1-72 DEEPING ST. JAME~. LINCOLNSHIRE. (KELLY'S Carriers. :Public El~men,tary Schools. Philip Pell, of Market Deeping, passes through to & from Mixed, formerly the workhouse, erected in x8x6, & re· Baurne, thurs.; Spalding, · tues.; Stamford, fri. &i erected in 1890, for 241 children; average attendancP, Peterborough, wed. & sat . 205; Herbert Jennings, master · Ernest Ooaten, to Peterborough, sat. &i wed. ; Spalding, Church street (infants), formerly the Free school, for tues. & Stamford, fri II3 children ; average attendance, 94; Miss Mart ha William Hy. Teat, to Stamford, fri. & !Peterborough, sat Bland, mistress Railway Station, Alfred Thomas Russell, station maste!" l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Coaten Jane (Mrs.), Walnut Tree Oldham J'as. & Son, millers & bakers Exeter The Dowager Marchioness of, P.H. Horsegate Oldham John W. wheelwright Deeping St. J ames manor; & 114 Crowson Alfred A. builder Palm er Su.sannah Maria(Mrs. ),shopkpr Ashley gardens, London SW Eve Herbert, farmer Parish Council Room (Herber£ Tay- Bryon John Thomas Feneley Albert, baker & grocer lor, caretaker) Buck James Parker, Bankside Feneley Charles, egg merchant, Patman Thos. George & Dragon P.H Hibbett Mrs Templar villa . Penney Betsy (Mrs.), beer retailer Jennings Herbert, Barn-Lea Fire Brigade (Wm. Bennett, captain) Perkins Ernest, farmer Johnson Robert H. Eastgate villa FDster Edward, poor rate collector, Pettitt Charles William, beer retailer King The Misses The Lilacs Pinion Percy, farmer Lincoln Charles Joseph Foster George, cowkeeper Plowright Albt. Edwd. mon. rnasFrognall Prentice William, hair dresser Robinson John Frisby Brothers, farmers Quartermaine Henry, fruiterer Sherrard Frank, Welland lodge Gout Charles, farmer, Cranmore Rippoll James, cowkeeper Skene Rev. Samuel Warren M.A. Haines James R. wheelwright Scotney John William, farmer Vicarage Haines William Henry, jobmaster Sewell Edward, farmer Smith Rev. William, Welland house Halford Lily & Olive (Misses), dress Smith Francis, coal merchant Steve.nson Thomas, Sunnyside makers Smith John Hy. (exors. of), fa.,.,rmmers Tomhn Mrs Howitt Matthew, butcher & farmer Smith Mary Jane (Miss), shopkeeper Wilson Frank Howitt .William, cowkeeper Smith Matthew, ·market gardener, COlUlERCIAL. Je:ffries Frank, gardener to The Horsegate . Earl closing day, Thursday I p.m. Dowager Marchioness of Exeter Smith Samuel C. builder & farmer Algar William, insurance agPnt Jennings Herbert,clerk to the Par:sh Smith William Henrv, butcher Alien Francis, farmer, Frognal Council Spendilow John, shoe maker Allen . Thomas, farmer, Horsegate Lambert Thomas, shoeing smith Spratt Samuel, beer retailer Andrews Claude, butcher Lancaster Jane (Mrs.), farmer Swift Alfred, cattle salesman· Andrews Thomas, farmer Law Harry, farmer, Fairfield , Teat William Henry. carrier Baker Jn. T. greengrocer & seed agt Lenton Samuel, cowkeeper Tiggerdine Charles,Goat P .. H.Frognal Barron Alfred, farmer Liewsley 'l'homas, grocer & bakt>r Tomlin Waiter, miller (wind) & bakr Bateman Alien Charles, cycle agent Mackman William, farmer Wakerley Brothers, butchers Bennett Wm. blacksmith & parish Market Deeping Gas Light & CokeCo. Ward Albert Webster,farmer & grazier, clerk Ltd. Works (Richard Wade, sec) The Priory . Berridge James, farmeT Markham Joseph W. beer retailer Ward John E. farmer, Cranmore lo Bingham Richard, basket maker :Mayes Brothers, jobmasters _ Ward ThomasSwales,grocer & draper Blake Frank, Three Tuns P.H Measures Stephen, farmer Warrington Albert~ G. N. R. carrier Bland William, grocer & baker Milbourn William, butcher Warrington Virtue (Mrs.), Railway Boyden John, builder Mitchell Charles, horse breaker · hotel Buck Henry, poulterer :Morton Caroline (Mrs.), baker, Post Watson Fred, beer retailer, Frognall Charity John R grocer office Webster Uriah, gamekpr. to Messrs. Chesterfield Elizabeth (:\Ess), grocer Morton Chas. Wm.Queen's Head P.H Benson & Cook, The Parks Chesterfield George, draper· Mulligan Elizabeth (Mrs.), Waterton Wells Daniel, saddler Chesterfield John, upholsterer Arms P.H Worsdall Matthew, farmer Church Men's Club (Edward FostPr, Neaverson Charles, coal merchant· Wright Mary(Mrs.),Rose&Crown P.H hon. sec) Nickerson ChulPs, Bell hotel York Sarnl.chimney swpr. & beer· ret Coaten Ernest, carrier & shopkeeper Nurse Thomas,_ butcher & farmer DEEPING ST. NICHOLAS (or Det-ping Fen) is an trustees, and held since IE8g by the Rev. William extensive village and parish, originally formed in 1846, Matthew Benson. of Queen's College, Birmingham. and ref•Jrmed under the Act 19 and 20 Vict. c. 65 (1856), During the year 1899 a new church Sunday school was and divided into north, middle and east townships. The built at a cost of £130. Mission services are held. parish is divided into two divisions for County Council during· the summer months at Tongue. End in th~ pJirposes, part being in Kesteven and part in Holland: Public Elementary school. Here is a Primitive Metho­ the village is in the Fen, on the high road from Market dist chapel, erected in x867, the site for which was given Deeping to Spalding, with a station called Littleworth, by th.e late Mr., James Haynes, of West Deeping Fen; on the.. East Lincolnshire branch of the Great Northern there is also a General chapel at Tongue End. The railway, 5 miles south-west from Spalding, about 7 north­ principal landowners are the Marquess of Lincolnshire east from Market Deeping, 14 north-east from Peter­ K.G., P.O., G.C.M.G. the Dean and Cha.pter of Lincoln, borough, IS north-east from Stamford, and 87 from Lon­ the Marquess of ·clap.ricarde, Jonathan Ward esq. of don by rail ; the CDunter Drain station on the Bourne Thurlby Manor, Bourne, Herbert Parkinson Carter· esq. and Spalding branch of the Midland and Great Northern of Holbeach, Mr. Thomas Worth, of Sutton Bridge, jqinh line is 3t miles north-west from the village, William Dennis & Sons Limited, of Kirton, Boston, and near Tongue End, in this parish, which is in the Jchn Henry Bunting esq. of Spalding, Thomas Arthur Holland division of the coun~y, parts of Holland,.. Nes$ Pick esq. and Edward :Montague Earle Welby esq. of and Elloe wa.pentake, Elloe petty sessional ,division, Norton House, Norton, Sheffield. The soil is loamy; Spalding union, Bourne county court district, rural subsoil, clay and silt. The chief cr~ps are potatoes, deanery of West Elloe, and archdeaconry and diocese of tape seed, wheat, barley, <>ats, peas anli beans. The Lincoln~ l'he church of St, Nicholas, -erected in 1845• population in 19II was I,4J9; the area is q.~~ acres from designs by the late Mr. Kirk, of Sleaford, and of ]and .and 71 of water, parts being nearly the whole endowed from funds bequeathed by 'William and Nicholas bf Deeping Fen, which is drained by two powerful Clarke Stevenson, is a building of stone in a modern engines of 8o and 6o horse power, and is now in a high tJtyle at Florid Gothic, and ooBsist5 of ·chancel, nave, $tate of cultivation ; rateable value, parts of Holland,. nerth. aiel& .and a northern tQ"wer, with an octagonal £13,920; parts of Kesteven, £6,8-83; total, [oo,8o4. llpil'e relieved by bold dormers .and erocketed pinnacles sad containiRg~ 6, bells, hung in l9o8, and a clock Post, M. 0. & T. Office, IYeeping St. Nicholas.-:Mrs. previded in. 1909: the spire ha& been re-.pointed and Mary Riggall, sub-postmistress. Letters received ,. ..new lightning conductor fix~ At 1' ®st. ef {,lOo: through Spalding at 7·45 a.m. & I p.m.; dispatched the base of the ·towe.r forms a north porch : i~ 1908 at t & 5·55 p.Jll.; no suaday mail. Letters for Tongue a new r.eredos was provided: extensive alterations End & adjacenT farms are rooeived from Pode Hole via were- made in x8gi, at- a co8t tJf .£140, when 1l ne"W Spalding, ~ IM Stow Gate & Mr. Whitfield's through o:rgatt. was erected at '8 cust ot [,~o, 1mbscribed by Market Deepiti(f There is a telegraph office at Little· tbe pansbionen ~ thert'! 'Bl'e ~ sitttrtg~to The- registe'r wolth railw~:f atation (G. N ..B.) for dispatch~r ~ut Jl() datea fro:t;n tha year x84f5. The living is a "'icara~. delivery; closed on sun days net yearly .,.alae £t8E!, with· t"Mide'ltee, in the gift of