When Tawney Street was new.

In The Boston Guardian 1906, Mr A.R. Parker looked back at the changes in Boston during 
the years from 1850 to 1906.

New streets have been opened in recent years in the heart of the borough. For
instance, the once beautiful private park (known in former times as Hopkins Park) has been sliced up, and speculators and builders have certainly been in unison with regard to appearance to make this a very pleasant thoroughfare leading from Red Lion Street into Robin Hoods Walk. In the centre of Bargate another opening has been made, called Tawney Street, adjoining the very old time establishment of Woollard's Carriage Work.

Woollard's Carriage Works is in the centre of the picture with an unknown old building next 

door, and below is the scene today.

This also has a through way into Robin Hoods walk, but as only one side is at present being rapidly filled in with delightful villa residences, the aspect to the front of these villas ispicturesque, with its splendid row of giant trees formed up in line and reaching the whole length of the newly formed street.

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.