The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
I write with regards the subject of Santa Claus.
A hearing of his sleigh bells was formally recorded around 1954 in the region of Stockhouse Lane and Chase Road in Surfleet.
They were heard by a boy who lived there.
I know this because his mother told my aunties and I was in the room and heard her very words.
I am interested to know if any similar hearings or sighting of Santa have been recorded in the Spalding area in the last hundred years – on the night of the 24th I mean.
I am a fairly good sleeper so his bells never woke me but I know he exists because he always drank the sherry and ate the mince pie which we put on the heath for him.
Yours, hoping he will leave me a Giles annual.
Frances Richardson
Sufleet
