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Topic: Bombing raid on Boston 12 Sep 1940 (Read 2836 times)
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linclinks
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My grandmother lived at 97 Harlaxton Road at that time. I remember a chip shop and bus depot at the top of Huntingtower road.
I was was very young when I left Grantham - had just a year at Huntingtower Rd School.But I am having a weeks trip to Lincolnshire tomorrow (always feels like going home) as a well as research I plan to take a trip round places where I lived to take photographs - I did this before, only to have my camera stolen before I had downloded the pics. I shall check out if the house I lived in has a number.
Certain things stick in your mind from when you are young and one memory is of walks in Kitty Briggs Lane which was nearby. I shall probably find that it is covered in houses! I have often wondered who Kitty Briggs was.
Jacky
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My Maternal line are all from Lincolnshire - First Generations include:
Arliss, Armstrong, Baker, Borman, Cartwright, Clark, Dixon, Duckering, Everington, Forman, Freshney, Gadsby, Graves, Hatcliffe, Holmes, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Lacey, Leverton, Lilley, Morton, Oades, Pacey, Priestley, Rickett, Riggall, Rowson, Shaw, Sleaford, Sleight, Smith, Spikin, Taylor, Thacker, Ticklepenny, Tomkins, Tyler, Walton, Ward, Willson, Wood and Wortley.
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Graham Whitehead
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You are evoking memories for me Jacky as I remember Kitty Brigg's Lane and also walks in Wyndham Park (with a boating lake?) from my holidays as a schoolboy (see photo) in Grantham with my two great-aunts and on one occasion with the Kendall great Uncle and Aunt in Huntingtower Rd. I remember having to register at the Food Office on St Peter's Hill/London Rd (near the Tollemache statue) for an emergency ration book or card for the time I was staying in Grantham while rationing continued in the 1950s. Also the pathway underneath Grantham railway station from Huntingtower Rd with the horseshoe framing the entrance at one end and the stirrup at the other end.
I expect this is still to be seen. There was another walk along Belton Lane to ? somebody's Mill. and one could walk all the way to Belton Park, where I stayed with one of the estate carpenters whose wife Mrs Smith had been in the Red Cross with my great aunt Lydia.
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Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.
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David Layne
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Swallows Mill
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linclinks
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I think we should start a new section called nostalgia! I expect the reason I remember Kitty Briggs Lane is because my sister (then age 7 and me age 4) took me for a walk and we saw a stark naked man with a new racing bike. I thought the bike was far more interesting than the man but much consternation was caused when we reported both facts to my mother.
You have jolted my memory to with mention of Wyndham Park - life was uncomplicated then.
Off to Lincolnshire tomorrow and abandoning my long suffering husband. Luffmans are on my list.
Best regards,
Jacky
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My Maternal line are all from Lincolnshire - First Generations include:
Arliss, Armstrong, Baker, Borman, Cartwright, Clark, Dixon, Duckering, Everington, Forman, Freshney, Gadsby, Graves, Hatcliffe, Holmes, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Lacey, Leverton, Lilley, Morton, Oades, Pacey, Priestley, Rickett, Riggall, Rowson, Shaw, Sleaford, Sleight, Smith, Spikin, Taylor, Thacker, Ticklepenny, Tomkins, Tyler, Walton, Ward, Willson, Wood and Wortley.
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Graham Whitehead
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Swallows Mill
That's not the name I remember. Perhaps there was more than one.
Was it Winderby's Mill ? - I think so. Anyone out there know of this.
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Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.
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David Layne
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I jumped the gun and now remember where Swallows Mill was!
Checking I can only find reference to "Manthorpe Mill" but I feel sure it had another name, I will ponder further!
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tup1
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Hi
THe mill is called Willoughbys Mill on Belton Lane and incidentally my Gt Grandparents lived there in the 1930s.
Kathy
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David Layne
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Thanks Kathy I knew you would come up with it. I spent many hours there as a boy fishing and collecting conkers!
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Graham Whitehead
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Hi
THe mill is called Willoughbys Mill on Belton Lane and incidentally my Gt Grandparents lived there in the 1930s.
Kathy
Thank you Kathy, yes I almost got there but not quite, Once I saw it I knew it at once. Does it still exist as a water mill?
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Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.
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tup1
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I have been looking through a leaflet I have on the history of (Harrowby Mill) which was called Willoughbys mill during the Great war when soldiers were stationed at Belton Park it became known as Willoughbys as at that time it was owned by George Willoughby and when George died it was sold to a William Lindsay of Albert Street (a mechanic),and in 1928 the mill it self had become derelict.He leased it to a Johannes Rijeinenberg.At that stage Mr Rijeinenberg and wife occupied one of the two houses that the millhouse had been devided into and the other house being occupied by my Gt Grandparents James and Mary Ellen Avender.It is now a private house.
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