Shillingthorpe Hall (demolished in 1949). A Spa House was opened in 1841. Popular in Victorian times, it closed in 1939.

This photograph taken in c.1930 looks south from Lincoln Road along High Street towards the centre of the village with the All Saints church and the Waggon and Horses public house in the distance.

On the right is the parish Reading Room.

An early view along Bigby Street, looking east towards the parish church and Methodist Church.

postcard in Wrench Series published by Jackson & Sons of Brigg, undated

Postcard view of Market Place in 1923.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "The weekly store stock and general market is held on Thursdays, and is very well attended; a fat stock market is held fortnightly on Tuesday, and a fair on the 5th of August for cattle and general commodities; there is also a hiring for servants on the Friday before Old May-day"

Undated view of Brigg market.

Postcard by Harrison Photo, Lincoln.

Brinkhill is a small village in the Lincolnshire Wolds 5 miles west of Alford. The Methodist chapel on the left has been converted into a residence.

Postcard published by R. Baumber, Post Office, Brinkhill & postmarked Horncastle 1909. 

Tower House Lane - later Back Lane, now Mill Lane -  joins Grimsby Road at the north-east edge of the town centre.

postcard, 1905

Looking north along High Street. On the right is the primary school, built as a National School in 1858 on the corner of Church Street; it closed in 1983

On the left is the Wesleyan Methodist chapel, on the corner of Manor Lane, which opened in 1863.

Both buildings have survived into the 21st century as conversions into dwellings.

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This small coastal resort - originally Mumby Chapel - developed after the First World War when building on the Lincolnshire sand dunes became permissible.

In the late Victorian period there was a lifeboat station for a few years (1879-98) and in the 1930s motor cycling racing took place on the extensive smooth sands.

This view is from the sea bank looking westward to the small retail area.

Postcard, 1938

Claxby is a small village some three miles south of Alford. Its church, St Andrews, is redundant. Claxby Chalk Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Undated postcard by Bellamy, stationer of Alford.

A rare view of Cleethorpes looking north across an old claypit of the brickworks. Beyond the water tower are the kilns and other buildings of the brickworks. Close by to the left is the railway line. Note the 'dipper' ride in the left background.

Undated postcard by J. W. Hardy of Cleethorpes.

The Enclosure Award Commissioner set out a "Public Carriage Road of the breadth of thirty feet called the Grimsby Road" in 1846.

It contains St Aidan's Church of 1906, the Constitutional Club of 1911/12 and the Memorial Hall (1960).

undated postcard

"The wapentake of Beltisloe, established in the 10th century under Danelaw, met in the Market Place and dealt with civil, fiscal and military concerns.

A market and fair charter was granted in 1239 by Henry III which permitted a weekly market and three annual fairs; the annual sheep fair is the oldest in Britain"

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=8056&p=0 

DB 15 April 2018 

The C15 cross was converted into a lock-up in 1819. It is now listed Grade I.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck  

Deeping St James, lying 1 mile east of Market Deeping, was built around a twelfth-century Benedictine Abbey destroyed at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The village has an eighteenth-century lock-up built on the site and with the materials of a medieval wayside cross.

A railway station opened in 1848 and closed in 1964.

postcard mailed in 1911

Looking west along Main Road from the village green.

Village sign carries reference to Dyke's inclusion in the Doomsday Book.

"The Domesday Book records that in 1086 Orger the Briton owned land around Dyke which he divided into arable, pasture and woodland"

http://dykehistory.org.uk/ 

DB 20 August 2020

Faldingworth is a small village on the A46 5 miles south west of Market Rasen.

This view of the main street looks east from the Buslingthorpe Road junction.

Its church contains memorials to Second World War Polish airmen stationed at RAF Faldingworth.

undated postcard

Faldingworth is a small village on the A46 5 miles south west of Market Rasen.

This view looks east.

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Faldingworth is a small village on the A46 5 miles south west of Market Rasen.

This photograph taken from near the Methodist Chapel shows cottages on the north side of the street with the spire of All Saints' church in the background.

Its church contains memorials to Second World War Polish airmen stationed at RAF Faldingworth.

undated postcard

Fotherby is a small village in East Lindsey, 3 miles north of Louth.

Undated postcard.

Looking north east towards the junction between Church  Road, Field Lane and Wright's Lane (Panton's Corner).

The sails of Kitching's Mill are just visible behind the buildings in the centre of the photograph.

Postcard: date stamp 1905 (Edward VII)

This kissing gate stood at the east end of junction of Chapel Lane and Field Lane (the eastern end of this path is called Wash Dyke Lane).

The public right of way still exists but the gate is long gone.

Postcard: c1930

This is a magnifient avenue of elms about a quarter of a mile north of the church.

It was felled around 1960 (as were the elms in the churchyard) and now survives in name only.

Postcard: c1930

Fulbeck lies on the A607 14 miles north of Grantham. It has the home of the Fane family since 1632.

Fulbeck Hall served as the headquarters of the 1st Airborne Division before the Arnhem operation. RAF Fulbeck housed 2 Lancaster squadrons from October 1944 until the end of the war.

undated postcard

Gainsborough is a red brick town, important in the wool trade in Medieval times and significant when the engineers Marshall, Sons & Co thrived in the nineteenth century. For much of the twentieth century it was in decline.

The Market Place is small and unremarkable. The building in the background of this photograph is the Town Hall.

Pevsner only records "the robust Neo-Georgian National Provincial Bank, 1926 by F C R Palmer".

postcard, 1907

A view of Howe Street, showing ladies in long Edwardian dresses and a boy in knicker-bockers.

This rural scene, with no car to be seen, contains two early bicycles and a baby carriage pushed by the lady in the centre of the village street.

Postcard, c1910

This view looking south along High Street includes the historic Angel and Royal Hotel in the left foreground.

Originally the Angel Inn, the hotel is the oldest secular building in Grantham - possibly as early as 1200.

In the yard behind the façade are stables and outbuildings surviving from the coaching days of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Undated postcard

The viewpoint for this 1950s photograph is St Peter's Hill, looking northwards towards High Street.

At the time, this relatively quiet street was in fact the Great North Road.

Undated postcard

Looking north along St Peter's Hill Grantham in the 1950s. The tall building right of centre is the town Guildhall, designed by William Watkins of Lincoln and completed in 1868.

It was originally flanked by offices for the Chief Constable and the Inspector of Weights and Measures.

Later the Town Museum was constructed immediately to the south side of the Guildhall (as shown here).

Undated postcard

Grasby is a small village sited 3 miles north-west of Caistor.

Charles Tennyson Turner, brother of Alfred Tennyson, was rector of Grasby from 1837 until his death in 1879.

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Multi view card by Jackson & Son (Gy.), Ltd., Grimsby & Bradford - George V one penny stamp but date on postmark unreadable. 

Multi view postcard showing the Royal Dock, Bargate, Freeman Street Corner, Fish Docks and the Grimsby Coat of Arms "Argent a Chevron between three Boars' Heads couped Sable armed Or"

Undated postcard "Jay Em Jay" Series

Victoria Street is one of the principal streets in the town.

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Grimsthorpe is a hamlet in the parish of Edenham sited 3 miles north-west of Bourne.

Close by is Grimsthorpe Castle, home to the Willoughby de Eresbys for centuries.

This postcard was posted in 1905.

Habrough lies 8 miles north-west of Grimsby.

Its railway station opened in 1848. The Station Hotel still offers rooms.

This postcard dates from around 1920.

The small village of Halton Holegate lies 1 mile east of Spilsby.

It had a railway station on the Firsby Junction to Spilsby branch line which opened in 1868. Passenger services ended in 1939 and the line closed completely in 1958.

The Bell Inn, shown here on the left, is still open for business.

The fringe of the churchyard of St Andrew's appears on the right.

undated postcard

The High Street looking west towards the Post Office corner. The telegraph pole on the RHS stands in front of the railings of the Village Hall and pub carpark.

Just past the Butcher and Beast is Hufton's Blacksmith shop, by this time it sold Shell petrol from a tank under the floor, through a long arm over the pavement.

The stone houses past this, with railings in front, were taken down in the 1950s. During the War soldiers had been billeted in their long attic range, where perhaps the boarders at the Boys' School had slept.

The house at the end of the view was the School Master�s House (owned by Garrett's Charity), the house to its left was the house and surgery of three consecutive families of doctors from about 1927 to the early 1990s.

Red brick, green tiled front of Heighington Post Office, the double-fronted building on the left.

Its stone front had been demolished in the early 1920s when "The cart got away with the "oss" coming down the hill opposite.

The Robinson family moved from their Monks Road shop and re-built the front and ran it as the Post Office and general store for two generations.

The adjoining cottage now has the left hand side door blocked up.

Station Road looking east towards the village from the right-angle bend onto Station Hill.

The Grange on the left hand side, then Beckfield (the Beck runs behind it, parallel to the road), and the view is closed by the old Methodist Chapel School Room.

Heighington Beck, west from the High Street to the three-storey watermill.

Mr Frank East lived in the semi-detached brick house on the left, built by his (stone mason) father on the site of his old thatched stone house in spring 1893.

The October Village Feast had been held on the old site as building work could not start in the winter because of the effect of frost on the mortar.

Hemswell is in West Lindsey, 7 miles east of Gainsborough. The maypole in the left foreground is from the nineteenth century and is still in use.

Undated postcard by R.A.P. Co. Ltd.

An early twentieth-century view looking north along Church Street towards Market Hill.

The spire parish church of All Saints at the centre of the town is clearly visible.

The building on the right with three dormer windows is the Reading Room.

Undated postcard

View of the Bull Ring looking northwards from the Town Bridge (over the river Waring).

This was one of the areas of the town taken over by the huge horse fair during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Postcard, 1910

This Edwardian photograph gives a view westwards along High Street towards the Market Place.

On the left in the forground is the Corn Exchange, later converted into the Victory cinema.

On the right before the Market Place is Joseph Banks's house, with the "drum clock" attached at first floor level.

This undated (pre-1866) painting by E Roberts shows the Old Vicarage at the end of the Market Place with edge of the Punch House showing on the extreme left.

The Market Place contained a series of small shops and shacks, shown here on the right, which were cleared away in 1862.

This view shows (on the extreme right foreground) the north side of the High Street frontage leading into the Market Place.

Courtesy Pearl Wheatley

Looking south along Hawthorpe Road towards the Griffin Inn.

DB 27 June 2018  

Keddington is a small village 2 miles north east of Louth. Its church, St Margaret's, seen here in the background, is redundant.

The disused Louth Canal (foreground) passes through the village, and the ruins of Louth Abbey lie within the parish.

Undated postcard by the Cotswold Publishing Co. Ltd.

Village pump to the right with All Saints Church in the background.

DB 29 June 2019

Broadgate, the principal north-south street parallel to Lincoln's High Street, gives an impressive, uninterrupted view of the Cathedral.

In the foreground is the junction between Clasketgate & Silver Street (to the left), Monks Road (right) and Lindum Hill (ahead).

This is a postcard of a painting by Arthur C Payne, probably dating from the inter-war period.

Undated postcard

The area between Exchequer Gate and the Castle in Lincoln, known as Castle Hill, is cobbled.

The timber-framed building on the corner of Bailgate, formerly a bank and now the local tourist office, has two overhangs and three gables.

On the north side of the hill towards the castle are fine 18th and 19th century houses.

Undated postcard

This view of the High Street looks northwards from the top floor of the present Lloyds Bank.

To the right of the Stonebow in the middle distance can be seen the tower of St Peter at Arches and the Cathedral.

In the centre foreground is the stone obelisk which stood on the eastern side of the High Bridge.

Undated postcard

Shops on the High Bridge, Lincoln, viewed from the south-east.

The date is after the 1902 restoration, probably in the 1920s.

Postcard

Another view of the High Street looks northwards from the top floor of the present Lloyds Bank or an adjacent building.

To the right of the Stonebow in the middle distance can be seen the tower of St Peter at Arches (see above) and the Cathedral.

In the centre foreground is the stone obelisk which stood on the eastern side of the High Bridge.

Undated postcard

This small terrace was off the lower High Street close to St Peter at Gowt's Church.

Like most industrial cities which expanded rapidly in the nineteenth century, Lincoln had large areas of back-to-back, high density housing.

Linton Place was demolished in the 1930s.

Postcard, 1901

This section of Lincoln's High Street has changed little in the half century or so since this photograph was taken.

St Mary's Guildhall, on the right, built in the 12th century, has had many uses over the years.

It is owned by the City Council and leased to Lincoln Civic Trust, who restored the building in 1984.

A section of the original Roman Fosse way - complete with wheel ruts - can be viewed through a glass panel in the main ground floor room.

Undated postcard

When the Royal Show was held in Lincoln in 1907 more than 100,000 visitors came, mainly by rail.

The principal streets of the city were decorated.  This arch over High Street was topped by a portable steam engine, symbol of Lincoln's engineering industry.

The single carriage in the photograph carries King Edward VII.

Postcard, 1907

The church of St Swithun is to the left and Broadgate at the end of the street.

Postcard, 1920

Watery Lane in Little Cawthorpe is the site of a ford which gives the village pub, the Royal Oak, its nickname 'the Splash'.

Undated postcard by Valentine's.

Looking north towards Market Place left and High Street.

DB 26 April 2015

The view from the tower of St James's Church, Louth, looking towards the town centre along Little Eastgate is remarkably similar to that depicted in a fine panorama painted by William Brown in 1844.

The street leading away in the centre of the picture is Eastgate, dominated by the Town Hall of 1854, a large brick building with stone dressings and balustrade.

Brown's Panorama hangs in the Council Chamber.

Mark Acton, 2008

The white building in the right foreground was the Black Horse pub then owned by Holes of Newark. It closed some years ago. In the distance can be seen the White Hart which remains open.

Unposted postcard by F. Frith & Co. Ltd 

Ludford is made up of the parishes of Ludford Parva and Ludford Magna.

It is twinned with Voué in France where a Lancaster bomber from RAF Ludford Magna crashed during the Second World War.

In February 2008 the village was the epicentre of an earthquake. Needless to say, it no longer has a post office cum garage (earthquake not to blame).

undated postcard

Village green, seen on the right in this image, is presumably where the market was held.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1889 states :-

"This village had anciently a weekly market and a yearly fair; the former has long since been lost and the latter was sold for £200, and removed to Horncastle in 1768.

Jonathan Field esq. B.A. of Laceby, who is lord of the manor, and William Hyde esq. J.P. of The Sycamores, Louth, are sole landowners"

DB 22 October 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire states :-

"Annual fairs used to be held on October 10th, the second Wednesday after old Mayday and the last Wednesday in July; feasts or statute fairs were formerly held in May and November.

The market day was Wednesday, but no market is now held"

DB 11 November 2019

Queen Street, the main shopping street in the centre of Market Rasen, for a long time carried not only the A631 Gainsborough-Louth traffic but also that on the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby.

Here, in a pre-war photograph, looking west towards Louth, an unusual road sign indicates the left turn down George Street towards Caistor, Brigg and Grimsby. (The A46 now by-passes the town.)

Undated postcard

An early 20rth century scene in Metheringham with a variety of vehicles, including a basket-work bath chair.

The village Post Office and Baldock's the stone mason are on the right.

Middle Rasen lies 1.5 miles west of the town of Market Rasen. It consists of the merged villages of Middle Rasen Drax (from Drax Priory in Yorkshire which held land in medieval times) and Middle Rasen Tupholme (from Tupholme Abbey in Lincolnshire).

This photograph is of the main street (now the A631) with the Methodist Chapel on the left. (This is the current Methodist Chapel, built in 1911)

postcard, undated (but after 1911)

These two pubs on the A15 have both closed - the Lord Nelson in 2013 & the Kings Head in 2007. A Co-op store now sits on the site of the former.

A postcard sent in 1980 

Morton and Hanthorpe was formerly known as Morton by Bourne. It lies 2 miles north of Bourne. Morton sits on the fen side of the A15 whilst Hanthorpe is on the upland side.

George Hussey Packe, MP for South Lincolnshire from 1859 to 1868 and Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, was born in Hanthorpe Hall in 1796.

This postcard was posted in 1943

A photograph of High Street, Navenby taken in the 1960s.

undated postcard

Nettleton lies less than a mile from Caistor.

Much ironstone mining took place in the surrounding countryside.

undated postcard

New Leake is a small fen village 9 miles north of Boston. The bell turret of St Jude's mission church can be seen in the distance.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck 

An inter-war image of the fen village of New Leake.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck 

From the days when shops in small villages sold both cycles and cigarettes.

 Unposted postcard by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. 

North Kelsey is a village of some 900 people 4 miles west of Caistor.

It has an Anglican church and a Methodist chapel.

Its railway station, out at North Kelsey Moor, closed in 1965.

undated postcard

North Kyme is sited 1.5 miles south of Billinghay in North Kesteven. It has a brick church built in 1877.

The village cross is fourteenth-century and was restored in the 1820s.

This quiet village street is now the busy A153 linking Sleaford with Horncastle.

undated postcard

The White Hart pub in the centre of the scene is still open. The building to the right containing Hammond's grocery is now (July 2023) disused & boarded up.

Unposted postcard by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. 

Coat of arms held aloft in the foreground.

"The royal village of Old Bolingbroke.

The shield bears the arms of Edmund first Earl of Lancaster.

These are the arms of the Duchy of Lancaster, who presented the shield to this village on August 4th 1966, in commemoration of the birth in Bolingbroke Castle in 1366, of Henry Bolingbroke Duke of Lancaster, King Henry IV of England.

The roses are the original rose of Lancaster, grown in Provins and adopted by Edmund as his emblem in 1280.

They are a gift to the village from the Mayor and people of Provins, March 1967"

Village war memorial visible background right. 

DB 26 October 2018

Owston Ferry, in the Isle of Axholme, is on the west bank of the River Trent, 9 miles north of Gainsborough.

The motte of a castle, possibly built soon after the Norman Conquest and demolished in 1175-76, can still be seen.

In the nineteenth-century the village was home to a rope-walk, boat-building yard and sacking and sail cloth makers.

undated postcard

This village street in the centre of Partney later became the busy A16 trunk road before the village by-pass was built in 2005.

This view is from the north.

Undated photograph

Pointon lies 7 miles north of Bourne. It is part of the parish of Pointon and Sempringham.

The parish church is the isolated St Andrew's at Sempringham. A "tin tabernacle" was built in Pointon in 1893 as a Chapel of Ease.

undated postcard

Quadring is a small village lying on the A152 two miles south-east of Donington. The sign centre-right advertises Warwick's Newark Ales at the White Hart, now Quadring's last surviving pub.

A postcard sent in 1965.

View across the village green with Joseph Banks' Almshouses on the left and St Laurence's Church on the right.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The cottages, schools and almshouses stand in a semicircle on the south side of a large, well kept green, having the church and parsonage on the north side :

the cottages were erected and the almshouses rebuilt by the late J. Banks Stanhope esq"

DB 16 February 2019

Saltfleet is a small coastal village some eight miles north of Mablethorpe.

This photograph appears to have been taken where the South and North Creeks come together immediately west of the sluice by the A1031 at the southern end of the village.

In the background to the right of the windmill is a terrace of coastguard cottages.

Unposted postcard by Clifford of Nottingham.

Village sign and view along High Street.

DB 19 June 2018

Scampton village lies 5 miles north of Lincoln. Its churchyard contains British, Commonwealth and German war dead.

The Dambusters Inn on the High Street has displays relating to 617 Squadron and is well worth a visit. Nearby RAF Scampton is home to the Red Arrows.

This view looks up the village street in a northerly direction.

postcard, 1923

Scampton village lies 5 miles north of Lincoln. Its churchyard contains British, Commonwealth and German war dead. The Dambusters Inn on the High Street has displays relating to 617 Squadron and is well worth a visit. Nearby RAF Scampton is home to the Red Arrows.

postcard, 1932

West Street is the main street (B1207) running through the village centre.

This view looking south shows the Sutton Arms on the right.

Elsewhere in the village is a mixture of estate cottages dating fromn the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Frith postcard, undated

Sibsey, a village with a population of some 2000,  lies 4 miles north of Boston. It is noted for the Trader windmill & its Grade 1 listed church.

Undated postcard 

Lumley Road and High Street Skegness converge at a point close to the foreshore.

This early twentieth century photograph looks westwards away from the sea and provides a view down both streets.

To the left, on High Street, is Hildred's Hotel, which was established in the mid-nineteenth century well before the explosive growth of Skegness as a seaside resort.

The hotel is now the site of a small shopping arcade.

Undated postcard

The view down Lumley Road, Skegness, towards the sea.

Most of the town's retail businesses were situated along this road and on High Street, which runs roughly parallel to it.

At the far end is the Clock Tower, 56 feet high, built in 1898-99 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

(Lumley is one of family names of the Earls of Scarbrough, principal landowner in the town.)

Undated postcard

Skendleby is a small village 4 miles north east of Spilsby.

The possible remains of St James Chapel, Skendleby Priory, were excavated in 2005.

Nearby RAF Skendleby operated as a Chain Home Low radar station between 1941-45 and served as a ground control intercept station during the Cold War.

An early twentieth century view looking northwards from the Handley Monument up the High Street, Sleaford's principal shopping street.

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South Kelsey lies 4.5 miles south east of Caistor.

The manor of South Kelsey was held by the Hansard and Ayscough families in the Middle Ages.

The Protestant martyr Anne Ayscough or Askew lived in the village for a time.

postcard published by C. Dannatt, Post Office, South Kelsey

South Willingham is a village lying 8 miles south east of Market Rasen. It had a railway station on the Louth to Bardney line.

The cottage in the centre is made of mud and stud, a common method of construction in the east of the county

undated postcard

This undated postcard shows the view on Station Road looking north-west in the direction of Hainton.

The village church is immediately to the left of the camera, out of shot.

Blacksmith's Lane, out of sight beyond the prominent tree, leads left to right across the photo to the smithy.

The village school is the low  building to the right.

Market Place viewed from the South Holland Centre.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1856 states :-

"The Market, held every Tuesday, is the largest in this part of the county for the sale of corn, cattle, sheep, &c., especially fat stock.

Here are five large annual fairs for cattle, merchandise, &c., held on April 27th, June 29th, August 28th, September 25th, and December 6th; and statutes, or hirings for servants, are held twice a year, a few days before Old Mayday and Martinmas" 

DB 2 October 2019

Spilsby is a market town in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire.

The explorer Sir John Franklin was a native.

A branch line to the town from Firsby junction on the East Lincolnshire main line ran from 1868 to 1958.

This view looks west with the White Hart in the right background.

undated postcard

Panoramic view at the junction of Main Street, Fir Tree Lane and Rookery Lane.

DB 16 April 2018 

Sutton Bridge lies 7 miles north of Wisbech close to the border with Norfolk. It has the only flintstone church in Lincolnshire.

King John is rumoured to have lost his treasure close by.

The naturalist Sir Peter Scott lived for a time in the East Lighthouse.

undated postcard

Swineshead is a large village 7 miles west of Boston.

Substantial earthworks may have been the site of a twelfth-century castle.

Swineshead Abbey was founded in 1135 as a Savigniac monastery, converted to Cistercian rule in 1147 and was dissolved in 1536.

This view also shows the base of a medieval market cross.

undated postcard

The lake lies between the parish church of St Helen and Swinhope House, the historic home of the Alingtons.

Undated postcard.

Church to the right and Syston Old Hall to the left.

DB 14 March 2018  

Panoramic view of Market Place.

Charter granted for a weekly market here in 1201. 

DB 5 April 2018

Tealby, 3 miles north east of Market Rasen, is generally considered to be one of the most beautiful villages in the County.

It was the site of Bayons Manor, a Gothic marvel, built for Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt between 1836 & 1840. Having become derelict, it was blown up in 1964.

Tealby has a thatched pub, the Kings Head.

undated postcard

Undated postcard. 

Thealby is a hamlet in the parish of Burton upon Stather described in Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 as :-

"a pleasant hamlet, with a station on the North Lindsey light railway, 2 miles east from Burton church and has a schoolroom used for church services; there are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels"

Waddingham lies near the A15, 10 miles south east of Scunthorpe.

It was originally two settlements: Stainton and Wadingham. Its present population is around 550.

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Village green with a tree that was planted "TO COMMEMORATE THE CORONATION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING EDWARD VII AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA. JUNE 26TH 1902".

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Washingborough is a large village 3 miles south east of Lincoln.

It lies on the River Witham where much evidence of Bronze Age settlement has been found.

This is a view looking down High Street towards Main Road.  The Ferry Boat Inn is a little way down the street on the left. 

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Aram's Pharmacy and Cycle showroom in Wellingore was formerly owned by Mr Ingham, also a chemist, who extracted teeth without an anaesthetic.

No shops now survive in the village.

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This view is from the church tower looks north over the village centre. The mill in the distance, now minus sails, has been converted into a house.

RAF Wellingore opened in 1935 and closed in 1945.

John Gillespie Magee, author of the poem "High Flight", took off from the base on his fatal flight.

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Westwoodside is a small village in the Isle of Axholme, a mile west of Haxey. It is involved in the annual Haxey Hood game.

A Doncaster Rotophoto postcard sent in 1925.

The village of Willoughby is in East Lindsey, 3 miles south of Alford. Its famous son was Captain John Smith of Pocahontas fame. Between 1848 and 1970 it had a station on the East Lincolnshire railway.

Undated postcard by F. Frith.

The buildings which formed the blacksmith's shop remain but are no longer a forge. The white building beyond is the Willoughby Arms, still open as a Bateman's house (as at November 2023). The village shop (rear right) is now residential. The telephone box has gone.

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Willoughton lies 3 miles south of Kirton Lindsey.

The Knights Templar founded a preceptory there during the reign of King Stephen. After the suppression of the order in 1312 the site passed to the Knights Hospitaller in 1338 and King's College, Cambridge in 1540.

Earthworks remain.

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Wilsford has a population of some 400 and lies seven miles north east of Grantham.

Amazingly the village retains a pub and a post office/shop.

This view looks north-east down the minor road from Wilsford Heath.  The parish church of St Mary is seen in the background in the centre of the village.

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Thomas Hotchkin built the spa baths in the late 1830s after discovering health-giving iodine-rich water in a disused well. The well collapsed in 1983 and has been disused ever since.

Wrench series postcard sent from Dewsbury to Bardney in 1920.

This undated photograph looks northwards towards the junction of the A158 and B1202 roads.

The west side of the Market Place, seen here on the left, is relatively unchanged today.

The Manor Farmhouse is the building of 6 bays at the end of the row and immediately before the road junction. The two end bays were demolished to enable the A158 to be widened (see modern photograph of the front of the building).

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Wrangle's Post Office is still in the building shown though it has been extended & is also a Costcutters store (as at Nov 23). The tree & lamppost in front have gone. The far end of the original building contains an Indian takeaway.

Unposted postcard by C. Hall, Post Office Stores, Wrangle