AMAZON SMILE – You can now support Crowle Peatland Railway simply by buying things on amazon. For every purchase you make Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price at no extra cost to yourself. Visit smile.amazon.co.uk and select Crowle Peatland Railway as your charitable organisation. More information at https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html…
Join PhD student Kathryn Bullen as she explores ‘Axholme: Place -Names in the Marsh.’ A digital taster of Kathryn’s fully booked talk that we hope to reschedule this year. To learn more about Kathryn’s research visit her page – https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/kathryn.bullen To access a copy of the presentation click this link – https://sway.office.com/xE9x9ZxjTGzMbCxC?ref=email
On the 15th April 1945, a Lancaster bomber plummeted out of the sky and into the Warping Drain bank just outside Owston Ferry killing the eight men in board. Until recently, no one has known what happened to cause this or who the eight men were. A memorial stone to the men lost in this…
The Crowle Peatland Railway group would like to record members of the local community who may have a connection to peat extraction on the moors. The group aims to capture memories of this industry for use in their Crowle Moors workshop exhibition. In the past, this was an important industry that provided employment to residents…