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Spilsby airfield from the air 1944. The village of Great Steeping is centre left of the pictures
in line with the square outline on the left of the runways. We are looking here North East to
South West.

CHAPTER NINETEEN
“SANDERSONS”

Not long after the centre had opened we had a visit one evening from Charles Sanderson.
He was the gentleman who owned the ‘Batemans’ heavy horse dray that we had used for
the brewery publicity photographs in Boston.
The dray, designed exclusively for use with large beer barrels, had originally belonged and
been used extensively by Shipstones Brewery of Nottingham.
Charles had bought it when the brewery had stopped using horses in the City. The dray
was very heavily built to cope with its load of 20 barrels each holding 45 gallons of beer;
there were no brakes!