Based at Sandtoft airfield this gunner remembers cycling into Crowle and Belton. In Crowle he was befriended by Pidds the Butchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/91/a4104091.shtml
The market square has barely changed in over one and a half centuries. The above sketch, from the mid 1850’s, is taken from Read’s History of the Isle of Axholme published in 1858. Note the gas lamp, the only streetlight in Crowle. Crowle was modern; it had a gas works, which paid good dividends to its investors. The gas works lasted to about 1940 when […]
In 1986 Crowle Parochial Council published a booket by David eave of the University of Hull about Armstrong's Crowle Journal. Benjamin Armstrong was vicar in Crowle from 1842 to 1844. His account of Crowle gives an interesting insight to Crowle in the early 19th century.
The following buildings in Crowle are listed as being of historic or architectural merit; St Oswald’s Parish Church Churchyard Cross Double Rivers Bridge Double Rivers Bridge over Hatfield Waste Drain Syphon carrying Hatfield Waste Drain below North Level Engine Drain No 1 Church Street 1-3 Cross Street 5 Cross Street 7-9 Cross Street 84 High Street White Hart Inn 1-11 High Street – including 2 […]
From “Priestley’s Navigable Rivers and Canals” by Joseph Priestley, published in 1831. STAINFORTH AND KEADBY CANAL. 33 George III. Cap. 117, Royal Assent 7th June, 1793. 38 George III. Cap. 47, Royal Assent 1st June, 1798. 49 George III. Cap. 71, Royal Assent 20th May, 1809. THIS canal, which is fifteen miles in length, commences at the River Dun Navigation, near Stainforth, in the West […]
In the “History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme”, by the Rev. W. B. Stonehouse, M.A., written in 1839, p. 422, the author remarks :- “A small Decoy yet lingers on part of the common (parish of Crowle), where wildfowl are occasionally taken, just sufficient to remind the modern sportsman what a diversion the ancient fowler found in these extensive and wild […]
CROWLE, a small market-town near the channel of the old river Don, 6 miles N.of Epworth, and 17 miles N. by W. of Gainsbro', increased its habitants from 1889, in 1831, to 2235 souls, in 1841, and has in its township about 6000 acres of land, including the hamlet of Ealand, 1 mile S.E.; Crowle Wharf, on the Stainforth and Keadby canal 1. 1/4 mile […]
CROWLE, a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in the district of Thorne, and county of Lincoln. The town stands on the old river Don, adjacent to the Stainforth and Keadby canal, the Doncaster and Keadby railway, and the boundary with Yorkshire, 6¾ miles E by S of Thorne; has a station on the railway and a post office‡ under Bawtry; is […]
Crowle 1856 Directory Crowle is a small but thriving market town,near the channel of the old river Don,6 miles N of Epworth increased its inhabitants from 1889 , in 1831 to 2548 souls in 1851 and has in its township about 6000 acres of land.including the hamlet of Ealand 1 mile SE, Crowle Wharf on the Stainforth & Keadby Canal 1 mile S of the […]
From Stationary Steam Engines in Great Britain by Colin Bowden, George Coper & Ted McAvoy. Published by Colin Bowden, 1979 Crowle Belton Brick Company, Crowle Brickworks (SE774111) Horizontal single cylinder engine, Maker unknown ? – said to be Bradley & Craven Ltd, Wakefield. Possibly early 1900s (1975). Inverted vertical compound (enclosed). Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham. Late 1900s. Disused (1975) Ditto. Browett, Lindley & Co […]