Drainage
January 1, 1970

The Place and River Names of West Lindsey

Crowle (British) 836 Croglea (Crowle, Worcesters.) : Birch (1) 583 871 Crogdene (now Croydon) : Birch (2) 146 1086 Crul Crule 31 fisheries : D. B., 82, 192-3 1130 Croilanda Abbas de Pipe, 84 1158-9 Croil . Pipe (1884) 65 1190 Crueil, Homines de. Crocil . Pipe (1) 86. 101 1202 Cruilland marisc Croilland . Oblata. 175, 183 1208 Cruil Rad de ‘ Plac., 67 […]

Organisations
January 1, 1970

Crowle & Ealand Short Mat Bowls Club

You are invited to the bowls club on any Monday morning at 9.45am or two hours of friendly practice. The meetings are held in the Sports Pavilion, Godnow Road. Transport to and from can be provided. The only equipment needed is a pair of lat shoes Come and have a go!

Family History House History
January 1, 1970

The Robinson Family and Tetley Hall

The Robinsons The earliest record of the Robinsons is in the Census of 1841 when John Robinson, a coal merchant born in Epworth in about 1776, was living with his wife Elizabeth (born in about 1780) at Crowle Wharf. The household also included John’s son George born in Hatfield in about 1810 and his wife, Hannah Whittaker born in Selby two years later. George and […]

Flax & Hemp Processing
January 1, 1970

Processing Flax

There are two general types of flax, one is grown for seeds, the other for its fiber. Linseed has been used for lamp oil, mixed into cough medications, laxatives and other medicinal teas. Linoleum was made from linseed oil and ground cork. The oilseed plant grows to a height of 24 – 30 inches and the root is larger. The fiber flax plant produces a […]

History
January 1, 1970

Axholme in 1835

Originally published in ‘The Penny Magazine’ by The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Axholme in 1835 AXHOLME, or AXHOLM, ISLE OF, a river-island in the county of Lincoln. It is bounded on the eastern side by the Trent, and on the northern and north-western sides by the old river Don, which flowed by Crowle, Luddington, and Garthorpe, into the Trent, and formed in […]

History
January 1, 1970

Crowle in the 1940

The Crowle of my Boyhood 2. The Senior School was the larger building to the rear, 8 to 14 years of age. Those who came from a distance ate their packed lunches from trestle tables in the central corridor, which I did on occasion when my mother was staying with her family at Eastoft. The school playground behind and then the school field and vegetable […]

Bill Goldthorp
January 1, 1970

Fishing in the clay pits – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

The Tetley gang. All born in 1933, myself, 46 Wharf Road, Laurence Lowthorpe, Mike Maw, both lived at Tetley, Chippy (Brian) Chapman, 60 Wharf Road, Roy Strachan, the doctor’s son and a few others from the age of 7 or 8 spent the majority of our time messing about, making sure we were not caught around Tetley and the clay pits, and occasionally, now what […]

Manor of Crowle
January 1, 1970

Crowle Manor Documents at Lincolnshire Archives

The original of this article may be found here http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/551/REPORT4.pdf MANOR OF CROWLE Descent of the manor A very brief account of the records of this manor deposited by Messrs. Tallents and Co. of Newark was given in the Archivists’ Report, 1952, pp. 56-7. The chests of documents referred to therein have now been examined and it is proposed to give some fuller account of […]