Comment by Gordon Eden(9th February 2010)

As a boy I lived near to these gates. I did, in fact, live in a small farmhouse (long ago demolished) about 400 yards behind the photographer. I often used to play in the park beyond these gates and occasionally caught the late bus to Scunthorpe that ran along the road beyond the Castle of Fillingham from Lincoln. As a very young lad, (I am now 66) I spent a night in the right hand lodge as a guest of Mr and Mrs Bee who took me to Bell Vue zoo by bus leaving early that morning. (A long journey in those post-war days). If you were to see the size of the lodge you would no doubt wonder how a family were able to live in such a small space.

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Comment by Kath Doyle(12th September 2011)

My ancestor William Brougham, born 1789, was Gamekeeper at Fillingham Castle in about 1839. He had his portrait painted by one of the visitors to the Castle a Mary Ellen Best who was visiting her relatives, the Daltons who at the time (1839) owned Fillingham Castle where William was employed. White's Directory of 1872 records John Dalton Esquire at The Castle , Fillingham. It states that his main residence is Sleningford Hall, Yorkshire.

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