Tinned food in Boston

I was e-mailed this old picture of workers at Beaulahs by Shirley Coope, wife of my friend Terry Coope and she says, "Tez's aunt Ruby Jackson (nee Betts) is on the front row 5th from the left i think she was about 16 years old, she's 83 now so would be about 1945."


Thanks Shirley, you got me looking for some other stuff on the canning factories and I have set down below the things I have collected.

This was Beaulahs Tawney Street factory.............

.........and their Bargate End factory.

Some more ladies, of a different time period, sorting peas at Beaulahs.

A Beaulahs advertisement.

Beaulahs cards given away with their products.

This photo doesn't specify which factory, it just says, "Girls at a canning factory in Boston, Lincolnshire, making 'Blitz Soup'", blitz soup was distributed to all bombed areas; the pictures in front of them are of RAF aces so was obviously taken during world war two.

Another canning factory was Lin-Can which was down London Road, where Somerfields supermarket is now.

And the building next door to Lin-can with the dome was yet another canners Willer and Riley's.

The two pictures below show the building being demolished to make way for Somerfields.