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Spalding Gentlemen's Society promotes the appreciation of local history and culture through exhibitions, events, and educational programmes. Our mission is to preserve and share the rich heritage of Spalding and its surrounding areas.

Delve deep into the past. Join an exciting activity club for children ages 5+. Try hands-on activities, uncover intriguing facts, learn new skills, solve puzzles, try challenges, make new friends, and achieve badges. September&#39;s event will be held at Pinchbeck Church, from 1.30pm. There is parking at the side of the church. Please wear sensible shoes. If the weather is good, you&#39;re welcome to come earlier with a packed lunch for a picnic on site. &pound;3 per child. Please email for more information: activities@sgsoc.org

History Hunters - A Grave Experience

Delve deep into the past. Join an exciting activity club for children ages 5+. Try hands-on activities, uncover intriguing facts, learn new skills, solve puzzles, try challenges, make new friends, and achieve badges. 1.30pm at Spalding Baptist Church, Swan Street PE11 1BT (except 5 July, which will be at Ayscoughfee Hall Gardens). &pound;3 per child. Please email for more information: activities@sgsoc.org

History Hunters 2026

Bring history to life! Explore the world of the Ancient Greeks with our May Half Term workshop.&nbsp;Discover more about Gods and Goddesses, try painting pottery, learn about temples and have a go at making your own column. Hear tales of myth and legend, investigate ancient theatre and masks, and learn how to write your own name using the Greek alphabet.&nbsp; Refreshments are provided, but please bring a packed lunch.&nbsp;

The Glorious Greeks

Members are invited to a special preview of the SGS Spring Exhibitions: Science and Navigation.&nbsp; Date:&nbsp;Thursday 26th March, from 6pm-7.30pmWhere: Ayscoughfee Hall Museum Be the first to explore new displays drawn from our collections, highlighting objects, documents, and stories that reflect our heritage. The evening will include a canap&eacute; reception, curator talks, and a chance to see the new galleries before they open to the public. Please use this form to confirm your attendance.&nbsp;

Members' Preview - SGS Spring Exhibitions

Your donation enables us to share our events with families across Spalding and its surrounding areas - bringing history to life for visitors of all ages. Every amount is appreciated. Your support strengthens Spalding Gentlemen&#39;s Society&rsquo;s work in the creation and sharing of knowledge by providing access to our collections and by offering innovative social and educational projects.

Your donation enables us to share our events with families across Spalding and its surrounding areas - bringing history to life for visitors of all ages.Every amount is appreciated. Your support strengthens Spalding Gentlemen's Society’s work in the creation and sharing of knowledge by providing access to our collections and by offering innovative social and educational projects.

Voluntary donation for the Glorious Greeks event

Lectures

Welcome to the Spalding Gentlemen&#39;s Society Shop. Every purchase helps care for our historic collections and supports public lectures, workshops, and school visits that open them up to all. From publications that share new research to gifts inspired by our museum, library, and archive, your order sustains our work to tell the Society&rsquo;s story and encourage curiosity in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Welcome to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society Shop. Every purchase helps care for our historic collections and supports public lectures, workshops, and school visits that open them up to all.From publications that share new research to gifts inspired by our museum, library, and archive, your order sustains our work to tell the Society’s story and encourage curiosity in the arts, sciences and humanities.

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Enjoy seasonal songs from the Greenwood Quire - a group making glorious music across the South Lincolnshire region.&nbsp;<div fr-original-style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: black !important; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>Their repertoire is drawn from music traditionally performed by local singers and amateur musicians in churches and chapels throughout the country before the introduction of organs and harmoniums. During the 18th and 19th centuries, many of these tunes were preserved in books and manuscripts compiled by a wide range of composers and collectors.<div fr-original-style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: black !important; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>&lsquo;Winter&rsquo;s Tales&rsquo; shares the story of 18th-century communities - including the characters, their work, and the music of Sunday worship. Using archive records and contemporary accounts, life in Georgian England shines out through the instruments, voices and music of the people.<div fr-original-style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black !important; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: black !important; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>Venue: Broad Street Methodist Church﻿, Broad Street, Spalding PE11 1TB

‘Winter’s Tales’ by the Greenwood Quire

Delve deep into the past. Join an exciting activity club for children ages 5+. Try hands-on activities, uncover intriguing facts, learn new skills, solve puzzles, try challenges, make new friends, and achieve badges. October&#39;s event will be held at Spalding Baptist Church, from 1.30pm. The focus will be on Fenland Folklore and Legends. &pound;3 per child. Please email for more information: activities@sgsoc.org

History Hunters - Fenland Folklore and Legends

Bring history to life! Explore the Smashing Stuarts with our October Half Term workshop.&nbsp;- Discover more about the plague and make a plague mask- Find out about the significance of hanging signs and the Great Fire of London&nbsp;- Choose between Roundhead or Royalist&nbsp;- Explore what we had before and after the Stuarts&nbsp;- Have a go at making Marchpane Refreshments are provided, but please bring a packed lunch. This is a drop-in event, but pre-booking is recommended. FREE to attend (donations welcomed).&nbsp;

The Smashing Stuarts

Delve deep into the past. Join an exciting activity club for children ages 5+. Try hands-on activities, uncover intriguing facts, learn new skills, solve puzzles, try challenges, make new friends, and achieve badges. November&#39;s event will be held at Spalding Baptist Church, from 1.30pm. The focus will be on Fenland Folklore and Legends. &pound;3 per child. Please email for more information: activities@sgsoc.org

P R O G R A M M E <ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">10.30am: Registration</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">10.45am: Introduction by Michael Gilbert - a welcome and outline of the purpose and structure of the symposium</li></ul> Morning Session: Aspects of Urban History <ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">11am: The Study of Urban History by Dr James Moore (Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">11:35am: Sanitation in Lincolnshire by Dr Richard Jones (Centre for Local and Regional History, University of Leicester)</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">12.10pm: Medical Care in Spalding in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Sue Hughes (Victoria County History Lincolnshire &ndash; Spalding group)</li></ul>Lunchtime<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">12.45pm: Lunch provided (and Tour of Ayscoughfee Hall Museum)</li></ul>Afternoon Session: The Study of Local History <ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">1.30pm: Society and Town: The Gentlemen&rsquo;s Society in Spalding by Dr Dustin Frazier-Wood (Head of Collections and Operations, Spalding Gentlemen&#39;s Society)</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">2.05pm: Spalding: The VCH Project and a New Era of Local History by Dr Gabby Storey (Victoria County History Lincolnshire &ndash; Spalding group)</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">2.40pm: Open Discussion</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">3pm: End</li></ul>Held at Ayscoughfee Hall Museum, Churchgate, Spalding (PE11 2RA)Organised by Spalding Gentlemen&rsquo;s Society.Supported by the University of Leicester and the Fenland Heritage Network.

Spalding: A Study in Local History

Delve deep into the past. Join an exciting activity club for children ages 5+. Try hands-on activities, uncover intriguing facts, learn new skills, solve puzzles, try challenges, make new friends, and achieve badges. December&#39;s event will be held at Spalding Baptist Church, from 1.30pm. The focus will be on A Cromwellian Christmas. &pound;3 per child. Please email for more information: <a fr-original-style="" href="mailto:activities@sgsoc.org" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;">activities@sgsoc.org</a>

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History Hunters - Fenland Folklore and Legends

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The Smashing Stuarts

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History Hunters - Fenland Folklore and Legends

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Spalding: A Study in Local History

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History Hunters - A Cromwellian Christmas

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