A dubious ghost story

In South Rauceby Church is the tomb of a knight from the 14th century. According to a resident of the village this tomb was haunted and at midnight a skeletal phantom which lay within the tomb would lift the top from it with "it's bony hand". One can only assume it was a tidy sort of spectre which then replaced the tomb lid after it had completed its midnight ramblings...

A horrid deed at Surfleet...

At the foot of one of the trees in Surfleet churchyard is a grey slate stone. Closer inspection shows that it is not a gravestone but a memorial stone. It bears the following inscription:

THIS stone is erected to the memory of Mr Samuel Stockton late of Ashley in the parish of Leigh and county of Lancaster who was most barbarously murdered near this place on the 8th Day of September   1768  for which murder one Philip Hooton was tryed and condemned at Lincoln Assizes and afterwards  executed and hung in chains on the very place where the horrid deed was committed. 

Scorbutic complaints at Silk Willoughby...

The following advertisement appeared in the London papers during 1792:

From the Lincoln Mercury, May 4^th 1792

Silk Willoughby near Folkingham, Lincolnshire

The following case is another memorable proof of the quick efficacy of Mr Spilsbury’s ANTI-SCORBUTIC DROPS, of Soho Square, London, substantiated in the person of Mr Thomas Holt, (servant to Mr Joseph Clifton, maltster) he being at Christmas last desperately afflicted with a scorbutic humour, owing to a violent surfeit which he got a few years back, and occasioned several large sores on his legs, arms, shoulders and different parts of his body, which had been very troublesome at times, and this winter quite disabled him from doing his work. He was advised to try MR SPILSBUTY’S DROPS, and applied to Messrs Ward and sons of Folkingham for a 5 shilling bottle; and on taking five of these bottles, his sores are quite healed up and his health so much better that he can do his work; yet means to continue a medicine, of which he has experienced so much benefit, sometime longer.

Sea Unicorn

A sea unicorn was caught some days since at Frieston, on the Lincolnshire coast, This species of fish is common in the Nile, but at present we believe to be the first instance of it being found in these seas.

The Morning Post and Gazeteer (London), Thursday March 6th 1800

Spaldin Tulip Parade 1960s

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1200

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