Hi...... Does the actual photo on the other side hold any clues ?.......bit of a long shot, but someone might recognise something.
I should have said, it's just of a group of men in work clothes, holding muddy shovels and standing in a field next to a dry stone wall. Other than the end of a shed of some kind, there are no other features. I've attached it though, in case anyone comes to this thread looking for info and recognises anyone on the photo.
The 1931 map shows a large ministry of labour training centre just outside Bourne, labelled as Bourne Camp.
Mike
http://maps.nls.uk/view/101591276
Thank you. I didn't think to look at old maps, that's very useful.
It looks like T.I.C. stood for Training Instructional Centre......there were several of them up and down the country in the 1930's, including the one at Bourne, they were initially for the unemployed, to train them, with a view to getting back into work......hope this helps.......Del.
The T.I.C. at Bourne was a residential centre, there were also summer camps at Kirkby Underwood, Pickworth Wood and other places in the vicinity.
That explains a lot. He came from Bolton, so I wondered how he ended up in Lincolnshire. I know he was unemployed in 1933 so a kind of adult YTS of the 30s would make sense. The training worked for him, he worked with heavy horses on farms and then in deliveries until the early 50s.
Looking at the old maps from 1930-1986, some of the trees from the site are still there. They are those along Woodland Avenue and down the centre of the open space bounded by Beech Avenue and Forest Avenue.
David
Thank you.
