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Title: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Thursday 10 March 11 13:39 GMT (UK)
Hi All,

Am currently in the process of scanning numerous old Lincolnshire area photos, having acquired them. There are a few agricultural ones, as well as place-orientated ones, so will post them as I get round to doing them.

For starters, here are the first two, these being two old post cards of Hundleby Church, Spilsby.

Regards

Paul
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Thursday 10 March 11 13:47 GMT (UK)
Hi,

Next up...The George Hotel, Stamford, 1915 (Streetscene)
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Redroger on Thursday 10 March 11 16:42 GMT (UK)
Any Boston photo's to come please?
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: LizzieW on Thursday 10 March 11 16:45 GMT (UK)
Or Holbeach?

I've got photos of Boston and Holbeach taken a couple or so years ago, but I'd love to see some old ones from 1800s.

Lizzie

ps.  Hi Roger - not noticed you on Roots for a few days, was going to e-mail you to see if all was well.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Redroger on Thursday 10 March 11 17:20 GMT (UK)
Fine thanks Lizzie, Been to Doncaster for an Archaeology meeting on Tuesday evening.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Friday 11 March 11 13:05 GMT (UK)
Hi,

It's a family album I'm scanning, the areas being Wainfleet St.Mary, Bratoft, Burgh-le-Marsh...ish, so I'm doubtful that there'll many from the Boston area or others for that matter. You never know though...

Anyway, next up is an aerial view of Burgh-le-Marsh, taken it would seem in the 1950's...

Paul
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Friday 11 March 11 13:09 GMT (UK)
...and another....

Not too sure where this is, can anyone identify the church perhaps? Anyway, appears to be turn of last century...

EDIT: For information, I have recently been able to verify that the this photograph was taken in Willoughby, the church in the background being St. Helen's Church (C of E).
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Friday 11 March 11 13:15 GMT (UK)
Here we have a group of farmers at work. I think this would have been taken in the Wainfleet area...
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: LizzieW on Friday 11 March 11 15:02 GMT (UK)
To me, they look more like labourers working on a road, (or ditch)  than farmers.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Geoff-E on Friday 11 March 11 15:28 GMT (UK)
To me, they look more like labourers working on a road, (or ditch)  than farmers.

Yes some sort of large drainage channel.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Redroger on Friday 11 March 11 16:17 GMT (UK)
Possibly one of the major maintenance jobs on the drainage canals and waterways to ensure they don't silt up and cause flooding. Relatives of mine owned a farm in the Burgh area in the 2nd half of the 19th century so I am very interested.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Redroger on Friday 11 March 11 16:19 GMT (UK)
To me, they look more like labourers working on a road, (or ditch)  than farmers.

Yes some sort of large drainage channel.
Given the general area I wonder if they were preparing for the installation of the large culvert at Thorpe, now known as Thorpe Culvert as a result.?
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Eilleen on Friday 11 March 11 17:06 GMT (UK)
I thought they might be digging for tatties  :) :)
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: Redroger on Friday 11 March 11 17:15 GMT (UK)
If they were Eilleen, then they would be digging into the sides of earth mounds known as graves.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Saturday 12 March 11 00:18 GMT (UK)
Hi,

Ah, Thorpe Culvert. That may well be it, as that's pretty much a stone's throw from the general area this family came from.
Title: Re: Some old Lincolnshire photos...
Post by: PabloC on Saturday 12 March 11 00:55 GMT (UK)
...and another couple. First up, All Saint's Church, Wainfleet, 1907.