Internetowl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 was that at Fiskerton? SE of Lincoln on the Trent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 was that at Fiskerton? SE of Lincoln on the Trent? I'm not sure about Fiskerton but Five Mile House wasn't on the Trent. The train used to call at Gainsborough Lea Road for the Trent, then Saxilby and then Lincoln. I'm sure that Five Mile House was the next stop, before Bardney, so it was on the River Witham. After a while, the train stopped calling at Five Mile House and I seem to remember that it was because the wooden platform was rotten and dangerous. Eventually the whole train service was scrapped in the mid sixties by the infamous Doctor Beeching. We used to go to Bardney, Southrey or Stixwould. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 To Twinky 1 Dean Marshall and the Deputies started life at the Tanner Hop as you call it. They went on to become Jigsaw. Before they were The Deputies they were called the Falcons..used to reherse at the Catholick Church at Lane Top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internetowl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 http://www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk/maps/BR1961c.jpg railmap from 1961... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internetowl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Five Mile House is mentioned in the Beeching report as a closed station. page 113 of the report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internetowl Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 Unregistered I've pm'd you the co-ordinates for Five Mile House Station - adjacent the Witham , SE of Fiskerton - hope that helps For anyone else 504909,372120 into http://www.oldmaps.co.uk - its in the South East corner of the map in enlarged view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Unregistered I've pm'd you the co-ordinates for Five Mile House Station - adjacent the Witham , SE of Fiskerton - hope that helps For anyone else 504909,372120 into http://www.oldmaps.co.uk - its in the South East corner of the map in enlarged view. Thanks for that but oldmaps is old-maps now. Looks like Five Mile House was a one horse town, five miles from anywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internetowl Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 aye but it was fun finding it - love old maps - such interesting things - its a pity they are lost to the general public normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecuriousdo Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 hi does anyone remember the cowley family that lived (lives) in or around the parson cross area, hunting old aquaintences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unregistered Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Parts of Parson Cross were definately still being farmed in the late 1950's but I'm not sure if the activity actually survived into the sixties. What we called the cornfields were on both sides of Adlington Road. One side now has a community centre on it and the other side had part of the Lytton Estate built on it. Parson Cross Map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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