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My Grandfather
I was told by my mother that my grandparents moved to Tattershall in 1912 from Buckinghamshire so my grandfather could find work helping to restore the castle he was a carpenter. His name was William Bywater, known as Roger, they lived in the village for many years.
A memory of Tattershall contributed by Marie Clark
Ancestors from Coningsby
I've been researching my family history and have found that an ancestor of mine known as James Faunt used to live at a place called Packet Beerhouse, in fact he is in the 1891 census as being the "beerhouse keeper". He lived there with his wife Sarah. Is the building still in existence today? Are there any Faunts still living in the Coningsby area? I've been trying to find out more, but so far no success. I am a regular visitor to Grimsby so may nip over to Coningsby and try at the roots...so to speak.
A memory of Coningsby contributed by Adam Dennehy
Memories of My Family
I was not born when my family lived in Kirkby Green but I have heard my mother tell a few stories of life there. She had a pet trout who lived in the Beck which ran past the back garden. She called him Peter and would go down to feed him most days. When he failed to turn up for a few days she blamed the American Airmen who were stationed nearby saying they must have caught him to eat.
The family of Williamsons lived in Mill Cottages. Harry and Flo with John, Mary, Joan, Florence, Eileen and Brian. The older ones went to school in Scopwick and one story is of them walking home during the war. A German ...read more here
A memory of Kirkby Green contributed by Gillian Emerton
No actual memories ...!
Kirkby Green. I was born here in December 1941. My family lived in the house at the side of 'The Beck' which had a water wheel used for driving a mill. My father worked for a local farming family, the Wrights. I have no memories of my life here as we left the area in 1942, but my brothers and sisters have told me about life there. Some years later I was involved in a road accident which resulted in my being in hospital in Lincoln for a while. The person in the next bed to mine was the son of the Wright family my father had worked for, small world.
I paid a visit to see my birthplace as I ...read more here
A memory of Kirkby Green contributed by brian williamson
Extracts From Woodhall Spa & Lincolnshire books
The village lost its medieval church to bombs in World War II and has
expanded much since the War, partly due to Lincoln’s proximity and partly
to the RAF. In this view we look past the Horse and Jockey pub towards the
south of the village; the church is beyond the high tree on the left.
An extract from from"Lincoln Pocket Album".
The village lost its medieval church to bombs in World War II and has
expanded much since the War, partly due to Lincoln’s proximity and partly
to the RAF. In this view we look past the Horse and Jockey pub towards the
south of the village; the church is beyond the high tree on the left.
An extract from from"Lincoln Pocket Album".
Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to
the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street
to the western scarp of the limestone ridge. Consequently much of the
village is built of the local oolitic limestone, which gives it a coherent
character. This view looks north along the High Street.
An extract from from"Lincoln Pocket Album".
Doddington receives many visitors, for Doddington Hall, although privately
owned, is often open to the public. Immediately north-east of the Hall is St
Peter’s Church, almost entirely rebuilt in the 1770s by Thomas Lumby in
partly scholarly Gothic, although a cheery Strawberry Hill Gothick breaks out
here and there, particularly in the west tower.
An extract from from"Lincoln Pocket Album".
Further south is the Foss Dyke. In the middle distance is the site of the
old swing bridge, now replaced by the present 1937 bridge on the A57
bypass upon which the photographer is standing. The arch is that to the
1911 pipe bridge that carries Lincoln’s water from Nottinghamshire. The
present footbridge is a Victorian one placed here in 1987.
An extract from from"Lincoln Pocket Album".