Old Boston

The "Boston Society" magazine ran from September 1899 to August 1902, here is a glimpse of the things it told us. In the fashio...

HALF CROWN HILL. The Ostrich and Gaol, demolished to enlarge the churchyard. In 1774, Mr. John Parish gave the Ostrich public house ...

In November 1951 the sudden appearance of a King’s head on the front of the newly constructed frontage of Stanwell’s Garage, near Vauxhall B...

1808 AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND RELIEF OF PERSONS IMPRISONED FOR SMALL DEBTS...

This was the old Boston Flesh Market, or Butchery, it was drawn by William Brand and dated June 1806. The Flesh Market was where all meat...

The old Gaol is on the right of this drawing. In September 1898 a set of gibbet irons (below, left) and a headsman's block from Boston...