aggiebagwash
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Does anyone have access to a map of Spalding around 1860 I would like to know where the slipway was? I have managed to find the inquest records for the death of a great great grandfather. One of the witness statements says that they were fishing at the Reservoir and the next word looks like by (then two indecipherable words) the next word could be either and or old. The next word is slipway. The sentence reads, We were fishing by ****** and/old slipway.
They lived in Little London so I suppose they would have fished close to home but that's only a guess.
Also what would they have been fishing for does anyone know? 
Margaret
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aggiebagwash
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I thought it could be eels as well. On all the censuses he says fisherman so I had been thinking more of the sea but according to the inquest report they fished on the Fens so it is more likely to be eels as you say.
Thanks for advice about the maps I'll try it now.
Margaret 
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aggiebagwash
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Hi Roger
The only papers I found were on the LFHS web site and I couldn't find anything. Should I be looking somewhere else?
Margaret
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aggiebagwash
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I live outside Manchester so I can't visit the library but I will write to them as you suggest. I love looking at old newspapers and usually get distracted and end up reading every page word for word.
Do you know the history of the fishing industry in Spalding as there were lots of other branches on this line who are fishermen and I'm sure that the fens couldn't have provided enough eels for Spalding?
I'm an historian so have to know everything I can about the area or subject I am researching. LOL
Thanks for your help I really appreciate it.
Margaret
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aggiebagwash
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I always seem to use the wrong words when I google things. LOL
It does look like it was just shallow water fishing rather than deep sea doesn't it. I'll try googling it now. Thanks for the idea Roger.
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Nottschick
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Hi
It would most likely be Surfleet Reservoir, four miles north of Spalding. It still exists and folks still have boats and fish from there so should be easy to find on maps. There is nowhere in Spalding town that has ever been called a reservoir.
You'll find it at Seas End Road, Surfleet on a mapping website.
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aggiebagwash
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I will look on google maps for the reservoir. They lived in Little London so it looks like they had a bit of a walk before they started work but I will check it first.
Thank you so much for the information it looks like I can expand on the story of his last day at last.
Margaret 
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Nottschick
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Geoff - I live only two miles or so from The Res. Trust me - it's there - lock gates, tidal flow etc. The bridge links a row of houses to the outside world, but you can then walk for a considerable way past or across the lock gates and along the river banks.
There is not a lake as you would maybe expect to find - but the whole area has always been called The Res. The lock gates operate to regulate the amount of tidal water in the River Glen which if not monitored would flood the whole village right up to the A16 and beyond.
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