Lincolnshire is more than spud and mud. Here are many accounts of people’s lives as they grew up in Lincolnshire, from working out of the greatest fishing port in the world (Out of Grimsby) to the steel works (Scunthorpe – Crimson Skies); from the first person to have been given the title ‘cat-burglar’ (Delaney) to the Spinning Lady’s life (Larks in the Lincolnshire Marshes). Some titles cover powerful stories of overcoming or accepting enormous social and physical barriers such as ‘From Plough to College’, ‘From the Fens to Westminster’ and ‘I Didn’t Have Cancer for Nothing’. There is also a delightful recount of the Everton family history in the ‘Little Will’ trilogy by Peter Gaston. The complete trilogy is now available through this website – or through any good bookshop Vol I ‘Little Will and Clink Carrot’, Vol II ‘For Better For Worse’ and Vol III ‘Old Men’s Dreams, Young Men’s Visions’. Until Valentine’s day there is a special offer on this trilogy to promote the publication of Little Will in paperback – please search for ‘Little Will Trilogy’ in the search bar.
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This is the story of Hilda Clarke nee Roberts, a young girl growing up between the wars, discovering that her eyesight was much impaired, in comparison to most people. The…
An autobiographical account of a true ‘Lincolnshire Yellow-belly’, born in 1925 in Tattershall, as the second son of the Vicar there. From his early upbringing in Tattershall, preparatory school in…
In these recollections, Ronald J Hill recounts his early years as a railwayman’s son, the struggles of his family in the austerity years after World War II and the formative…
Two sisters, Joyce and (Ruth) Edna Skinner born in 1920 and 1921 respectively, were perhaps typical of many children born into the families of skilled artisans in the years after…
The author, Ray Bell, was born in 1930, in a one-up, one-down, farm labourer’s cottage in Eastgate, within a stone’s throw of the main entrance to the Showground at Heckington. …
Cambridgeshire had been marked out in the 1930s as a county of importance for the RAF. At the outbreak of war there were airfields at Alconbury, Wyton, Waterbeach, Upwood, Oakington…
Slicing through the Fenland the A1073 is a corridor through time – a portal from the past. From the post-Roman silts to the north, near Spalding, the road traverses claylands,…
This is the true story of Lyn Ellis, a remarkable lady born in Bradford, who lived her whole married life in ‘old Lincolnshire’. She made it her mission to allow…
An entertaining and detailed account of Charles Clerke who sailed, as Capt. James Cook’s apprentice, aboard The Endeavour. He was a close friend of Joseph Banks to whom he wrote…
Right up until the Second World War, central government had little to do with the management of local affairs in small market towns. In the absence of civil servants, local…
For over 40 years Bob Oakes (alias Fred Pope) has worked his magic with metal – crafting it into everything from classic architectural ironwork to contemporary sculpture. Though his mother…
This edition is now sold out however there will be a new edition available (hopefully) from April 2022 so please let me know (by the contact page or email) if…
A story of survival, dedication and sheer determination. With background information on the Lancaster bomber and its place in the air offensives of World War II, the place of Bomber…
Katherine Swynford is one of the most famous and enigmatic of medieval women. She has strong connections with Lincolnshire although born around 1350; daughter of Payn de Roet, a knight…
Polly Williams is the pen-name of Pauline Robinson who was well known as ‘The Spinning Lady’. This is an easily readable, very funny at times, account of her life from…
The official History and Illustrated souvenir guide for the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby, in Bomber Command County. This Centre is a family-run museum, set up over the…
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