Old Boston

In 1921 the following was found in an old cutting book which, sadly, was dateless. The Peacock is mentioned and in the 1880's this hotel...

Mr. Walter Whyers (looking bck in 1935) remembers the beginnings of Boston Dock in 1882. Mrs. Simonds, wife of the Mayor, cuts the f...

MILL HILL. Mill Hill was a cluster of buildings situated at the top end of Wide Bargate roughly opposite to the Red Cow pub on what is now...

Thank you to Kim Loos, who lives in Minnesota in the U.S., who e-mailed me to say that Day's Cash Stores (which was situated in West Str...

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 smell of candy floss and toffee apples, the caterpillar and speedway, the steam yachts, Rhona the Rat Girl and the boxing booth………. Bos...