ELDC in Manby
Tedder Block, RAF Manby, 1950s
Proclamation of King Charles III, Sept 2022
On Tuesday 27 September 1977, the Grimsby Evening Telegraph reported, “Yesterday was the great remove for East Lindsey District Council as departments from Spilsby, Skegness and Louth converged on their new home at the old Royal Air Force station at Manby, now headquarters for all sections of the Council.”
As the pantechnicons delivered their loads to Manby, the man in charge of the 1977 removal operations, Mr R H Lees, announced, “I am very happy with the way things have gone, and we are well ahead of schedule”.
Now, 45 years later, ELDC is moving out of Tedder Hall in Manby, to a state-of-the-art, eco-friendly building on Mareham Road in Horncastle. Tedder Hall will be sold to recover some of the funding used to build the new headquarters.
The area which is now Tedder Hall was the West Field of the village of Manby from the Middle Ages, when it was farmed in individual strips. In 1817 it was divided into separate fields. That all changed in the 1930s when the RAF came to Manby, and Tedder Hall was built. I wonder what the next chapter in its history will be.