page_title: Skellingthorpe
section_title: Sturdy's Grocers and the Co-op
hierarchical_section_title: Skellingthorpe / History / 20th century / Sturdy's Grocers and the Co-op
caption_attribution_description: English: This piece of equipment was presented to Skellingthorpe's Methodist chapel in memory of Mr E Sturdy in 1934
context_page_description: Skellingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,465. It is situated 3 miles west from Lincoln city centre, and just outside the A46 Lincoln ring road.
  The village of Doddington and Doddington Hall lie 1 mile to the south-west. Birchwood estate, built in the 1970s on the site of RAF Skellingthorpe, is 1 mile to the south-east.
context_section_description: The first telephone in Skellingthorpe was installed in 1925, in ‘Sturdy’s shop’ (a local tailor). This family business developed into a grocery, drapery and boot-shop. Following Mr Edwin Sturdy's death in 1934 the business was sold to the Co-operative Society in 1948. In 1955-1956 the little old shop was pulled down and the Co-op had another built on the site.
caption: The Methodist chapel's organ dates to 1934, and carries a plaque in memory of Mr Edwin Sturdy, who died that year.
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