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  • Hello world!

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  • Pump Hill Cottage

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    THE PROPERTY Pump Hill Cottage is plot number 37 on the village “1957 sale” map, shown under the History tab in the village website. It is a semi-detached cottage, which according to a 1948 rural survey (attached) had been first leased in 1880 under the Lord Heneage estate. It is therefore assumed that the cottage…

  • Just Who Were The First People To Settle In South Willingham?

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    This article is in memory of our cousin David who passed away in 2010 aged 63. The photograph was taken in 1952 when he was 5 and I was 11, whilst my brother was 13. The photo was taken in the rear garden of his parent’s house (Freda and Henry Jobson) that is now known…

  • The South Willingham Minute Book

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    This book, which is a record of village events, is now 90 years old, and was started on Mon August 28th 1922. The following is just a few of the entries which perhaps gives a flavour of village life On August 28th 1922 a public meeting was held , the purpose of which was to make arrangements…

  • Celebrations

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    Coronation 1911 taken from Rasen Mail     _________________________________________________________    People in the photograph below. – Albert and Audrey Hildred.  Nellie Pickwell. Betty Sylvester. Mrs Proctor. Mrs Dick Wright. Alice Bray. Hilda Addison. Albert Webster. Flo Vickers. John Vickers. Dick Bee. Jill Lacey. John Bolland. Fred Lancaster. Margaret Bolland. May Lancaster.  Harry Winning. Hilda Blackburn, Arthur East. Bill…

  • Photographs of People and Places.

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             The Holmes / Gannon family at Pasture House. The Village Shop date unknown.                    _______________________ Frank and Gladys Johnson inside the village shop. date unknown. _______________________________ Edwin Greenwood ” with the cow which gave  eighteen lbs of butter each week ” ( this information was written on the back of the photograph obtained from Grimsby…

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  • Chapels.

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     South Willingham Chapels The village once had two chapels, both situate in Barkwith Road – one now gone completely and the other having been converted to a private residence.        1) South Willingham Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Built in 1834 – closed 1972. Now a private residence. This chapel was in the following circuits at the dates…

  • Old Photographs of South Willingham.

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     Buildings.      The Thatch.  According to Mrs Anne Flowers nee Copeland who used to live in The Thatch, it was once  three separate homes.Mrs Flowers kindly supplied some of the photographs of  The Thatch and of Woodbine Cottage.                                                                                                                                                                                                               Believed to be The Thatch c 1940…

  • Louth to Bardney Railway

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    At a public meeting at the Kings Head in Louth on November 3rd 1865 it was unanimously agreed to investigate the possibility of building a railway from Louth via Wragby to Lincoln. Mr. Heneage, the largest landowner in the area, agreed to act as Chairman of the provisional Committee. By the 16th of November a…