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SNIPPETS

A depository for small articles, notes, titbits and other miscellanea of local interest.

Harriet Swanson and William Blades.

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Keth Hansell

7 November 2024

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October 31st 1940 - The Luftwaffe Comes to Stamford.
An eyewitness account

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Nicholas J Sheehan.

25 September 2024

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My School-Days in Stamford by Edith Nesbit

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Chris Hunt

26 July 2024

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Stamford Town Bridge 1792

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Chris Hunt

27 June 2024

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The Archive of St Michael's Church

Honorary Life member of the society provides a glimpse of the numerous documents often collected by local churches.

John S Hartley

14 November 2023

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A List of Stamford Aldermen from 1398 to 1457

Despite many early records from this period having been destroyed or lost a Steward of Stamford Town preserved a list of sixty aldermen.

Chris Hunt

1 January 2022

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Radcliffe and Browne's School, Stamford-Prize Volume

A school prize binding

Chris Hunt

1 January 2021

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Blackstone & Co Works Rules 1916

An interesting insight into industrial work rules during WWI

Chris Hunt

1 January 2018

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Religious Foundations of Medieval Stamford

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John S Hartley and Alan Rogers

1 February 2017

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Drowning on Broad Street

Landlady found face down in cistern

Chris Hunt

1 January 2017

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Rate Book 1836

In 2017 Alan Rogers published his transcript of the 1836 rate assessment of Stamford. This important document lists all of the property in the town and names the owners and the tenants.

Professor Alan Rogers

1 January 2017

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Stamford and Magna Carta

Text of talk given to Stamford Local History Society

Dr Henry Summerson

1 April 2015

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