Railway Station in Spilsby - special among the market towns in Lincolnshire UK

Railway Station 1976 by Clive Ironmonger

By the 1970s some signs of the existence of the Spilsby & Firsby Railway had disappeared, however, some buildings remained having found new uses. In 1976 I was compiling a project on the railway as part of my geography/history lessons, as a pupil of King Edward Sixth Grammar School Spilsby. I borrowed my mother's instamatic camera to record these scenes:

This view taken from the Spilsby Station Site shows the Grain Warehouse, which by 1976 had become a tractor dealership. . The Station buildings had become derelict, being demolished and cleared some years earlier. The site was used as a car and lorry park as it still is today. The Grain Warehouse survives but has lost its white painted sack hoist platform and the tractor dealer has added a new showroom.

Looking East, standing where the Station Platform had been, the building ahead was the Goods Shed. The brick and asbestos sheds to the right had been added as a knitwear factory. Today the knitwear business has gone but the Goods Shed remains, in use by a builders merchant.

Facing West back towards the Station site, on the left is the Goods Shed. The blue tin building to the right was the fuel oil distribution depot, which in 1976 was the local base of a nationwide security company. In front of the greenhouses a length of original railway fencing had survived. Coming up to date, the greenhouses have gone and the trackbed has factories of the Vale Industrial Estate built over it.

Railway Station by Clive Ironmonger