514 SOMERSBY. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY"s

wa;; born here August 6, ;Bog, his father, the Rev. Holywell is a woody dell on the Somersby estate, G. C. Tennyson, being rector of the parish at the time; with a spring flowing from a rock. "Warden Hill" is he succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate in 1851, died an elevated spot on the same estate, and also a plan­ at Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, 6 Oct. 1892, and was tation. buried in Westminster Abbey. A new organ has been presented by Meaburn Staniland esq. J.P. in memory Cloven Hill, a curiously divided eminence, parallel of his nephew, Lieut.-Col. Richard Stanley Worsley with Warden; and Harden's Gap, below Warden, on D.S.O., A.S.C. who lost his life in the Mediterranean the flat, are both on the estate of South Ormsby, be­ on May 4th, 1917, by the torpedoing uf the troopship longing-· to Godfrey Bertram Massingberd-Mundy esq. "Transylvania." Mea burn Staniland esq. J .P. is lord of D.L., J.P. th~ manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay and Sexton, Edward Blades. sand; subsoil, mostly blue and red clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area is Letters through Spilsby. Tetford is the nearest money on acres; rateable value £652; the population in I<:JII order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant was 47 in the civil parish and in the ecclesiastical parish (which includes Bag Enderby) go. The children of this parish attend the school at Tetford Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tEnderby Albert E. farmer, 'l'he Staniland Mea burn J.P. Somersby ha Manor farm Armstrong J oseph, smallholder Rutter Henry, farmer

SOTBY is a parish and village, 3~ milas south-west register dates frotn the year 1658; other registers re­ from East Barkwith statiorf on the Louth and Lincoln lating to this parish from 1695 to 1779 !\re at Baum­ branch o~ the Great ~orthern railway, 16 east-north-e~st ber, and the Rev. James Gornall, rector r888-1904, from L:neoln, 5 east from \Vragby and 8 north-west placed in the parish chest a copy of the transcripts from Horncastle, in the Horncastle division of the in the Archidiaconal Registry, dating from 1556 to county, parts of Lindsey, east division of the wapentake 1590. The living is a discharged rectory, net yearly of Wraggoe, Wragby petty sessional division, Horncastle value from 325 acres of glebe £3o8, including 300 onion and cuunty court district, rural deanery of Wraggoe, acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord archdeaconry of Stow and diocese of Linco:n. The church Chancellor, and held since 1917 by the Rev. Herbert of St. PPter is a small building of stone in the Early Alfred Stead M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, English and Norman styles, consisting "()f chancel, nave who is also vicar of Market Stainton. A rectory room, and an open belfry containing one bell: the chancel was co11structed to huld so persons, was built in r882 by rebuilt in 1857 in the Ea'I"ly Englisb style, frum plan, th~ Rev. James Dombrain M.A. rector 188o-88, on his br l\fr. M. JJrurv. of Lmcoln; and in the course o: tht- premises. The l'"nited Methodist chapel was erected work some mural paint~ugs were disclosed on the splays and opened in r8g4. Lady Alwyne Compton-Vyner, whQ of the chancel windows, representing Our Lord and St. i.- lady of the manor, and the rector are the sole land­ Mary Magdalene, "Relshazzar's Feast" and "The Last owners. The soil is mostly marl; subsoil, marl and Supper," apparently of the 14th century : a large quan- white clay. The chief crops are barley, oats, wheat tity of oyster shells were alsu met with: the arch divid- and turnips. The area is r,646 acres; rateable value, ing the nave and chancel is Early Norman, and very £r,o37; population in 19II, III. massive: there remains a credence table, piscina and a Letters throu~h Lincoln, via Wragby. Wall Letter selJulchral arch, the latter probably covering the tomb Box, at the Rectory. East Barkwith, 3 miles distant, nf the founder, or possibly that of Ralph, a vassal of the is the nearest money order & telegraph office Bishop of Bayeux, who is mentioned in Domesday as The United Parochial schools at Panton & Ranby serve having land in this parish: there are roo sittings. The also for this parish & that of Market Stain ton PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I COMMERCIAL. tDunn Waiter E. farmer, Giebe farm Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tEnder by .John Sydney, farmer, Stead Rev. Herbert .Alfred M.A. tDunn Annie (Mrs.) & Son, farmers, Manor farm • (rector), Rectory Sotby house Grundy Henry, Nag's Head P.H tDunn Albert Freeman, farmer,~Ioor Maltby John, cottage farmer farm Weatherhog John, blacksmith SOUTHORPE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a tsnts use Northorpe churcli. William Embleton-Fox parish, near the river Eau, 2 miles south-west from esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Northorpe and 2 east from Blyton stations on the main soil is clay and loam; subsoil, ~lay and gravel. The line of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes section of the Great chief crops He cereals. The area is 467, acres; rate­ Central railway, and 7 north-east from Gainsborough, in able value, £959; the population in r9u was 41. the Brigg division of the county, parts of Lindsey, Cor­ Letters through Gainsborough. Blyton, 2 miles distant, ringham wapentake, Gainsborough union, petty ses­ is the nearest money order & telegraph office ~ional division and county court district. The inhabi- The children of this place attend the school at Northorpe Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over tPye William, farmer · tClixby Herbert, farmer I Watson Fred, farmer SOUTHREY, see Bardney. SPALDING. SPALDI~G is a seaport, market and union town and I Boume and Stamford, Holbeac'h and Lynn, and also to parish, with a station on the Ea.st Lincolnshire branch of l March, the East Lincolnshire line giving access to the Great Northern railway, 14 miles south from Boston, Boston, Louth, Grimsby and Hull. The Great Eastern 45 south-east from Lincoln, I7 north from Peterborough, and Great Northern joint line hence to Doncaster, pass~s 20 east from Stamford, 10 east from Bourne and 93 from through Sleaford, Lincoln and Gainsborough, giving London, and is bead uf a. county court district, in the direct communication between the Eastern Counties Holland with Boston division of the county, wapentake and the north. A branch line of the Midland and Great and petty ECessional division of Elloe, parts of Holland, Northern joint railways from Bourne to Spalding, con­ :tural deangry of West Elloe, and archdeaconry and strncted in 1893, connects the existing lines with the diocese of Lincoln. Spalding is a member of the port Eastern counties, including the ports of Lynn and Sut­ of Boston, and is the port for Stamford, Market Deep- ton Bridge, thus opening up direct communication with ing and Crowland, having water communication with the Midlands. The Hig-h Bridge over the Welland was the whole county. The river Welland runs through the rebuilt in 1838; there are five other bridges, but for town, dividing it into two portions, the larger of which foot passengers only. is on the north banK: it is navigable for vessels of 120 The town is not incorporated, but was under the con­ tons, by which means a trade in coal, oil-cake and trol of a board of Commissioners under the " Spalding timber is carried on: the course of the river, exwnding 1 Improvement Act of r853." but under the provisions of in a comparatively straight line for 2 miles, constitutes ! the "Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. tha remains of highest antiquity about Spalding, for 73), it is now governed by an Urban District Council of the embankments on each side of the arm of the sea I5 members, and divided into five wards. An Act was or Wash, beginning from the Marsh Rails, are nn- , passed in the year r86o for supplying the town with doubtedly the work of the Romans. The Great Northern j water, which is conducted in pipes from Bourne; the railway has branch lines from here to Peterboro· works are close to the town, on the road to Pinchbeck; DIREOTOBY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. EIPALDIRG,

the capital is £ 13,000; raised iu shares of £10 each. seven stone carvings, the work of a Belgian sculptor, The town is lighted with gas from works the property J. Tner linckx, of Malines, were added to the exterior. of the Urban District Council. Here iH a Friends' meeting-house, a Congregational The parish church of SS. Mary and Nicholas is a chapel in Pinchbeck road, erected in 1821, seating soo ~pacious building, originally Early English, and rebuilt persons, with a branch chapel in Holbeach road, bnilt in 1294, but with many alterations in the Decorated and in 1841, and having 100 sittings ; the Baptist chapel, in Perpendicular styles, some later portions being of Post­ Chapel lane, founded in 1646, has sittings for 650 per­ Reformation date: the plan is complex and anomalous sons, and has a branch chapel on Spalding Common, but, in its original arrangement, it consisted of chancel !eating 200; there are also Primitive Methodist, Wes­ with south aisle, nave with aisles, transept with eastern leyan Methodist, United Methodist chapels, and meet­ and wastern aisles, north porch and an embattled Per­ ing-rooms for the Christadelpliians and the Plymouth pendicular tower, with pinnacles and spire, attached to Brethren. the western bay of the south aisle, and containing a The Cemet11ry, about hall a mile from the town, wa1 clock and 8 bells : to this structure a large rectangular formed at a cost of about £4,500, including the purchase chapel, dedicated to SS. Mary and Thomas a Becket, haa of land and the erection of the two chapels: an addi· been added on the south-east, occupying a portion of tional piece of land, about 2 acres in extent, was pur· the eastern aisle of the transept, and was in 1!4)5 thrown chased in 1876, and the whole is now under the wntrol into the body of the church : the eastern portion of the of the Urban District Council. nave aisles was also doubled and a south porch with The Corn Exchange, erected in 1855-6 by the former turret erected : the total length is 157 feet, and the Improvement Commissioners at a cost of nearly £3,000, • w.idth, at the transept, which corresponds in this respect is a building in the Elizabethan style, with an illuminated to the double aisle of the nave, 92 feet 6 inches : there clock: tht- exchange-room, which is 83 feet long and 43 are monuments to the Johnson and other families, and broad, i!.l fitte;l with stands for corn merchants, and is nearly all the windows are stained, several being memo­ provided with a permanent proscenium for theatrieal rials : the church was extensively repaired and restored ar.d other entertainments: close to the Exchange is tha by the late Sir G. G. Scott R.A. in the year r865, at a Butter Market, opened in 1857, and since much enlarged cost of £ ro,ooo, and further restored in r886 at a cost a'ld improved. of £9oo, including St. Thomas a Becket's or the Lady The Sessions Honse, in the Sheep Market, was erected chapel, on the south side, restored by Canon E. ~Ioore in the year 1842, at a costl of £6,ooo: quarter and petty and Theophilus M. S. J ohnson esq. : there are 1,200 sessions are held here for tl~e parts of Holland. sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates The .Masonic Hall is in Pinchbeck street; the lodge from the year 1538 ; marriages, xsso. The living is a meets once a month. vicarage, net yearly value £582, with residence, in the Ayscoughfee Hall, on the banks of the Welland, is a gift of trnstees, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Edward picturesque and ancien~ mansion; it has, with its gar­ Pountney Gough M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, rural dens, been acquired by the Urban District Council for deparishes of timber and cake. There are several steam and wind f'palding and Pinchbeck. The church at Hawthorn mills for grinding corn. Large quantities of fruit, Bank, erected in 1875 by Miss Johnson at a cost of bulbs and vegetables are also sent over the Great £12,ooo, from designs by R. J. Withers esq . .Adam :Northern and Great Eastern railways to the Londan street, Adelphi, London, is a building of stone, in the markets and manufacturing districts. Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles. crypt, The Town Commissioners purchased the market tolls, ve~try, organ chamber, south porch and a turret con­ formerly belonging to the lord of the manor, for the taining a clock and 2 bells : there are 450 sittings. The sum of about £4,000; the market place was paved with register dates from the year 1875· ThP living i!l a granite in r8]6, and the sheep market with asphalte, vicarage, net yearly value £36o, with residence, in the and permanent iron pens erected. gift of the Bishop of Lincoln, and held since 1913 by The market day is Tuesd~y for corn, cattle. sheep, the Rev . .Arthur Henry Morris, of St_ Aidan's. fowls, vegetables and dairy produce; and on Saturliay, The ecclesiastical parish of St. Paul, FULNEY, was veoge,tables and fruits are ~old. formed Dec. 21, 1S77, from the civil parish of Spalding. Five yearly fairs are held foT cattle and merchandise, The church, together with a vicarage and Sunday school, viz., the first Tuesday after Lincoln fair (April), last was erected in I 88o, the church at a cost of £r6,ooo, Tuesdays in June and August, and September 25th, and and the whole at a cost of £4o,ooo, defrayed by Miss on the Friday before the London great Christmas Charington, w}lo also endowed it with £300 a year, £so market ; also a statute fair for hiring servants in May. being added by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The In Hall place it! a fountain, the gift of the late Mis11 church is a building of red },)rick and Ancaster stone, in M. A. Johnson. the Early English style, after designs hy the late Sir G. The Police Station was erected in r858. Gilbert Scott R.A. and consists of clerestoried nave. There are four banks, and also a savings bank. aisles, vestry, south porch and a western tower with There are also two hotels. pinnacles and spire 129 feet high, containing a clock and The " Lincolnshire, Boston and Spalding Free Press " 8 bells: there are sed ilia and piscina : the font ilr of is published every Tuesday by the Spalding Free Preas Mansfield Woodhouse stone with Purbeck marble shafts, Printing and Publishing Co. Limited; the "Spalding and the pulpit is of carved oak on a stone base : there Guardian " every Friday and the " Spalding and Lin­ are sittings for 350 persons. The register dates from the colnshire Standard," hy the Lincolnshire Standard Co. year r88o. The living is a vicarage, gross ~·early value Limited, issued every Friday. £350, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of The Club House, in Broad street, belongs to the Lincoln and the vicar of Spalding jointly, and held since Spalding Club Company Limit-ed, which ha~ a capital 1878 by the Rev. Richard Guy Ash M.A. of Wadhr.m of £2,5oo, in 250 shares of £ ro each; it was opened in College, Oxford, and chaplain of Spalding union. August, I 87 5, and contains reading, smoking and billiard The church of St. Peter, on the site of the old Abbey, rooms and a bar; there are over 200 members. is a building of red brick in the Early English style, The Christian Association and Literary Institute, in erected in the year 187;;-6 at a cost '"of £1o,ooo, from Spring gardens, opened in thP year r875, is a build­ drsigns by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and con­ ing of red brick in the French Gothic style. and contains sists of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, north porch, organ lecture hall, reading and class room!i, with a library of chamber and a turret containing one bell: the east 1,6oo volumes, and a 'reSiidence for the caretaker. window is stained: this church is served from that of The Spalding Mechanics' In!ri:itnte, in Red LiDn street, SS. Mary and Nicholas: there are 500 sittings. e,;tablished in ril45. contains reading rooms and a library The Catholic church, dedicated to the Immaculate of nearly '!.Boo books; durin!? the year 1888 the library Conception and St. N orbert, in Henrictta street, built in was remodelled and the sum of £so expended on new 1876\ enlarged in 1879• and consecrated by Dr. Heylen, hooks. Bishop of N amur in 1903. is a IJlain edifice of red The Spalding Gentlemen's Society is an antiquarian brick in the Early English style, consisting of nave and and literary sDciety, founded by Maurice Johnson esq. a turret containing one bell: most of the windows are I then residing at .Ayscoughfee Hall, in this town, a man stained. In Sept. rgoB a lady chapel in the form of of considerable note and one of the founders and the first a grotto, a copy of the famous grotto of Lonrdes, and librarian of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The the work of a Belgian artist, M. Jacques Coomans, Spalding society was founded in 1710, se\"en years before was added to the church. This chapel comprises an the formation of the larger society. Among ih earliPat altar of the 17th century, a grotto of Bethlehem, a members were Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. William Stnkeley, Calvary and a has-relief of the Assumption. In 1915 the well-known antiquary, George Vertue, engraver to LIX('S. 17• 516 Sl' ALD L.Pi G. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'S the Society of Antiquaries and one of the first mem­ "Fnlney Farm house/' 1! miles south-east from the bers of the .Academy of Painting, Sir Hans Slosne, town, is a very ancient !rt;ructure, erected in I08o, and is president of the Royal Society, Collins, the landscape supposed to have been the dairy farm of the monastery; painter, Browne Willis, the antiquary, the poets Pope, it is built with a mixture of bricks, stone and concrete, Gray and Addison, and Roger and Samuel Gale. The its walls being 3 feet thick, and in capital preserva­ buildings of the society in Broad street comprise tion; the upper part of the house is supported on a libraries, a. museum and a hall. The society haa grained lower story, and was at one time approached by acquired a valuable collection of ancient books, manu­ a stone staircase outside the building on the south side ; &Cripts and engravings. Ths- museum has been re­ there are still traces of the moat and fishpond, by which organized; members meet monthly, when papers are the building vras surrounded. l'ead on antiquarian and literary subjects, and articles Fulney House, ~~ miles east of the town, is a hand­ of great interest are often exhibited. ~ome brick mansion, surrounded by extensive pleasure 34 Gamlyn's Almshouses, for men and women, fonnded 1 grounds. by Sir John Gamlyn in the year 165o, were rebuilt in · Leopold Charles Harvey esq. is lord of the manor of 1844 in the Gothic style: each inmate receives 3s. 6d. i Spalding, and Edmund Van Houtte Blyton esq. of weekly and one ton of coals yearly. The almshouses I Cawdor House, is lord of the manor of Spalding Crow­ founded by William Willesby have been taken down, land; H,. Aubrey Blyton esq. steward. The land is and a sum of £6o is now equally divided amongst six mostly held by small freeholden. persons, male or female, annually. Mrs. E. Sparke's The -land produces large quantities of wheat, oats and almshouses for six widows were rebuilt in 1812; each market garden produce, also roots, beans and peas; inmate receives 3s. 6d. weekly. The charities for dis­ there is also a fair proportion of fine grazing land. tribution amount to about £20o yearly. The area is ro,6g6 acres of land, 5 r of water, 35 of tidal The Johnson Hospital, built in 1881, and partially en­ water and 24 of foreshire; rateable value, £so,6ai; dowed from bequests of the late Misses E. A. and M. the population in rgn was ro,3o8, including 8 officers A. Johnson (from whom the hospital takes its name), and 132 inmates in the institution and 24 in the John­ at a cost of £4,ooo, is a plain building of red brick, son Hospital. faced with Bath stone, in the Domestic Gothic style, and contains seven wards, three for males, three for females The population of the Urban District wards in rgn and one for children ; also a roof garden for opEcn air was:--Central, r,686; East, r,g81; North, I,918; treatment; there are 24 beds and 2 cots; an operating South, 2,083; West 2,640. theatre was added in 1912 and an X-ray department in The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in Ign 1916. was :-::H. Mary and St. Nicholas (parish church), Th~ Spaldin15 Dispensary, established in 1839, has 7,195; St. John the Baptist, 2,530; St. Paul, 6a3. rooms in the·Johnson Hospital; the number of patients attended for the year ending March, 1918, was about 400. WYKEHAM is an estate in Spalding parish, 3 miles The Urban District Isolation Hospital was erected in north-east from the parish church, and adjoins the 1896 ~t a cost of £400, and will hold 12 patients. parish of Weston St. Mary: here are the remains of a Spalding, as a town, existed before Crowland, and its domestic chapel built by Clement Hatfield, prior of central position in the Mercian kingdom led to the Spalding, and finished in 131I and dedicated to St. erection of a castle, the site of which was at the north Nicholas; it is an exact parallelogram of ashlar, 43 by 22 entrance to the town on the east side ; some vestiges of feet, disposed in three bays, marked by deeply project­ the moat may be distinguished, and a fetter-lock pre­ ing buttresses: the east window is Perpendicular, but served on the spot is believed to have been the veritable the rest are either imperfect or bricked np; a. lychno­ lock of the castle of Ivo Taillebois, Earl of Angers, and scope and sedilia are also covered in a similar way, and nephew of the Conqueror, who resided here, and, dying on either side of the east window are two elegant about III4, was buried in the conventual church. niches: at the south-west corner is an excellent stone There are some 15th century remains of the ant­ spiral staircase, which communicated with the domestic buildings of the ancient Benedictine priory of SS. Mary buildings. Wykeham chapel is a sinecure donative and Nicholas, founded in 1051 by Thorold de Bokenhale,_ benefice, endowed with 12~ acres of glebe, net yearly lieutenant of his father, the Duke of Mercia; these are value £15, in the gift of the governors of Spalding now incorporated into dwelling houses, and consist of a Grammar School, and held by the Rev. Edward Martin turret staircase, the dormitory, an octagonal turret or Tweed l\I.A. of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, prison and portions of the moat: at its dissolution there who is also rector of Burton Goggles. Richard T. were 20 monks, and revenues estimated at £767. Proctor esq. is the landowner. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0. & Telephonic Express Delivery South Ward. Office .-Frederi~k Bolton, postmaster &J distributor of John J oseph Chilvers George Sly stamps, Sheep market W illiam Fletcher Money order & savings bank bullliness transacted from East Ward. g- a.m. till 7 p.m Thomas 0. Mawby I Martin Taylor The Telegraph Office- is open from Q a.m. to 7 p.m. & Fred Sly on sundays from 8.30 to ro a.m There il'! a telegraph office, for delivery on the station West Ward. premises only John Thoma~ Brown 1John Thomas White • Watson Marshall Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Offices:­ Commercial road.---Gilbert Lanham, sub-postmastet Officer~. Winsover road.-Fred Allan, sub-postmaster Clerk, Henry Herbert Harvey, Double street 'l'own Sub-Post Office, Hawthorn bank.-Herbert Felts, Treasurer, Herbert N. Shaw, The National Provincial sub-postmaster & Union Bank of England Limited, Market placo fJost Office, Spalding Common.-William Smith Rey­ Medical Officer of Health, James Ramsay Munro M.D., nolds, sub-postma~ter. Little London i~ the nearest Ch.B.Edin 15 High street . money order office & Spalding the nearest telegraph Surveyor & Superintendent of Works & Building Inspec­ office tor, John Bailey, Ayscoughfee hall, Spaldin_g Post & M. D. & Telephone Call Office, Little London.­ Collector, Waiter B. Crampton, Corn exchange George Crampton, sub-postmaster ' Manager of Gas & Water Departments, Harry Blakey, Albion street L"RBA~ DISTRICT COUNCIL. ~Iarkets, Sanitary & Allotment Inspector, Arthur L. Offices, Corn Exchange. Seymonr, 17 Sheep market Superintendent of Fire Brigade, Jn. Bailey, Winsove~ rd Meeting day,· first wednesday in the month at 3 pm. Members. COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE ELLOE PETTY Chairman, George F. Birch. SESSIONAL DIVISION.

Vice-Chairman, • I Howard Fit:r.alan, Holyrood hou!le, Spalding, chairman Central Ward. 1 England George Frederick I Howard George Frederick Curtois, London road, Long Rsrbert George F10st Grorge Massey J.P I Sntton, Wisbech Gevrge J arvis Massey Gearge, 20 London road, Spalding North Ward. Merry Robert, Littleport, Fleet, Holbea.ch Jc>hn Thom&S Atton i Edwd.Isaac Royce Stspleton Mills William Henry, Eaton grange, Parkstone, Dorilet George Birch Patchett John Sharp, Cllerry farm, Holbeach DIRECTORY.] LINCOLNSHIRE. SPALDING. 517

Proctor Ebenezer Boston, Gosberton, Spalding For bankruptcy pnrpases this court is included in that Riddington Myhill, Ths Willows, Borough Fen, Peter­ of Peterborough ; Howard Williqm Cox, 5 Petty Cury, borough Cambridge, official receiver Royce William Stapleton, Pinchbeck hall, Spalding County Police Stllltion, Sheep market, Joseph Burton, Skelton George, N orthaw, Etchingham Park road, supt.; GPorge Wa.ttam, inspector Fincbley, London N 3 Customs & Excise Office, 4 Cowbit road, Robert Henry Stiles Arthur Jalland, ~ London road, Spalding Hamilton, officer & inspector of corn returns Thompson William Jas. Postland, Drowland, Peterboro' Dispeusary, Johnson Hospital, Prio1'y road, James Welby Edward Montague Earle, Norton house, Norton, Ram~ay Munro M.D.Edia., J. H. Power M.R.C.S. Sheffield . Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. & Samuel Herbert Perry Welby-Everar.l Edward Everard Earle, Gosherton house, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P _.surgeons Gosberton, Spaldin~ Fire Engines, Station street; John Bailey, superinten­ The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Spalding, dent, Winsover road Holbeach, Long Sutton & Sutton Bridge Urban & Johnson Hospital, Priory road, S. H. Perry M.R.C.S. Crowland, Spalding & Holbeach Rural District Coun­ Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician; J. Ramsay Munro cil!!, are ex-officio magistrates ; Clerk to the Magis­ M.D.Edin. & J. H. Power M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. trates, Ashley Kilshaw Maples, £essions ho. Spalding Lond. surgeons ; Miss J. Cooke, matron; Georga Petty Sessions are held at the Sessions house every Massey J.P. hon. sec. ; William Fitzalan Howard,clerk first & third tuesday at I I a. m Masonic Hall, Pinchbeck street Places in the petty sessional division are :-Cowbit, Mechanics' Institute, Red Lion street, Andrew Valentine Crowland, Deeping St. Nicholas, Fleet, Gedney, Ged­ Seymour, secretary ney Hill, Holbeach, Lutton, otherwise Sutton St. Sessions House, Sheep market, Richard Hulton Plaister, Nicholas, Moulton, Pinchbeck, Spalding,Sutton Bridge, keeper Sutton St. Edmund, Sutton St. James, Long Sutton, Shipwrecked Fishermen .& Mariners' Royal Benevolent Little Sutton, Tydd St. Mary, Weston St. Mary, Society; Hon. Representative, C. D. Hall, 37 New road. Whaplode, Whaplode Drove, Central Wingland See advertisement Temperance Hall, Crescent, Fred W alden, sec No. 4 (SPALDING) SUB-COMMITTEE OF HOLLAND Urban District Isolation Hospital, James Ramsay Munro LOCAL PENSION COMMITTEE. M.D., Ch.B.Edin. medical officer; Mrs. Morgan,matrn The following parishes are included in the area of the SP ALDINIG UNION. Sub-District :-Spalding, Cowbit, Deeping St. Nicho­ las, Moulton, Pinchbeck, Pinchbeck West & Weston Board day, alternate mondays, at the Institution, at Meetings are held at the Sessions house on the tuesday n.30 a.m. following the last friday in ea,ch month. Spalding union comprises the ten parishes of Cowbit, Chai..,rm""' an, Councillor J. W. Gleed Deeping St. Nicholas, Donington, Gosberton, Monlton, Clerk, Henry Herbert Harvey, 8 Double street Pinchbeck, Quadring, Spalding, Snrfleet & Weston. Penaion Officer, H. R. Hamiiton, 4 Cowbit road The area of the union is 82,145 acres; rateable value at Michaelmas, 19I7, £I77,8o5; the population in I9II SPALDING RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. was 23,494 The parishes in the District are the same as in the Chairman of the Beard of Guardians, Rev. Frank Field Union with the exception of Spalding. Wayet, The Vicarage, Pinchbeck Council meets at the Union house, monthly. Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee,Ashley Chairman, R. Gleed esq. J.P. Donington Kilsha.w Maples, 23 New road, Spalding Officials. Treasurer, William Lane Claypon, banker, Spalding Clerk, Ashley Kilshaw Maples, 23 New road, Spalding Collectors of Poor Rates :-Spalding, Waiter B. Cramp­ Treasurer, Wm. Lane Claypon, Capital & Counties Bank ton, Corn exchange, Spalding; Deeping St. Nicholas, Medical Officer of Health, Samuel Herbert Perry F. H. Morris, Spalding; Pinchbeck, William Thomas M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. 4 Church st. Spalding Smith, Pinchbock ; Moulton, Edmund Platt, Moulton ; Highway Surveyors, Thomas .Aitken, Spalding; W. T. Surfleet, G. A. Thiselton, Surfleet; Gosberton, Percy Smith, Pinch beck ; Geor[l"e A. Thiselton, Surfleet & M. Doubleday, Gosberton; Cowbit, John Henry Boon, J. Richman, Donington Cowbit; Donington, William H. Cooper, Donington; Sanitary Inspector, .A. Valentine Seymour, 8 Broad st. Weston, Frank P. Fletcher, Weston; Quadring, C. J. Spalding Lillie, Quadring THE TOWN HCSBANDS. Relieving Officer, Gosberton district, George Handford, Gosberton; Spalding district, Edmund Fisher, Cross These are trustees of certain charities formed soon street, Spalding after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th cen­ Vaccination Officers, George Handford, Gosborton; tury: they hold meetings at the Corn Exchange. Edmund Fisher, Cross street, Spalding The following are the gentlemen elect l- Medical Officers, Deeping St. Nicholas district, John J. H. Burg George Jarvis Hugh Power M.R.C.S.Eng. 34 London road, Spald­ David Munro T. 0. Mawby ing; William Edwin Stanton B . .A., L.S.A. Marke\ • A. J. Stiles M.D F. Pennington Deeping & Henry Thomas Bensoq, L.R.C.P.Lond. G. F. Barrell E. W. Bell Market Deeping; Donington district, Edward Morris S. H. Perry L. C. Harvey M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Donington; Gosberton George Massey John T. Atton district, Samuel Tate M.D.Irel. Gosberton; Moulton H. H. Harvey J. T. White district, Bertram Mayhew Bone M.B., C.M.Edin., Rev. A. H. Morris H. S. Maples F.R.C.S.Edin. The Goddards, Moulton; Pinchbeck Fitzalan Howard Frederick Sly district, Wilfred Bobert Burton L.R.C.P.Irel. Pinch­ John Wilson Gleed Rev. E. P. Gough M.A. beck; East Spalding district, James.. Ramsay Munro Rev. R. G. Ash M.A A. K. Maples M.D.Edin. 15 High street, Spalding; West Spaldinll John Henry Bunting Rev. S. Yates district, John Hugh• Power M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. Secretary, W. F'. Howard. Lond. 34 London road, Spalding · PrBLIC ESTABLISHMEXTS. Public Vaccinators, Spalding district, John Hugh Power Cemetery, Pinchbeck road, Elvan Brown, keeper & M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. 34 London road, receiver of fees Spalding; other -districts, same as Medical Officers Corn Exchange, Market place, Alfred Butler, keeper The Institution, a large structure of red brick, about County Court, held at the Sessions house, His Honor half a mile ~rom the town, on the road to "Pinchbeck, Sir George Sherston Baker bart. judge; William was erected in 1835, & will hold 403 inmate11; the Hubbard Clement!!, registrar & high bailiff; Henry schools & infirmary are separate from the main building: Herbert Harvey, 8 Double st. deputy registrar. The the children now ll:ttend the elementary school: Rev. court is generally held first wednesday in every Richard Guy Ash M.A. chaplain; James Bamsay month; the following places are within its jurisdic­ Munro M.D.Edin. medical officer; Hedley A. R. King, tion :-Cowbit, Crowland, Deeping St. Nicholas, master; Mrs. King, matron Donington, Gosberton, Moulton, Pinchbeck, Quadring, SPALDING REGISTRATION DISTRICT. Spalding-, Surfleet, Weston Superintendent Registrar, Ashley Kilshaw Maples, 23 Ct>rtified Bailiffs under the "Law of Distress Amend­ New rd.; deputy,William F'itzalan Howard,Herring la ment Act, 1888," George Kingston, 24 Hall place, Registrars of Births & Deaths, Deeping St. Nicholas sub­ Spalding ; George Hall, New road, Spalding ; Cecil F. district, H. R. Haddon, Deeping St. N icholas ; Doning­ Barrell, Grantham; Frank: Lnmby, Donington 1 ton sub-district, William Henry Cooper, Donington; LINCS. 17t 518 SPALDING. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'S

deputy, Arthur Bartram, Donington; Gosberton sub­ Friends' Meeting House, Double street; 10.30 a. m. & 3 district, Reuben Bevis, Gosberton; deputy, Sam Tate, p.m. ; thurs. 11 a.m Gosberton; Moulton sub-district, Edmund Platt, Baptist, Cha.~el lane, Rev. Harry Spendelow; 10.30 Moulton; deputy, A. E. Herd; Pinchbeck sub-district, a.m. & 6.30 p.nL; wed. 7-30 p.m ..!my Elizabeth Turner, Pinchbeck; deputy, Edith Baptist, Spalding Common; 6.30 p.m Roberta Turner, Pinchbeck; Spalding sub-district, Christadelphi.an, Eureka hall, New road; 10.30 a.m. & Miss L. n. Goodwin, IO Market place, Spalding; 6.30 p.m dPputy, H. W. Quincey Congregational, Pinchbeck stre~, Rev. Samuel Yates; Registrars of Marriages, Samuel Woolley Peake, 23 New 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m road, Spalding; deputy, Herbert Walter Quincey, Congregational, Holbeach road, Rev. Samuel Yates; Pennygate, Spalding; William. Henry Cooper, lJon­ 6.30 p.m ington ; deputy, Arthur Bartram, Donington Pl:ymouth Brethren, Mechanics' Institute, Red Lion st.; 10-45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m ,-- COUNTY OFFICIALS. Primitive Methodist, St. Thomas's road; 10.30 Rev. H. pARTS OF HOLLAND. a.m. & 6 -30 p.m.; we d . 8 p.m W.Hart Coroner for Spalding District, Charles Metheringham Primitive Methodist,LittleLondon; 2.3o&6.3op .m Bows er, Long Sutton; Samuel Septimus Mossop, jun. Unit~ Methodist, Crescent, Rev. & West End, Holbeach, deputy Rev. H. L. S. Birktnshaw (Gosberton); 10.30 a.m. 11; Inspector of Weights & Measures & under the "Shop (J.3o p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m Act, 1912," George Edward Hagan, I Double street "\Vesleyan Methodist, Broad street, Rev. Robert B. Sa.ul Surveyor of Main Roads, South Holland district, Arthur & Rev. J. Kenneir Peel B.A.; 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; WilliB.UJ Lloyd M.I.M. & C.E. Sheep market wed. 7-30 p.m Veterinary Inspectors under the " :Qiseases of .Animals Acts." Frederick Henry Reeks M.R.C.V.S. & H. C. SCHOOLS. Reeks F.R.C.V.S. 24 Red Lion street The Free Grammar School, Priory road, founded in 1588 PUBLIC OFFICERS. by Sir JQonn Gamlyn, was removed to its :present site Assistant Overseer & Assessor & Collector •of Taxes & in 1881; the buildings, constructed of red brick, faced Urban District CounciL Rates, Waiter B. Crampton, with Ancaster stone, in the Queen Anne style, surround Corn exchange a courtyard, the maswr's house occupying the south & Certifying Factory Surgeon, James Ramsay Munro M.D. west fronts; the 11chool has a yearly endowment of Edin. 15 High street £280, out of which the govr~rnors have to provide for Clerk to the Court of Sewers for the Division of Holland the management of the Willesby School.; £3o a year is Elloe, South HollaiJd Drainage Tru:stees, Leopold given for scholarships from the Willesby School & £30 Cha.rles Harvey, Market place, Spalding for scholarships at all the Elementary schools, all these Clerks & Receivers to the Crowland & Cowbit Wash being tenable at the Grammar school; a large Drainage Trustees, - South Holland Embankment chemistry laboratory, costing about £Boo, & an art Trustees, the Fourth District Drainage Trustees & the room have been recently added; the school is now a Deeping St. Nicholas Washes Drainage Board, Cal­ Secondary School under the Board of Education, & is throp & Leopold Harvey, Market place controlled by 14 governors; Fitzalan Howard esq. J.P. Clerks to the Glen Bank Trustees, Calthrop & Leopold chairman; there are now (rg18) about 166• boys & HMvey, Market place; Receiver, Leopold Charles girls in the school & classes; Ernest Charles Chappell Harvey, Market place M.A., LL.D., F.R.G.S. head master; E. V. Spicer Clerk to the Governors of Spalding Ga-ammar School, (art), L. J. Driver B.A. & A. J. Potter F.R.G.S. Leopold Charles Harvey, Market place assistant masters; Miss L. M. Johes B.A. Mi~s D. M. Clerk to the Land & Property 'l'ax Commissioners & Spinks, Miss M. B. McPherson E.A. Miss E. H. Moulton Salt Marsh Drainage Trustees, Leopold Chas. Thwaites B.Sc. Miss A. Beckinsale, Miss L. A. Ash­ Harvey, Market place man & Miss F. E. Whiteley B.A. mistresses Clerks to the River Welland Outfall Trustees & Clerks to Deeping Fen Trustees & the Spalding & Pinchbeck ELEMENTARY & HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE Drainage Trustees, Calthrop & Leopold Harvey, Mar­ ket place COUNTY OF HOLLAND. Clerk to Deeping St. Nicholas Council & Spalding Good­ The Committee consists of 28 members. fellows Schools, William Fitzalan Howard,6 Herring la Chairman (Elementary Education Committee), John Clerk to County Insurance Committee, Cecil Crust, 28 Millington Simpson, Skirbeck road, Boston Red Li{m street Chairman (Higher Education Sub-committee), John W. Harbour Master, John Turner, Angel inn, Double street Gleed M.A. West Elloe, High street, Spalding Receiver of the South Holland General Works & Adven­ Secretary, A. A. Crabtree, Spalding turers & Welland Drainage Taxes, Henry Berbert Accountant, E. T. Waring, Spalding Harvey, 8 Double stroot Office, Sessions hou:se Receiver of Spalding & Pinchbeck Drainage Rates,Ashley Kilshaw Maples, 23 New road Council Schools. Sanitary Inspecto; to Rural District Council, A. Valen­ The Committee of Management consists of six members. tine Seymour, 8 Broad street Chairman, Superintendent of Deeping Fen Drainage, Henry Bain, Clerk, Leopold C. Harvey, Market place King's road The Committee meet at the Central school the last Superintendent of the South Holland Drainage, William thursday in the month at IO a.m. Edward Ashton, Buitte villa, St. Thomas' road Central, W estlode street, erected in 1879, for 400 Superintendent of the River Welland Outfall Drainage, children, & enlarged in 18go-g2, will now hold 818 George Bett; Welland office, Fosdyke children; Henry John White, master; Miss Diana Superintendent to the River Glen Bank Trustees, Henry Izett, mistress: Miss Amy Robinson, infants' mistress Bain, King's road • Church Street Church of England (mixed & infants), Surveyor of Taxes, Harold Kear, Avalon, Priory road erected in 1845 on a site near the church at a cost of Town Crier, James Barton, Double street £I,6oo, since enlarged; it will now hold 495 chil­ dren; Edward H. Andrew, head master; Miss Jane PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services. Lawrance, infants' mistress SS. Mary & Nicholas' Church, Church street, Rev. Marsh, Spalding Marsh (mixed); Edward Pountney Gough M.A. vicar; 8 & 10.30 a.m. mistress & 2.15, 3 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 9.30 a.m. & 5 p.m.; Blue Coat, Church street, founded in 1710; Alaric wed. fri. & holy days, 8 a.m Pinder Boor, master; Mrs. E. M. Thimbleby, mistress St. John the Baptist Church, Hawthorn bank, Rev. Willesby's, Winsover road (boys), founded in r682 by APthur Henry Morris, vicar; 8 & n a. m. & 6.30 William Willesby; it will hold 129 -children; Arthur p.m.; daily, 8 a.m. & 7 p.m Mulley, master St. Peter~s Church, Abbey grounds, served from SS. Goodfellow's, Spalding Common (mixed), erected in .1872 Mary & Nicholas: services suspended during war at a cost of £I,6oo, for 175 children; George .F. St. Paul's, Fulney, Rev. Richard Guy Ash M. A. vicar; Hare, master 11 a.m. & 6.:30 p.m St. John the. Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, erected in 1875• Immaculate Conception & St. Norbert Catholic Church, & since enlarged, for 185 children; Miss I. Brown, Henrietta @troot, Rev. Clement Tyck C.R.P. (prior) & mistress Rev. Frederick Van Santen C.RP. priests; mass, 8 & St. Norbert's Catholic (mixed), Henr1etta street, erected IO.~o a.m.; evening service, 6.30 p.m. sun.; daily in 1876; Mr:s. Ernily Fidler, mistress; Miis Sara}. ma!s, 7 a.m Lynch, infants' mistress DIRECTORY. J LINCOLNSHIRE. SPALDING .. 519 NEWSPAPERS. Donington-Hempsall, ' Red Lion,' tues. & sat Lincolnshire, Boston & Spalding Free Press, Hall place, Fosdyke Machin, 'White Horse,' tues Spalding Free Press Printing & Publishing Co. I.im. ~dneyhill-Mackman, ' Lincoln Arms,' tues pub:ishers; published tues Langtoft-PloWTight, 'Little Bull,' tues Spalding Guardian, 20 Station street, H. L. Gethin, Long Sutton-Vickers, 'Linooln Arms,' tues managing editor; published fri M1nket Deeping-Andrews, 'New Bell,' toes.; Plow­ Spalding & Lincolnshire Standard, Sheep market, Lin­ right, ' Little Bull,' tues colnshire Standard Co. Limited, proprietors & pub­ Pinchbeck West-Dance, 'Greyhound,' tues. thurs. & lifihers ; published fri sat. ; Gray, 'Pied Calf,' tues. wed_ & sat. ; Moon, ' Pied Calf,' tues. & sat.; Dawson. 'Pied Calf,' tues. CONVEY.A.NCE. wed. & sat Railway Station, Winsover road, J. A. Halliday, station Saracen's Head-Elsey, 'White Lion,' tues.; .Andrews, master ' New Bell,' tues Omnibuses leave the ' Red Lion' & the ' White Hart' Sutton St. James-Scrimshaw, 'Little Bull,' tues to meet every train Whaplode Drove Seaton, ' Ramskin,' tues. ; Mackman, ' Lincoln Arms,' tues CARRIERS, with inns they call at & days of depar\ure. Crowland-Everett, 'White Horse,' tues.; Chas. Frisby, Railway Carriers.-sutton & Co. parcels only; Walden 'New Bell,' tues. & fri.; Madison, 'Little Bull,' tues & Sons, agents, 3 & 4 London road PRIVATE BESIDENTS. J Culpin Fred, Eurnley ho. Albert st Hilliam Arthur Berkley, We~tfield, Allenoon John Hy. 184 Winsover rd 1Culpin Misse!l, Esoallonia, Holland Td St. Thomas' road Andrew Edwd. H. 42 St. Thomas' rd Cummings Mrs. 163 Winsover road Hobson Mrs. 35 London- road Arch Arthur, 20 Regent street j Dalton Daniel, Grenoble, Cowbit road Hackney Richd. Hazelwood,Holland rd Armstrong Fred, Dembleby, Broad st David AleMnder, 2 HenTietta l!treet Holdsworth Mrs. 48 Pinchbeck road Ash Rev. Richard Guy M.A. (vicar 1 Dennis James Henry, 31 Crescent Howard Fitzalan J.P. Holyrood ho. of St. Paul's, Fulney & chaplain of' Dent William, 37 Cowbit road Church gate Union), Fulney vicarage Diggle John Harber, 28 London road Howard Wm. Fitzalan, r8 Lond{)n rd .Ashton William Edward,Buittle villa, Dixon Thomas Smith, Bulstrode villa, Izet!t Miss, 4 High street St. Thomas' road Holland road J ane Mrs. Cam bridge villa, Cross st Ashwell Elmit, u Matmore gate Donnington Miss, I Vine stroot Jarvis Geo. Norfolk ho. Spring grdns Atkinson Mrs. Avondale, Holland rd Donnington Rt. Spencer,22 London rd 1 Jepson John, 78 Winsover road Bailey George, Whittington house, Driffill Miss, 8o London road Jepson Samuel, 42 Cross street Stonegate Dnckworth Mrs. Harriet,82 London rd .Judson J oseph, 194 Win saver road Banks William, Mcrcia lodge, Pinch- Edgloy Waiter, 19 Spring gardens Kear Harold, 3 Park Toad beck road Edwards Arthur William, rB High st Kinder John M. 17 Priory road Barker Matthew Edwin, rog Wins- Elderkin Mrs. 16 Priory road King Robert, r85 Wim;over Toad over road Elliott Jn. Broombank, Matmore gate Kingston Ernes.t, 27 Pinchbeck road Bar low Stanley H. 9 Spring gardens Elsom Rev. Isaac, 16 J'inchbeck st Kingston llarolJ, Linton,Pinchbeck rd Barrand William, 21 Green lane Elsom Miss, 14 Pinchbeck street King-ston Mrs. George P. Ingleside, Barrell Gilbert, Claydon, Church st Elsom Mrs_ G. 4) St_ Thomas' road Pinchbeck street Bates Mrs. 5 Henrietta -iltrect Enderby Mrs. 175 WinsoveT road Kingston Samuel, 26 London road Bell E. W., F.C.S. Danum,Holland rd Epton James, 50 Pinchbeck road Knowles Richard H. 77 Winsover rd Bell Mrs. M. 3 Bourn road Fairbrother Mrs. Rose, 9 Priory road Laming Henry, The Laurels, Pinch- Bennett EdwaTd, 8 High street Farrow Ernest Wm. 41 London Toad beck street Birch George Francis, 23 High street Fidler William, 32 Spring gardens Laming Miss, 56 Pinchbeck road Birch Mrs. Chislehurst, High street Fletcher William, 40 Cowbit road Laming Mrs. Joseph, 14 London rd Black Harry, 27 Double street . Freir Miss, 12 The Crescent Laming Mrs. Samuel, 24 London rd Black Tom Harry, I] Church street French John, 15 Churchgate Law Thos. Longton ho. Cowbit rd Blackbourn Edward, 26 Double street George Frederic, The Hollies, Pinch- Le Boeuf Henry Fredk. Market pl Blakey H., M.I.Mun.E. 41 Albion st beck road - Leversley Mrs. C. E. 49 Albert ~treet Blyton Edmund V. H. Cawdor house, . George William E. 38 St. Thomas' rd Limmer George R. 3 Henrietta street Broad street IGethin Henry Lewis, 9 Iligh street Lloyd Arthur W. 2 Cowbft road Blyton Henry Aubrey, 5 Broad street Gibson Mrs. M_ J_ 46 St. Thomas' rd Longbottom George, Stonegate lodge, Bowditch J _ G. Sunnyside, Albert st Gifford Harry, 26 Cross street Church street Branton Thos. Kaolin Holme, Park Td Gleed John W. West Elloe, High st Longstaff Joseph Henry, Pinchbeck st Bratley Percy, Glendare, Holland Td Glenn Richard, H)2 Winsover road Long~taff Mrs. 32 London road Brett Charles, 26 Spring street Gooch Edward Henry, Clay lake Lash James, r64 Winsover road Brown John Thoma.s, Pennygate :Goa.ch Edward William, Hollanrl Louth John Henry, 5 Church siTeet Brumrnitt Miss, 9 Henrietta street I house, High street Lowe John Wm. rs St. Thomas' rd Bulmer John Henry, 24 High street Gough Rev. Edwa.rd Pountney M.A_ MacFarlane Mrs. E. 53 St.Thomas' rd Bunting John Henry J.P_ The Elms,. (vicar of SS_ Mary & Nicholas & Maples Ashley K. 33 London road Pinchbeck Toad rural dean), PaTsonage, Church st ~1.aples Misses, 10 High street Burdett George, 16 London road 1Graham Fred, 8 Henrietta street Maples Mrs. Sycamores, Double street Burg Joseph Henry, Westbourne ldg. Green Miss, 34 Albion street Marshall Watson, 168 WiMover road Cowbit road ~ Greenall isaac, 5 r Pinchbeck Toad Massey Ernest, 39 Spring gardens Burley William, 4 Spring gardens Greenall John T. 38 HawthoTn bank Massey George J.P. 20 London road Oannell Charles, 37 Spring garoens Groom William, 12 High street Merry Major, 13 London road Casswell Mrs. 67 Pinchbeck stTeet :Ground Frederick, r Henrietta street Miller William Henry. rs Priory rd Catt Mrs. 10 Spring gardens Grundy Mrs. 27 Cross street Milne Edward, Haverfield, London rd Oaudwell Miss, 7 Crescent IGuy Mrs. Ann, 5 Stonegate Mitchell Arthur, 39 St. Thomas' road Chappell Ernest Charles M . .A..,LL.D., Hall CDTnelius, 28 Westlode street Morris Rev_ .A.rthur Henry (vicar of F.R.G.S. Grammar school,Prioryrd Halladay Joseph, 46 Stonegate St. John's), St. John~ vicarage, Cherrington Richard, 25 London road Hallam Isaac, 19 Priory road. Hawthorn bank Chester George, 2 King's Toad I Hammant Hezekiah C. II Priory Ni Morrison Mrs.Emma,5o St. Thomas' rd Chilvers John Joseph, Sunnyside, Banns Thomas, 24 .Pinchbeck road Mower Miss Mary E. 65 London road Spalding common Hare George F. School house, Spald- Munro David, 45 Cowbit rood Clayton Robert, 63 Pinchbeck street ing common Munro James Ramsay M.D. High sli Clement<'! Wm.Hubbard, 29 London rd. Hardy Thos. Arch, 43 St. Thomas' rd Naylor John Alfred, 75 Winsover Td Cocks MN. The Cedars, Holland road Hardy William, 64 London road NayloT Walter, 22 Spring street Constable Wm. Shipley ho. Bourn rd Ha;rpham Hrbt. Beechville,Holland rd Newton Mrs. 66 Pinchbeck &treet Cooke Earsham Turner,Albion honse, 1Harris John, 34 Spring gardens Nichols Arthur Wm. 31 Albion street Albion street I Harris John Charles, 20 Pinchbeck rd Osborn Edwd . .A.rden, 36 Cowbit road Cooley Tom, 8 Crescent Hart Rev. H. W. (!Primitive Metho- Overtnn Richard, rB Pinchbeck '\'oa.d Cord.ley Isaac French, 14 Priory road 1 dist), 35 Green lane •Pacey Alfred E. 25 Red Lion street Orabtree Alfred, Fosbrooke house, Harvey H. H. Willesby, Albion street Page Arthur H. Market place Spring gardens Harvey Leopold Chas. 15 London rd Page Miss Florence M., B.A. Welland Crabtree Archibald A-55 Pinchbeck rd Hayes Jn. Wm. Hereward, Regent st hall, London road Cramptoru Waiter B. Chipleigh, Hol- Hearnsha-.v J. W. 7 Market place Parkinson Alfred, 47 St. Thomas' rd land road - I Hilliam .Art h. Mispah lodge, Cross st Peacock Thomas J _ 20 Stonegate Crust Cecil, 46 Pinchbeck road , Peake Samuel, Holland road LINCS. 1 'j + • ()20 SPALDING. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Peel Rev. J. Kenneir B.A. 24 Spring Seymonr Edwin Angnstns Plenty, 21 Temple Mrs. M. II St. Thomas' road gardens Church street Tointon Mrs. 218 Winsover road Pennington Fred, ID Hall place Shadford Mrs. George, The Limes, Tointon Roland, The Limes,Double st Fenning~on Mrs. Harrington house, 1 Double street Tointon Samuel J ames, Elmsford Broad street Sharman Mrs. 9 Broad street house, High street Penningt makers, 15 Sheep mrkt Batterham George, beer retlr. Royal Oak, Spalding corn Andrew Edward, dairyman (firm, Pearson & Andrew), Beales Arthur, cycle agent, 2 New road & Swan street Clay lake Bean Alfred, cabinet maker, 18 Sheep market Andrews William, bulb grower, Roman bank Bean Charles E. house decorator, 8 Spring gardens Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd. oil mers. Railway station Beaver Jane (:Mrs.), shopkeeper, n8 London road .Appleby Robert (exors. of), printers, ID Market place Beeby Frederick W. miller (wind & steam), Lit. London .Archer John William, dairyman, 15 South parade Beeken Harry, bricksetter, 106 London road Archer Stanleyf confectioner, 13 Winsover road Belfitt J oseph, Red Lion family & commercial hotel, Arden Daniel, Hole-in-the-Wall P.H. Hole-in-the-Wall motor car proprietor, motor car garage, livery stable passage keeper & jobmaster & wine & spirit merchant, Market Arden Tom, beer retailer, 25 Bourn road pi. Tel. No. 6g. See advertisement page 40 Ardron Richard, goods agent Midland Railway, Fitzball Bell & Osborn,chemists, druggists & opticians,7Bridge st house, St. ThQmas' road Bennett & Son, butchers, 128 Winsover road Armstrong Fred, farmer, 73 Pinchbeck street Bennett Robert, fruiterer, 21 Albion street .Am old J oseph, hair dresser, Albion street Bennett William, shopkeeper, 7 Double street Ashling Johft, carpenter, Little London Benton .Alethea Mary (Miss), dress maker,31 llavelock st Ashton William Edward, supt. of the South Holland Berrills &. Enderby, drapers & dress makers, 10, 26 Drainage, Buittle villa, St. Thomas' road & 27 Bridge st. & furnishing drapers,71& 72 Double st Ashwell Elmit. stationer, r6 Bridge street Betts Oatherine (Mrs.), Ram Skin inn, Double street Ashwell Thoma.s, butcher, 3 Hall place Billitt & Ward, grocers, 235 Winsover road .Askew Henry, steward of Constitutional club, Broad st Bilsby Charles Burton, builder, 32 Regent street Atlrin .Annie (Miss), hosiery knitter, Manning's stores, Birch G. F. & Son Limited, straw merchants, High 4 Double street street & corn dealers, 2 Bridge street .Atkin Hy. Jsph. brush ma. 7 Glenn aven. Winsover rd Black Harry, butcher, 22 Bridge street Atkin James Cha.s. master mariner, Fern cot. Albert st Elackbourn John Edward, wholesale grocer, !!ee Hallam Atton & Son,stone masons,Io Station st.& 23 Spring gdns & Blackbourn Ayre Edwin Llewellyn, farmer, Cunningham drove Blackburn Edwin, cycle agent, 16 Sheep market & motor Bailey Elizabeth (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 3 We~tlode st garage, Winsover road. See advertisement Bailey John, highway surveyor, Ayscoughfee hall page 41 Bain Henry, supt. of Deeping Fen Drainage & the River Black-stone & Co. Limited, engineers, 33 Hall place Glen Bank trustees, King's road Blakey H., M.I.Mun.E. engineer & manager of the Banks Charles A.. farmer, Holbeach road , Urban -District· gas & water departments, Gas works, Barclays Bank Ltd. (branch), bankers (H. F. Le Breuf, Albion 15treet manager), Market place; draw on head office, 54 Bland William, dairyman, 3 & 4 Church gat"' Lombard street, London E C 3 DIRl:CTORY. J LINCOLNSHIRE. SPALDING. 521 Blyton Edmund Van Houtte, solicitor, & steward of Coupland Richard, refreshment rooms, 4 Cha.pellane llla..:J.Ors of Spaldinll Crowland & East & West Hall, Coxell John, beer retailer, Cowhirne Cockley Cley, Broad streilt Orampton George, shopkeeper, & post office, Lit. Londoa Elyton Henry Aubrey, solicitor, 5 Broad street Cra.mpton John, smallholder, Deeping High bank ~olton Frederick, postmaster & distributor of stamps, Crampton Waiter B. rate collector for Urban District; Sheep market / Council & assistant overseer & assessor & collector of Boots Cash Chemi~tts (Eastern) Ltd. chemists & income & land tax, Corn exchange, Market place & druggistl!, 15 & 16 Station street actuary to the Savings Bank, Hall place Bower Robert Samuel, chiropodist, 91 London road Crampton William, milk dealer, 24 Spring street Bowman Waiter William, farmer, Spalding common Creamer Herbert Frederick, wheelwright, Fulney Bratley & Sons, ironmongers, 1-2 Bridge street Cross Elizabeth (Miss), confectioner, 15 Winsover road Brett Alfred, builder, 27 St. Thomas' road Crosstuck Reuben William, cottage farmer, Decoy farm ~ Bridges J oseph, farmer, Low Fulney Crowther Ethel (Miss), shopkeeper, 53 London road British & Argentine Meat Co. Ltd.butchers,IB Station st Croxford John A. bulb grower, Fulney bridge Brown Albert, tailor, 42 London road Croxford Max, Pigeon inn, Holbeach road Brown Alexander, hair dresser, 24 Bridge street Crust Richard &; Son, market gardeners, 13 Ohurch gate Brown Elvan, keeper & receiver of fees at the cemetery, Crust Cecil, solicitor & commissioner for oaths, & clerk Pinchbeck r()ad to County Insurance Committee, 28 Red Lion streel; Brown George, cottage farmer, Spalding common Culpin Frederick, bulb grower & farmer, Low road Brnmmitt Margaret M. (Mrs.), milliner, 9 Foundry lane Culpin SidneJr, bulb & fruit grower, The Chestnuts, Bryan John, beer retailer, Green Man, Spalding common Low road • Bullock Letitia. (Mrs.), apartments, 23 St. Thomas' road Curry H. & Sons, cycle agts. 6a, Bridge st. & 26 Hall pl Bunting Jn. Hy.farmer & grazier,The Elms,Pinchbeck rd Curtis Maria (Miss), shopkeeper, 8 Berring lan~ Burchnall Florence & Nellie (Misses), fancy repository, Customs & Excise Office (Rubert Henry Hamilwn, 8 Station stroot officer), 4 Cowbit road Burgess Arthur, goods agent Great Northern railway, Cuttoo John Thomas, market gardener, Holbeach l"(l&d 41 St. Thoma,s' road D' All corn & SDn, potato merchants, 81 London road Burrell P. G. & Son, cabinet makers, 46 Westlode street Dalton M. & Son, furniture dlrs. 227 & 228 Winsover rd & 18 New road Darley Jason, smallholder, Deeping High bank Burrell Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 22 Park road Dawson Harry, fried fish retailer, 14 Winsover road Burton Joseph, supt. of police, Sheep market Delahoy C. & Sons, tailors, 33 & 30 New road Bu.tler Alfred, Corn exchange keeper, Market place Delahoy Frederick, tailor, 23 Bridge street Butters John Limited, pawnbrokers, 3i: New road Dennis H. Elaton, dental surgery, 31 Crescent Calthrop & Loopold Harvey, solicitors, clerks t{) the Dennison Thomas Henry, farmer, Burr lane Deeping Fen Drainage Trustees, the River Welland Dexter Adam, New Bell P.H. London road Drainage Trustees, Spalding & Pinchbeck Drainage Digby .A.rthur, draper, 3 Park road Trustees, River Glen Bank Trustees, clerks & receivers Diggle John Harber, district commissioner of the Food to the Deeping St. Nicholas Washes Drainage Board, Production Department of the Board of Agriculture the &mth HoUand Embankment DrainagtJ Trustees, for the Administrative Counties of Lindsey, Kesteven, - the Crowland & Cowbit Washes Drainage Trustees & Holland, Rutland, Nottingham & the Soke of Peter­ tlhe Fourth District Drainage Trustees, Market place borough, 28 London road Capital & Countie~ Bank Limited (William Henry Dispensary (J. Ramsay Munro M.D.Edin;, J. H. Power Shave, manager), Market place (open 9 till 3, tuea. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. & Samuel Herbert Perry M.R.C.S. 9 till 4, sat. 9 till 12); draw on head office, 39 Thread­ Eng., L.R.C.P .Land. surgeons), J ohnson hospital, • ne{)dle street, London E C 2 Priory road Carter & Sons, butchers, Francis street - Dixon & Smith, produce merchants & growers & bulb Carter Abraham, general dealer, Commercial road growers, Low road. T A "Dixon & Smith" Carter Charles, horse slaughterer, 22 Swan street Dixon Thomas Smith, grocer, I Bridge street Cash &; Co. (W. & E. Turner Limited), boot & shoe Dodd George, blacksmith, High st. & Holbeach road maker._ _14 Sheep market Donington & Co. (L W. Hearnshaw & R. S. Donington), Catt F. (Mrs.), draper, see Stubbs & Catt wholesale & retail chemists & druggists & oil & color Cemet-ery (Elvan Brown, keeper & receiver of. fees), men, 7 Market place &i 13 Sheep market Pinchbeck road Dorrofield J oseph, grocer, so Cross street Chapman Thomas, smallholder, Deeping High bank Downs John T. confectioner, 6 Winsover road Chapman Thomas, stone mason, 7 Pinchbeck street Drewery Wm. thra~hing machine owner, Little London Chatterton George William, farmer, Fulney house Durance Edward, Lincoln Arms P.H. 4 Bridge street Chester George, grocer, 32 New road Ea"son Thomas, coach builder, 33 Westlode street Chilvera .John Joseph, auctioneer, valuer & land Edgley Waiter, grocer, 18 Market place agent, 3 Sheep market; & at Donington; & bulb Edwards Arthur Wm. bulb grower & florist, 18 High st g7ower, Spalding common Edward!'l Geo. A. harness maker, 5 Market pi.& Crescent Christmas William, beer retailer, II Double street Edwards Thomas, timber merchant, 20 Chapel lane Clark Henry, Black Swan hotel, New road Egar James William, tailor, 44 & 45 Albion street Clarke Philip, bulb grower & market gardener, 41 · E!derkin & Son, china & glass warehouse, 17 Broad st Cowbit road E!ey John Henry, builder, 15 & 16 Cowbit road Claypole & Son, pianoforte dealers, 21a, Bridge street EIP>y William W. builder, London road Clayton John Robert, ironmonger, 26 Winsover road Elliott Herbert Wm. insurance agent, 177 Winsover rd Clements William Hubbard, solicitor & commissioner for Elliott Percy, dental surgery, 224 Winsover road oaths & registrar of the County Court,Sheep market; Elsom George, seed merchant & rope manufacturer, & at Sleaford 9 Market place; also at 30 Market place, Boston & Coaten Edith (Miss), teacher of music, 24 Regent 1St High street, Holbeach Cobb William, ~>hoeing smith, New road Emmitt Fred, Robin Hood P.H. I Bourn road Colburn Thomas, hair dresser, 31 Hall place Evans Alexander, White Horse P.B. Churchgate Cole Joseph, draper, 24 Winsover road Exton William, sen. farmer, South drove Collins James William, greengrocer, 15 Broad street Facer Henry, harness maker, 6 London road Connell Edith (Mrs.), dress maker, 39 Pinchbeck road. 1 Fall Harry, beer retailer, go London road Constitutional Club Limited (Edward H. Andrew, sec.), Farrow Ernest. Wm. farmer, Horse Shoe mills,Cuckoo rd Broad street I Faulkner Betsy (Mrs.), greengrocer, 4a., St. Thomas' rd Cook Bristo, farmer, Cuckoo road Faulkner Charles, tailor, 59 St. Thomas' road Cooke Earslmm Turner, coal merchant, St-ation yard Fawcett. Thomas, watch repairer, 92 Commercial road Cooke Frank, farmer, Town End manor "Fawn Clark, ironmonger, 17 Bridge street Cooke Robert, fa.rmer & cultivator, Oxford house, Pinch- Felts Herbt. shopkpr. & post office, 100 Hawthorn bank beck road Fenn Waiter, farmer. Red house, Low road Coole "Ernest, sewing machine dealer, 9 Francis street Fidler John, chimney sweeper, 171 Winsover road Corn Exchange (Alfred Butler, keeper), Market place Fisher Edmund, relieving officer for Spalding district & Cotwn Thomas, grocer, 43 Double street· vaccination officer for Spalding & Moulton districts, Cotton Wm. market gardener, Argyle, Hawthorn bank 19 Cross street Coulson Mary' Jane (Mrs.), dress maker,215 Winsover rd Fletcher William, ~utfitter, 6 Market place County Court (His Honor Sir George S. Baker hart. ; Flint John, farmer, Spalding marsh William Hubbard Clements, registrar & high b~iliff), Ford John William, beer retailer, Little London Sessions honse, She-ep market Foreman & Son, wheelwrights, Comm~ial road County Police Station (Joseph Burton, superintendent; Forman A McDonald, dental surgerr. Station street George Wattam, inspector), Sheep market Foster John George, smallholder, Deeping High bank County Toilet Saloon (The), hair dressers. 4 N~w road Foster Waiter, farmer, Pennygate 522 RP,ALDING. LINCOLNSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Francis Wesley S. dental surgery, 17 Spring gardens Harwood Ernest, thrashing machine owner,Spalding corn Freeman, Hardy & Willis Limited, boot & shoo makers, Haw Bentley, shoeing smith, Sheep market 4 Ma.rket place & 8 Hall place Hayes Henry, fishmonger, 9 Bridge street Frost Herbert George, draper, 27 & 28 Crescent Healey H. & Sons, fruit growers & ma.rket gardeners, Ganfell lsaac, corn & flour merchant, I High street II2 Winsover road & St. Thomas' road Gas & Water Departments (Urban District Council, pro- Hewson William, inspector Spalding station, G.N.R. prietors; H. Blakey M.I.Mun.E. engineer & manager); Stepping Stone villa, King's road offices, Gas works, Albion street Hickman Fredk. & Reynolds Henry Westland, farmers, George Frederick, plumber, Victoria street Decoy farm Gibbs George William, boot & shoe maker, 22 Hall pl Hill E. C. draper, Market place Gibbs Sidney William, boot J"epairer, 75 Pinchbeck st Hobaon &. Co. drapers, milliners & dress makers, II Gifford Harry, cycle agent, 44 London road Market place Gleed John Wilson, wine & spirit merchant & beer Hockerson Elizabeth (Mrs.), yeast agent, 25 New road bottler, Red Lion street Hackney .Annie (Mrs.), temperance hotel, Market place Glenn R. & Son (William Glenn), coal & coke mer­ Holden Isaac, confectioner, 13 New road chants, G. N. R. station yard Hole James & Co. Limited (branch office), brewers, 3 Gollin Frederick, tailor, 32 Crescent Sheep market Holland County Council Weights & Measures Office Gooch Edward Henry, bulb & fruit grower, Clay (George Edward Hagan, inspector), I Double street lake. T N 84 Holmes James, farmer, Clay lake Gooch Edward William, fellmonger & farmer, Clay lake Home & Colonial Stores Limited, grocers &c. 7 Hall pl & High street. T N's 84 & 92. Houldin Thomas H. potato merchant, 41 Stonegate Goodwin Louie B. (Miss), registrar of births & deaths Howard Joseph, motor car proprietor, 110 Winsover rd for Spalding sub-district, 10 Market place Howard William Fitzalan, solicitor, & clerk to Deeping Goole Pure Tillage Co. Limited, manure manufactrs St. Nicholas Council & Spalding Goodfellows schools, Gosling E. & Sons, boot dealers, 22I Winsover road 6 Herring lane · Gostelow John Samuel, fruit, asparagus & bulb grower, Hurling Hy. bulb grower & market gardnr.Little London Fulney Hurling Richard, shopkeeper, 62 Albion street Goulding Robert, tobacconist, II ~ew road Hurn George Thomas, tailor, Crescent Green Arthur Stanley M.B., B.S.Lond. physician & sur- Hurrey John, market gardener, 40 Albert street geon, Hall Place chmbrs. ; & at Lincoln & Swallowbck Hurrey Henry, smallholder, Deeping High bank Green Ellen Bowman (Mrs.),beer retlr. 238 Winsover rd International Tea Co.'s Stores Limited, grocers & tea Green Samuel Upton, grocer, 22 Station street dealers, 6 Hall place Greenall Isa.ac Earl, furniture dealer, 9 & IO New road Ives William, farmer, South drove Greenaway B€njamin, fruit grower, Claylake road Jackson M. B. & Co. dyers & cleaners, 25 New road Gresswell John Barton, The Still Vaults P.H. 39 West· Jacob Luke, market gardnr.& bulb grower,1orLondon rd lode street Ja.mes Amos, baker, 76 Commercial road Groom William, english & foreign timber & builders' James George, shopkeeper, 55 A.lbert street merchant, potato chitting box maker, horticultural James Thomas, grocer, 16 Albion street builder, rustic worker, fence, gate, hurdle, ladder & Jepson Sam, commcl. trav.Cambridge ho~St.Thomas' rd portable house manufacturer, creosoter, saw mills, Jepson William, builders' merchant, 22 Spring gardens insurance agent & drain pipe merchant, South Holland Jinks Sarah (Mrs~& Fred, farmers, Holbeach road saw mills. TN 72. See advertisement page 3 9 Johnson Brothers, agricultural implement agents & Ground Kate (Mrs.),brewer & spirit mer.23 Winsover rd engineers, whole~ale & retail ironmongers, gasfitters Grunnell Robert S. bulb grower, Bourn road & hot & cold water engineers, I Church gate. T N 43 Guy & Son, furniture dealers & removers, 34 New road Johnson Hospital (S. H. Perry M.R.C.S. physician; J. Guy Reuben Charles, grocer, I Hawthorn bank Ramsay Munro M.D.Edin. & J. H. Power M.R.C.S., Guy Thomas, furniture dealer, 21 Crescent L.R.C.P. surgeons; Miss J. Cooke, matron; George Gyde Alfred S. photographer, 5 New road Ma~sey J .P. hon. sec.; William Fitzalan Boward, Hagan George Edward, in~pector of weights & measures clerk), Priory road to the Administrative County Council for the parts of Johnson Fred, builder, St. Thomas' road Holland, I Double street Johnson Thomas, baker, Little London Bales Arthur, farmer, Deeping High bank Jones George, decorator, 30 Albion street Hall George & Son, auctioneers, valuers, appraiser~, Jubb Ben, insurance agent, 2 Cross street accountants, house, lanQ, e5tate, insurance & shipping Judson J oseph, insurance supt. 194 Wins over road ag-ents & receiving agents for Midland Railway Co. Kear Harold, 8nrveyor of taxes, Priory road New road • Kempston Mordecai, White Swan P.H. New road Hallam & Blackbourn, wholesale grocers, Double street Killingworth Charles, fruiterer, florist, nurseryman & retail grocers, IB Hall place. See advertise­ & seedsrnan, 6 & 7 Station street & Latimer nurseries, ment page 4 0 Pinchbeck road Hallas Gertrude Mary (Mrs.), confectioner, 9 Station st Killingworth James, market gardener, 68 Winsover road Hamilton Rohert Henry, customs & excise officer, 4 King J oseph, iron & tin plate worker, 25 Park road Cowbit road Kingston S. & G. auctioneers, valuers & land & in- Hancock Edward, coal & corn merchant,239 Winsover rd -surance agent~, agents for J (}S. Fi!'-~son .Arthur, insurance agent, II Havelock street Scampion Walter, Royal Oak P.H. 21 Cowbit road National Provincial & Union Bank of England Limited Scott George Robert, smallholder, Cowbit house, Deep- (branch) (Herbert N. Shaw, manager), 22 &; 23 Market ing High bank pl.; draw on head office, IS Bishop!!gate, London EC2 Scupham Charles Wardle, pork pie ma. 26 Market pl Naylor CharlBS, bill poster, Park road • Searby Henry, farmer, Cuckoo road Neal Annie (Miss), fancy repository, 19 Station street Seaton Herbert, baker, 4 Oorrunercial road Nelson Harriet A. (Mrs.), wardrobe dlr. 38 Winsover rd Selby & Co. (W. W. Selby), g-rocers, 30 Hall place Nichols .Arthur W. grocer, 34 & 35 High street Sentence Jo5eph, farmer, Fulney Nicholson Moses B. confectioner, 76 Pinchbeck street Seymour Andrew Valentine, tobacconist, 8 Broad street North British & Mercantile Fire &; Life Insurance Co. Seymour .A.rthur L. sanitary, markets & allotment in- Railway Passengers' Assurance Co. for motor car spector & tobacconist, 17 Sheep market policies &; burglary insurance & Nurwich Union .Acci­ Shadford &; Co. (James Epton), chemist!!, 21 Market pl dent Insurance Association (S. & G. Kingston, agents), Sharman Frederiek William, farmer, Marsh road Hall Place cham hers Sharman John George, dairy farmer, Fulney hall Pacey Alfred E. baker, & tea & refreshment rooms, 22 &; Shave William Henry, manager of Capital & Counties 23 Red Lion street Bank Limited & insurance agent, Norwich Union Fire Pack George, blacksmith, Little London &; Life & Hailstorm Accident, Scottish Widows' Life Padley Thomas, insurance agent, 44 Ha~lock street & London & Lancashire Fire, Market place Page Arthnr H. manager of London City & Midland Shaw Herbert N. manager of National Provincial & Bank Limited, Market place Union Bank of England Limited &; insurance agent, 22 & 23 Market place 524 SPALDING. LINCOLNSlliRE .. [KELLY'S

Shaw John, dental surgery (attends tues.), 3 Hall place Spikins John, confectioner, 6 Sheep market Shepherd Lena. (Mrs.), dress maker, 33 Crescent Spooncer Thomas H. fruit grower, Pennygate Shepperson William, farmer, Pennygate Spriggs J obn, shopkeeper, 37 Westlode street Shillaker Lois (Miss), fancy draper, 8 Bridge street Stagles .J, & Son, fruit & bulb growers, Pennygate Showier Amy B. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 204 Winsover road Stanger D. & Son, carriage builders, 20 ~ew road Simpson Thomas, harness maker, 7 London road Stanger JSutterby Richard, potato agent, 4 King's road Smm-t Mary (Miss), dre~s maker, II Church street Symes Susan (Mrs.), dress maker, 6 Pinchbeck street Smith James & Sons, dyers & cleaners, 3 New road Tarry Thomas, boot maker, Mercers row Smith W. H. & Son, booksellers, Railway ~tation Taylor George, wheelwright & carpenter, Spalding commn Smith &:. Son, produce merchants, PinGhbeck street. Taylor Harry, watch maker, 21 New road T N 102 Taylor .Tames William, poulterer, 14 Double ~treet Smith Alfred, beer retailer, 36 Westlode street Taylor John Wingfield Ross, joiner, Spring gardens Smith Charles, cattle dealer, Fulney Taylor Joseph, clothier, 29 Chapel lane Smith Dmd, produce merchant & bulb grower (firm, Taylor Lucy (Mrs.), smallholder, Lower Fulney Dixon & Smith), Rose villa, Low road Taylor Martin, market gardener, 13 Albion street Smith E. (Mrs.), stewardess Spalding club, Broad street Taylor Mary Jane (Miss), shopkeeper, 41 Westlode street Smith Edward, farmer, Monk's house, Bourn road Taylor Samuel Benjamin, brewery mgr. The Tower la Smith Edward M. artist, 13 St. Thomas' road Temperance Hall (Fred Walden, sec.), Crescent Smith F. Holdich, potato merchant, Southernwood, Mat- Temple George C. fruit grower, Cunningham drove more gate Thorlby Robert, farmer, Cuckoo road Smith George, beer retaner, g6 Commercial road Thorpe Francis William, shoe maker, 16 Red Lion street Smith George Henry, market gardener, Holbeach road Thorpe Mark, White Lion hotel, High street Smith Jane (Mrs.). Pied Bull inn, I2I Winsover road Thorpe S. draper, 17 Station street Smith John William, Greyhound P.H. Broad street Thorpe Willie, farmer, Cowbit road Smith Richard, builder, Double street & 25 Pennygate Tidswell James, shopkeeper, Little Londo11. Smith Samuel, umbrella maker, 23 Crescent Tomlin William, clo~hier, 23 Hall place Smith Waiter, photographer, 1 Sheep market Tomlinson James, cattle dea.ler, 13 Crescent Soames &. Co. Limited, brewers, maltsters & spirit Trengrove John D. musical instrument seller, 12 Vine st 'l'revis S. A. (Mrs.), temperance hotel, 11 Station street merchants, Cowbit road Sowerby & Co. Limited, seed crushers Turner Fred, fried fish dealer, Red Lion street Spalding Christian Association & Literary Institute Turner Henry, confectioner, 8 Francis street Turner John, Angel inn, & harbour master, Double st (William Atton, sec.), Spring gardens Turner's Clothing Stores (A. R. Turner), outfitters, 15 Spalding Club Go. Limited (William White, chairman; Bridge street. _ See advertisement page 41 Stephen Henry Searby, sec.), Broad 11treet Turner's Domestic Stores (A. R. Turner), general Spald~ng Day Nursery (Miss J. Sampson, matron), 44 dealers, 14 Bridge street Double street Twelvetrees Joseph, carpenter & joiner, Vine street & Spalding District Liberal Club Co. l.imited (Charles 30 St. Thomas' road Rayner, ·hon. sec.), Crescent Tyler Arthur, tobacconist, 20 Bridge street Spalding Division Conservative & Unionist Association Vausc Chas. Freshney, house painter, 48 St. Thoma~' rd (George Sait, s~c. & agent), Constitutional club, ·wade Arthur, market gardener, 49 Hawthorn bank Broad street • Wadsley & Son, monumental masons, 79 Westlode st Spalding Division Liberal Association (Arthur C.Nainby, Wads worth John Charle~, builder, 21 Park road organising sec. & Liberal agent), 3 Crescent Wain William, Ship Albion hotel, Alhion street Spalding Fishing Club (Mordecai Kempston, hon. sec.), Walden &. Sons, grocers & egg merchants, 3 &:; 4 White Swan, New road & & Spalding Free Press Printing &. Publishing Co. London road agents for Sutt

White Hart Hotel {family & commercial); motor W illcox Alfred T. butcher, 25 Ball place garage i stock room; posting in all its branches Willders & Son, solicitors (attend on tues.), 19 Bridge at (Home Conntie! Public House Trust Limited, pro­ Williamson Caroline (Miss), tea rooms, 8 New road prietors; Fredk. Thos. Jealous, manager), Market pl Williamson Herbert James, shopkeeper, 17 Spring st White Alfred Willis, farmer, Little London Williamson John William, photographer, 19 Winsover-Td White George Edward, insur. agent, Avondale,Pennygate Williamson Robert, baker, 2 & 3 High street White Harold William, coach builder, Westlode street Wilson Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 82 Commercial road White Henry Willis, bulb grower, Cradge bank Wilson William, milk !leller, Cowbit road White Tom A. auctioneer, valuer & estate agent, Windsor Rhoda (Miss), pianoforte teacher, 48a, Park rl Sheep- market; & at Holbeach. See advertise­ Winyard Waiter, general dealer, 89 Commercial road ment page 41 Wiseman John Joseph, hawker, 19 St. Thomas' road White Walter, butcher, 4 Ball place Wooldridge Henrietta (Mrs.), shopkpr-34 Commercial rd Whit.field J. S. coal merchant, 25 Cowbit road Woolley C. P. & Son, joiners, Church street Wbyle;~ Florence (Mrs.), greengrocer, 14 New road Woolley James, farmer, Spalding aummon Wilcox Henry, market gardener, 23 Albion street \Voolsey ThDmas, asphalter, 21 Double street Wilkinson George Francis, china dealer, 5 Double street W ootton George, draper, 20 Willow walk Wilkinson's (Charles P. Martin),ironmongers,5 Bridge st Workman's Institute (Charles Crust, sec.), Holbeach rd Willcox .Alfred, market gardener, fruit & bulb grower, Wright Jason Draper, basket maker, 15 Double street 5 Swan street ) SP ANBY is a parish and village, 2 miles south from of the Hon. l\Irs. Needham and Mrs. Barnett, and held Aswarby station on the Bourne and Sleaford branch of the since 188o by the Rev. Richard Henry Mann B.A. of Great Northern railway, 3! north-east from Folkingham Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who resides at Swaton. and 6 south from Sleaford, in the Grantham division There is a small Mission hall here, erected in 1910. of the county, parts of Kesteven, Aveland wapentake, William Alfred Cragg- esq. who is lord of the manor. Sleaford petty sessional division, union and county court and George Smith esq. of Burbling, are the principal district, rural deanery of Aveland, and archdeaconry landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. and diocese of Lincoln. The churc'h of St. Nicholas, re­ The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area il!l built in 1882, at a cos!! of £'J6s, is a small building of reil 1,041 acres; rateable value, £985; population in 1911, brick with red Ancaster stone dressings in the Early 104· English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, west Letters through Folkingham, Lines. Wall Letter Ecx. porch and a bell turret containing one bell : there are 65 The nearest money order & telegraph uffice is at sittings. The register dates from the year 168 I. The Osbournby, about 1 mile distant living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Swaton, joint net yearly value £325, with residence, in the gift The children of this place attend the school at Osbournby COMMERCIAL. Gratrix William, farmer Proctor Edward, farmer Marked thus t farm 150 acres or over. tKitchen John, farmer Rastall George Henry, farmer Dickens William, farmer Lord Martha (Mrs.), farmer Wilkinson William, farmer SPILSBY is a small market town on the road from John, 3rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, the bead resting on Bo~ton to Louth, in a pleasant position on nn acclivity 1 a mantled helmet and the feet on an animal, and around overlooking a vast tract of marsh and fen land, extending the cornice of the upper slab are litt~e figures of monka southward to the Boston Deeps, with a terminal st.ation holding scrolls,sW.ves and rosanes; this baron is meHtioned on a branch of the Great Northern railway, and is 17 by Froissart as one of the most distinguished knights of miles north-east from Boston, 10 east-south-east from · his time; he fought most valia.ntly at Poictiers, St>ptember Horncastle, 16 south-by-east from Louth, 8 south-west lgth, 1356; took part in the subsequent invasion of France from Alford, 9 north-wes·t from Wainfleet and 126 from by Edward III. and the Black Prince, and died in 1372: 3· London, and is the head of a union and county court An altar-tomb of alabaster; on the coped slab above are district and petty sessional division, in the Horncastle re cum bent effigies of Robert, 4th Baron Willougbby de division of the county, parts of Lindsey, east division ot Eresby, ob. 1396, and his 3rd wife, Elizabeth, daughter Bolingbroke soke, rural deanery of South Hill, and arch- and heiress of Lord Latimer, and widow of Lord Nevill, of deaconry and dioce-se of Lincoln. The Spil.-by and Firsby I Raby; the figure of thb baron is in full armour, with the branch of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company wa.s head resting on a helmet surmounted by the Willoughby opened in 1868. The town is well built and consists crest, and the feet on a lion; that of the lady is verr chiefly of two streets and the Market place, which is inter- richly habited, the head resting on two cushions sup· 0 sooted in the centre by a row of houses. It is lighted with pc•rted by figures of monks, and at the feet three pet gas from works in the Ashby road, erected in 1854, and dcgs: ~- A brass, with effigy, to Margaret, daughter of belonging to a company. William, Lord Zouch, and 2nd wife of Bobert, 4th Baron A new water supply was opened in July, 19o8, by the Willoughby de Eresby; around the figure are eight North East Lincolnshire WateT Co.; the pumping sta- shield:s of arms, and the whole is indosed by a. marginal tion is in Hundleby and the reservoir, which has a in'llcription, which gives the date of her death as October capacity of 75,ooo gallons, is on Baithby Hill, the water 18th, 1391: 5· A remarkable fine triple canopied brass desr!'nding by gravitation to Spilsby; t.he supply is of with effigies of William, 5th baron Willoughby de Eresby, excellent quality and practically inexhaustible. ob. 1410, and Lucy, daughter of Lord Strange,of Knockyn, The church of St. Jamos is an edifice of green sandstone his first wife; the figure of the baron is in rir.h armour. and brick, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and that of his wife in a. high gown, falling in volu~ consisting of chancel, d()uble nave with clerestory, north minous folds about her feet: 6. A heavy monumental aisle, north or Willoughby .chapel and an embattled Per- stone screen, between the nmth aisle of the nave and pendicular western tower with pinnacles and containing a the Willoughby chapel eastwa.rd of it, forming a memo­ clock and 6 beUs : the earliest portions of the structure are rial to Richard Bertie esq. ob. 1582, and his wife~. the nave arcades, dahlng apparently from the early part of Catherine, Baroness Willoughby de Kresby, and widow the 14th century, to which period the arcade opening into of Charles Brandon, ISt Duke of Suffolk, ob. 1580: 7· &. the chapel seems also to belong: about the middle of the monument of Derbyshire alabaster and various marbles.. same century the south aisle was removed, and a large bearing on a panelled base a reclining effigy of Catherine. secondary nave erected, of which the eastern portlion con- only daughter of Peregrine Bertie, wth Baron Wil­ stitutes the present chancel, the remainder forming about loughby de Eresby, and wife of Sir Lewis Watson knt. half of the existing nave: in the 14th century there was a of Rockingham, where she died in child bed Feb. 14th, chapel here dedicated to the Holy Trinity, of which the r6ro; placed within a little cradle at her feet lies her arcade of the Willoughby chapel is supposed to be a infant; above this is an erect effigy of her father, the fra.gment: the -church contains a. very interesting series famous Peregrine, rot.h Lord Willoughby, ob. r6o1, in a of monuments commemorating several of the most dis- suit of ha.lf armour, full skirt and hose: in the pavement of tinguished m em hers of the house of Wi:loughby including: the church are several grey slabs,deprived of therr bra slims: I. An altar-tomb of stone, adorned with shafts originally the ~tained east window- was given by the representativu supporting a canopy; on the upper sl1Jb lie the effigies of the late Prebendary Hallway, thirty years vicar of of John, 2nd Baron Willonghby de Eresby, and Joan Spilsby; j;he west window by Mrs. and Miss Russell, iJJ (Doseline), his wife; the figure of the former is in a1mour memcry of the Rev_ Isaac Russell, master l'lf Spibby with shield and sword, and has the legs crossed; the lady Grammar School, and the Rev. J. Bul!seU, rect<>r of wears a ooverohief and a flowing mantle over a clo!>e fitting Holland Fen, and there are other stained windows: the dress; J.ord Willoughby was knighted in 1326-7, and took Willoughby monuments were carefully restored hr part in the Scottish and Flemish wars, including the relief William Forsyth, of London, in 1879, by the order of t.llfl of Aiguillon, 1345-6 and the battle of Crecy, August 26th, ldte Baroness Willoughby, at a cost of £250: a hand- 1346; he died in 1349: 2. A fine altar-tomb of stone and same brass lectern was presented in 1892 by Mr~. supportjng .. finely carved alabaster effigy in full a1mour of Kirkby: the communion plate, of silver gilt, was given