Old Boston

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Saturday, 26 January 2013

The Bostonian.

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Above and Below: The Bostonian in Boston Dock.   In March  1967, with champagne running down her bow the "Bostonian", the p...
Friday, 25 January 2013

Narrow triangle of Buildings.

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This narrow triangle of buildings that formed the junction of New Street and Bank Street (next to Tates fish and chip shop) were closed in S...
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Friday, 11 January 2013

New year oddments.

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Bryan Lea sent me a link to the following picture of the tug " Finlay " under construction at Scotts Bowling's yard on Clydes...
Thursday, 10 January 2013

Sleeping rough, being drunk and begging.

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It wasn't always the "good old days," take these 1905 cases for example. Edmund Towell, a labourer, of no fixed abode was ...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Boston's first railway bridge.

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Below is a view of the first railway bridge in Boston over the River Witham, erected by the Great Northern Railway Company and opened for tr...
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Monday, 7 January 2013

Gypsies.

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At about 10 p.m. one evening in June 1905 two families of German Gypsies entered Boston having been moved on from Wisbech. Their arrival cau...
Friday, 4 January 2013

Twiddy's Undertakers.

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Born in Botolph Street Boston in 1878, Henry Twiddy started work at an early age cleaning boots at Rainey and Son's factory before he we...
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