Lutton Marsh

In 1915 this newspaper carried a portrait of Private George Back, who had been at war in France with the 2nd Lincolns for four months. Unusually for the time, there was also a picture of George's wife and his eight children, who lived at Lutton Marsh.

Arthur Edgley was a smallholder from his early 20s, but his heart has always been in the skies. Being shot down in 1943 – which resulted in him being interrogated by the Gestapo, accused of being a spy, and then locked up in a camp for almost two years ...