The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
A trail of small plaques depicting various aspects of the heritage of Spalding and its surroundings has been mapped out.
Half of the 14 bronze casts have already been attached to buildings in Spalding town centre; the others are due to go on listed properties, with planning consent expected soon.
The £18,000 Spalding Public Art Trail is part of arts project Transported’s On Your Doorstep programme. Transported and Spalding and District Civic Society commissioned artist Joseph Hillier to carry out the work.
He made 3D scans of local people, from which the plaques were cast.
On Friday (April 22), Mr Hillier and members of Transport and the civic society joined people taking their first look at the artwork in place.
The plaques are at:
- Chain Bridge Forge, High Street – resident blacksmith Will Pegram
- Riverbank Studios, Double Street – artists John Gray and Helen Webber
- The Lincolnshire Poacher, Double Street – retired drainage engineer John Honnor
- Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, Broad Street – Maia Dempsey texting
- Boston College, Red Lion Quarter – former Cowbit postmaster and mistress Peter and Vivien Higham
- Penningtons, Red Lion Street – pregnant Kristina Taylor and Sam Morgan expecting their first child
- The Red Lion Hotel, Market Place – market trader Steven Andrews
- Crown Affair Hair and Beauty, Hall Place – grower Mick Lawson
- Ringrose Law, Hall Place – Spalding Auction clerk Ian Tyers
- The Prior’s Oven, Sheep Market – farmers Fiona and Carol Grundy
- JF Inkley The Man’s Shop, The Crescent – farm worker Bartosz Maslowski
- Bookmark, The Crescent – farmer Rex Sly
- George Adams and Sons, The Crescent – sisters Mary and Elizabeth Adams
One of the two groups led on a tour of plaques sites last week and (right) Liz and Mary Adams with the cast of them on the side of the family butcher’s shop in The Crescent.
