A “very visual symbol” of Spalding’s history is back on a museum rooftop after 150 hours of restoration.
Dating back to 1810, the weathervane, mostly made of copper, depicts a three-masted seagoing vessel.
It was placed back onto Spalding Gentlemen’s Society museum roof on Broad Street on 4 November after it was refurbished by one of the museum’s members, Robert Frost.
Dustin Frazier Wood, head of collections and operations at the society said: “That ship really represented a very long, hundreds of years history of shipping in Spalding and its connections with the world.”
The weathervane was originally situated in the former Ship Warehouse in Double Street before it was demolished in 1964. It was first displayed on the museum’s rooftop in 1996.
Wood said the restoration was needed as the weathervane had been “exposed to the elements for nearly 200 years”.
He said: “This is a place in theory you could board ship and go out to sea around the world as so many people in Spalding did.
“For the town it’s that very visible symbol of the history of the place and its connection to the wider world.”
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