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15-year-old Elisabeth Vellacott who was a boarder at King Edward Grammar School described the 1920 Louth flood in a letter to her parents

A scarificator, was a bloodletting device that was used in the early Victorian period and was thought to cure many illnesses

Burditts, the printers, were at the junction of Mercer Row and Upgate

The flea trap was hung around a woman’s neck to catch fleas

This 19th Century clay pipe was found beneath a hedge in Little Grimsby

A true store of love and disenfranchisement

A working class girl who endured two stays in the workhouse and became a baker’s wife

The Golden Fleece Inn was on Louth Market Place, but in 1936 relocated to its present location in the former inn yard

In 1950 a new Malt Kiln was built in Louth to replace the one that had been destroyed by bombing in 1943