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Killingholme

  • Lincoln Cathedral holds charters from the 13th century (1245) which refer to a Walter de Kylingholm buying up land rights throughout the village.
  • North Killingholme was a train station on the New Holland and Immingham Dock branch of the Great Central Railway.
  • South Killingholme was the site of three lighthouses. Two of these were erected in 1836 and the third in January, 1852.
  • Both townships were largely crop-growing farms in the 18th and 19th centuries. Wheat, barley, turnips, oats and beans were the primary crops. Bricks and tiles were also manufactured from the native clay near the banks of the Humber. The Killingholme Haven (Clay) pits at TA 1619 are now a Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
  • Both townships saw large population growths in the 20th century with the industrialisation of the Grimsby port area, the building of oil refineries and the installation of the Oil Terminal built on the Humber banks.
  • The PS Killingholme was a double-ended paddle steamer built in 1912 by the Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. for the Great Central Railway Co. and London North Eastern Railway Co. Immediately after delivery she was used for the official opening of the King George V Dock at Immingham by the King and Queen Mary. She was primarily a Humber ferry. She did excursion work, too. In 1935 she carried 44,000 passengers on excursions from Hull to Grimsby.
  • South Killingholme holds a family gala each July with children's rides, side shows and barbecues. The South Killinghole Horticultural Society also holds an annual horticultural show with displays of plants, knitting and embroidery, as well as culinary classes.
  • Steve FAREHAM has a photograph of The Ashbourne hotel on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

Lincolnshire

  • You may want to find the book "The History of the County of Lincoln" by ALLEN, publ. 1834. Found online at Archive.Org.
     
  • Here's a handy website of British history which you can search by location.
     
  • The Black Death or Plague swept through Lincolnshire (and all of western Europe) in 1680 through 1690.
     
  • All of England suffered from a "monster" storm in November of 1703 that killed a reported 8,000 people. Seaside villages suffered greatly and their church and civil records may have been lost.
     
  • In a similar storm in early 1953 flooding occurred from Mablethorpe to Skegness, reaching as far as 2 miles inland.
     
  • Liz DAVIES offers a list of names from the Agricultural Workers Revolt of 1872 and a list of Farmers against the Unions of 1874. Her Great Grandfather had an employer who found him reading a newspaper one day. He was asked "Can you read then, Pennell?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Then you can pack your bags and be off. We don't want your sort here."
     
  • For reasons that are buried in ancient history, folks who were born in Lincolnshire are called Yellow Bellies. No one knows for sure, but come find a list of possibilities.
     
  • What was life like back in the "good old days"? You might try to find a copy of "Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes," written in 1698. Part 3 covers her trip through East Anglia. Another source is H. E. Bates, who began to write a regular column for "Country Life" (published by Penguin) just before WW2. Beware the authors who paint rosy pictures of the landed gentry and their great estates.
     
  • The book "Life As We Have Known It," Margaret Llewelyn DAVIES, reprinted by Virago in 1977 is a selection of notes written by women around WW1, describing their lives. The chapter by Mrs. Burrows - "A childhood in the Fens 1850-1860", would shatter all of one's illusions about how life in the country really was. She left school at 8 years of age, unable to read or write. She worked 14 hours in the fields with other children younger than her. The ganger had a whip, which "he did not forget to use". They were required to walk at least 2 miles and sometimes around five miles to reach a particular field, and then home again in the evening. (Thank you, Adrian HEDGECOY)
     
  • The Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516 might have your village listed in its Lincolnshire section.
     
  • The "big invention" of the 1800s was the steam engine and the impact it had on agriculture that century. It not only brought the railways, but also steam engines now replaced "ag labs" in the fields and replaced windmills for draining the Fens and pumping water. Oddly, many men found work in the coal mines to supply fuel for these "beasts", while others worked in the iron pits around Scunthorpe because of the demand for iron and steel.
     
  • "The Lincolnshire Poacher" is a traditional English folk song associated with the county of Lincolnshire, and dealing with the joys of poaching. It is considered to be the unofficial county anthem of Lincolnshire and it is the quick march of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Find out more at Wikipedia
     

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