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CHARLES
Charles had come to see the vehicles in our small museum most of them on loan from Mr
Paul Tointon who had been County Commissioner of the British Driving Society
immediately previous to Mrs Sue Goffin.
Paul had recently moved from his large home just outside Louth and purchased a beautiful
private wood just outside Spilsby where he had a pleasant secluded home but no storage
room for his valuable collection of antique horse drawn carriages.

Together with our own small collection of four, there were over twenty different types of
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horse drawn vehicle to be seen dating from the late 18 century.
Charles was in his element as he had started his working life before the First World War as
an apprentice wheelwright.
In his own large collection of vehicles was a two wheeled traditional Lincolnshire farm cart
that he had built in his apprenticeship. The cart had been presented to him on his
retirement by a local farmer whose family had used the cart from the very day that Charles
had built it.
Charles was an old gentleman now and lived on his own next door to the workshop at
Croft, just outside Skegness, where he began his working life. Next door and behind these
premises were the extensive modern works developed by his son Roy, the inventor of the
‘teleporter’; the fork lift truck with the extendible nose!

Picture above of
Roy Sanderson receiving his Queen’s Award for Industry from HM The Queen.

I enjoy talking and find people and their interests fascinating; Charles was of a like mind
and consequently it was after 1.30am the next morning before he decided to take his
leave. We were most fortunate to have had that pleasure and hope it gave him pleasure
too as within a couple of months Charles had died.

That same two wheeled traditional Lincolnshire farm cart that Charles had used in his