March Oddments.

Eight-day longcase clock with rolling moon c.1800 by Thomas Dickinson of Boston, in oak.

 

An advert for Willer and Riley's peas.

 

 

Roller and Harrow made by C & C Wright of Boston.

 

 

Strait Bargate.

 

 

The London warehouse stood near the Sam Newsom Music centre.

 

 

The Sluice Bridge signal box.

 

 

Two clocks.

The Haven Bridge clock.

The Haven Bridge clock was fitted by Managing Director Mr. J.V. Aaron in 1975, on the then premises of Boston Divers Ltd.

Originally buying and planning to put up the old Willer and Riley clock he found out it would take up too much space so in the end settled for the electric one pictured above. Mr. Aaron, said at the time that four clocks had been taken down or stopped working in recent years and as his office was in a busy area he thought a clock would be useful to motorists going over the bridge.

Willer and Riley's clock.

At the West Street end of Queen Street, where Aldi's supermarket now stands, stood the old Willer and Riley factory and in the apex of the gable facing toward the street was a circular opening that graced a clock. The clock was removed by Boston Corporation in about 1974 and placed into their Broadfield Street depot for storage and was purchased by Mr. Aaron as stated above. Since he could not use the clock it was sold to Bert Fleet (then Chairman of Directors at Fogarty's) whose stated intention was to erect a small tower within the entrance of Fogarty's Havenside works and install the clock therein. Unfortunately Mr. Fleet died before this was accomplished and Mr. Aaron had no idea what happened to the clock.    Does anyone know where it went?..............

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.

 

Some Boston Factories

A few of Boston's long gone factories.

Beaulahs, Bargate End.

Beaulahs, Tawney Street.

Hursts, South Square.

John Fishers label factory, Sleaford Road.

Johnson's, South Square.

Ladies sorting peas at Beaulahs.

Lin-Can, London Road.

Newham's feather factory, Witham Town.

Ladies working at Whittle and Copes cigar factory, Norfolk Street.

Willer and Riley, London Road.

Willer and Riley.