Helpringham

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Helpringham

Helpringham, Hudson's Mill (1)

This was built as a mill with five floors and four sails in 1864.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Helpringham, Hudson's Mill, windmill, Jon Sass

Helpringham, Hudson's Mill (2)

Hudson's Mill worked by wind until the 1920s. Later an engine and then electrical power were used.

The tower is listed Grade II.

Location of mill: TF 135 405

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Helpringham, Hudson's Mill, windmill, Peter Kirk

Helpringham, Post Office & Church

Post Office on the left "P.Bird" with St Andrew's Church in the center.

Kelly's Directory 1930 lists "Bird Percy, grocer, Post office"

Also "Post, M. 0. & T. Office (to which messages may be sent for treatment as express letters). Letters arrive from Sleaford"

Undated Postcard

Helpringham, Saint Andrew, Church, Image, Post office

Helpringham, Primary School

This is how the Elementary School on High Gate may have appeared when first built in 1877.

It provided place for 156 pupils and had a house for the schoolmaster attached. The cost of the building was £1850.

The first teachers at the school were Mr Fricker and Miss Clara Davies.

Sketch by Hilary Healey

Helpringham, Primary School

Helpringham, Primitive Methodist Chapel

This was the second chapel built for the Primitive Methodists on this site on the Green. It cost £350 and was dedicated in 1883.

June 2017

Helpringham, Primitive Methodist chapel

Helpringham, St Andrew

This feels more a town church than a village one.

It is mostly in the Decorated style, restored from 1871-3. The pulpit and some of the pews are seventeenth-century.

Mark Acton, 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew

An impressive tower surmounted by a spire with pinnacles and flying buttresses.

June 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew

Helpringham, St Andrew, bench end

Seventeenth century benches have ogee tops surmounted by a variety of turned knobs.

June 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew, bench end knobs

Helpringham, St Andrew, font

St Andrew's font is circular on a square base with four corner shafts.

June 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew, font

Helpringham, St Andrew, Interior

The four-bay arcades are from the Decorated period. Restoration of the church took place in 1873.

June 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew

Helpringham, St Andrew, Interior

A fine array of oil lamps visible in this image probably from the 1930s.

Undated Postcard

Helpringham, Saint Andrew, Church, Image

Helpringham, St Andrew, organ

The organ at St Andrew's has an attractive array of pipes of the Victorian period.

June 2017

Helpringham, St Andrew, organ

Helpringham, St Andrew, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Helpringham, First World War

Helpringham, Village School

A sketch suggesting how the primary school in the village would have looked when first built in 1877.

The school opened on 8 April 1878.

Drawing by Hilary Healey, 1998

Helpringham, village school, Hilary Healey