Here are a few pictures that I can't find stories for at the moment, I hope you enjoy them.
In 1978 this lorry got stuck when the driver tried to get out of Mitre Lane in Bargate.
One of the many sets of cards given away by Beaulahs of Boston with their food products.
The Railway Mission Hall was in Fydell Crescent. Marriots Motors offices were built on the site and thankfully Marriotts kept this stone and built it into the new property.
The sixties group The Animals, on stage at the "Glider"
The last commercial sailing vessel to leave Boston Dock.
Some Boston nick nacks for the tourist trade.
An old Vesta case (match case) showing the Boston Coat of Arms.
An old picture of Carlton Road School.
Houses that were pulled down in Duke Street.
Looking out onto the Market Place from the Peacock and Royal window, note the Rum Puncheon in top right corner.
The Peacock and Royals curved window on show at the Guildhall.
Lord Nelson's Field in about 1966, built on its place now is the Nelson Way Industrial Estate.
Buildings on the corner of Pen Street and Main Ridge, demolished when John Adams Way was built.
The building of John Adams Way in the 1970's, with The Ram pub at centre right.
An old potato weighing machine used in the old hand-picking days.
The demolition of the Regal Cinema in West Street.
This is the Zion Church which was itself demolished and the Regal built on its site.
An old Lincolnshire Road Car bus and below an old Sharpes bus.
And finally some more nick nacks.
very interesting thanks for posting.
ReplyDeleteSheila
Thank you Sheila.
ReplyDeleteIn the old part of Main Ridge which was demolished, my dad used to run a Grocer's shop with his partner, Kath Lane. "Clay & Lane's" sat on a corner opposite Bolland's Gents' Hairdressers and it had a bookies behind it.
ReplyDeleteI have never been able to find a photo of Main Ridge that might have shown the shop, more's the pity. Dad used to go out to all the little villages around the town with his Bedford Hi-top mobile shop. He had to give it all up with the advent of the supermarkets, which have been killing independent traders ever since.