Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire - Chuch of St. Peter - local postcard c.1940s

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  • Picture / Image:  Church of St. Peter, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
  • Publisher:  E. H. Neale, The Vale, Woodhall Spa [difficult to date but probably 1930s to 1950s]
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Woodhall Spa is a civil parish and village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England within a wooded area on the Southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, about 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Horncastle and about 15 miles (24 km) east-south-east of Lincoln. It is noted for its mineral springs, cinema, and its Second World War association with the RAF 617 Squadron. The cinema has the last remaining rear screen projector in the country.

Woodhall Spa came about by accident in 1811 after John Parkinson, of Old Bolingbroke made several attempts to find coal.[2] After spending several thousand pounds, and sinking a shaft over 1,000 feet deep, the enterprise was abandoned on account of the now rising spring.[3][4]The spring flows daily through soft spongy rock, at a depth of 520 feet.[5]

About 1834, the then Lord of the Manor, Thomas Hotchkin, ascertained by analysis that the water was in fact valuable, being an iodine and bromine containing mineral spring.[6] He spent nearly £30,000 sinking the well and erecting the Spa Baths and the Victoria Hotel.[2][7]

The Victoria Hotel burned down on Easter Day, 4 April 1920 when an electrical fault in the boiler room spread to the linen room above.[8]The Spa Baths finally closed when the well collapsed in 1983.[9]

Other hotels sprang up due to Woodhall Spa's popularity and included:

The Legacy Woodhall Spa Hotel, which opened in 1882 as the Eagle Lodge Hotel.[10] It was converted into a nursing home in the 1960s and reopened as a hotel in 1991.[11]

The Golf Hotel was originally called Clevedon House and has been a school, a club, and a hotel of the same name.[12][13]

Most of the Royal Hydro Hotel and Winter Gardens were destroyed by a parachute mine which fell on 17 August 1943, although part of it did survive and became the Mall Hotel.[13][14]

The Petwood Hotel is so called because it was originally built at the turn of the 20th century as a house for Lady Grace Weigall, who had it constructed in her favourite wood, her ""pet wood"". Lady Weigall turned her former home into a hotel in 1933.[13]

The heyday of Woodhall Spa was recorded by a local photographer, John Wield, and many of his photographs are displayed in the Woodhall Spa Cottage Museum, which was his home.[13][15]

Much of the village's Victorian elegance remains, and since January 1991 it has been a designated conservation area.[16]

Saint Peters church was built in 1893[48] although it was not until 1915 that it was legally designated the parish church.[48] Until then the little church of Saint Andrews, built in 1846,[49] was the parish church, but was too small for the rapidly growing town.[48] Woodhall Spa is part of a group of six Anglican parishes comprising: Woodhall Spa and Kirkstead, Stixwould, Horsington, Langton with Old Woodhall, and Bucknall with Tupholme.[50]

The Church of Our Lady and Saint Peter,[50] built in 1893,[49] is Woodhall Spa's Roman Catholic church.