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Saxilby and District's Doctors

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The first recorded village doctor we can find is Edward Allen Wilson, who was born in 1800. Listed on the 1841 census as a Surgeon, he is living in the village with his wife, Rebecca, and their three children, Lavinia, William, and Adelaide. I have found a newspaper report from September 1840. Mr Wilson, Surgeon, of Saxilby, on Thursday week narrowly escaped a shocking death. He was visiting a patient at the new engine close by Hodda [now Odda] Bridge, and was going round to the engine-house door, when his pony backed into a well which had been incautiously left uncovered. With difficulty he was rescued from his perilous situation: the pony was much hurt. Odda Engine House Edward died at the age of 45, and is buried in Saxilby Churchyard, together with his wife and their son Samuel, who died at the age of 1 in 1834. He was succeeded as the village doctor by George Bromhead Lic. Soc. Apoth. The Medical Act of 1858 established the General Council of Medical Education and Registra...
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Saxilby Parish Magazine 1909

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Amongst the pieces of memorabilia we have in our archives is this Parish Magazine from March 1909. Printed by Ernest Stebbings of Saxilby, it features two pages of local advertisements. As many of you are aware, the Group has an extensive collection of photographs dating from the time, and I thought it may be possible to match a photo with the advertisement. Two of the adverts are for piano teachers.    Mr Scarborough of Lincoln was also St Botolph’s organist. I have searched both the 1901 and 1911 censuses for Mrs Gubbins and Portland House. A widow, she moved to Saxilby some time after 1901. I am unable to identify Portland House. By 1911 she is living with her widowed sister in cottages located on the Skellingthorpe Road by the side of the chemical works. She died in 1914, and is buried at St Botolph’s Church. There were two advertisers I could not locate. I can only find Robert Hardwick on the 1911 Census. He is living with his wife and five children on the High Street bet...
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D Day 80

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D-Day 80 On Thursday 6 th June we mark the 80 th anniversary of D-Day. The Group is assisting village organisations with events on the day to commemorate the occasion. One of the fallen remembered on Saxilby’s war memorials is Ronald Arthur Britt. He was the son of Harry and Eleanor Britt, the Foss swing bridge keepers, and the husband of Catherine Britt of Galashiels. He was a private in the 2 nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, which played a significant role in the events of D-Day landings. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the 2 nd Battalion was stationed in England. However, when the situation escalated in late 1939, they were deployed straight to France. After 9 months, the Battalion was evacuated from Dunkirk. Following this, they remained in Britain, primarily engaged in home defence duties and training exercises. On the 6 th of June 1944, the 2nd Battalion took part in the Normandy landings. They landed at Hermanville-sur-Mer, codenamed ‘Sword Beach.’ This e...
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Drinsey Nook

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We were recently contacted by Paul Kidd of Hunstanton asking if we could provide any information on a postcard which had come into his possession. Not only did we supply him with Drinsey Nook’s interesting history, but he sent us the card for our collection. We may receive further enquiries from him, as he is a postcard collector with over 30,000 cards in his collection. Drinsey Nook, a small hamlet of a few houses, straddles the border of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. It sits on the banks of the Foss Navigation at the junction of the A57 Lincoln to Worksop Road and the A156 Lincoln to Gainsborough Road. The name is derived from the Danish ‘ Drenges Eye,’ meaning ‘Dreng’s Island.’ Like ‘Saxilby’ (Saxulf’s Farmstead), the name would have been given by Danish settlers following the Viking invasions of eastern England in the 8 th and 9 th centuries. Vikings came from the whole of Scandinavia. They did not have horns on their helmets (a Victorian invention!). The name means ‘sea...
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Location: Saxilby, Lincoln LN1, UK
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Cycling in Edwardian Saxilby

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Cycling became popular at the end of the 19 th Century. However, before the invention of the safety bicycle in the 1880s, the pastime was an expensive hobby. A ‘penny-farthing’ cost £12 in 1880 (6 weeks wages), £800 today.   One of the earlier photographs in our ‘John Wilson Collection’ shows members of a Lincoln cycle club photographed outside the Sun Hotel in 1885. A later photo, taken in 1895, shows a gathering of cyclists at the same spot with their safety bicycles. This was obviously a large gathering, as you can see, they were followed by a stage coach. It was reported at the Annual General Meeting of Lincoln Cycling Club in 1885 that the opening run in the previous year was in the form of a picnic at the Sun Inn, Saxilby. Rev. Canon Fowler defrayed the cost of the club being photographed, and the photos were sold for the benefit of the club. On August 4 th , 1902 (Bank Holiday Monday), the Lincolnshire Echo reports - ‘ Encouraged by the success of the sports organized...
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Location: Saxilby, Lincoln LN1, UK
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