Old Boston

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Saturday, 25 May 2013

End of the month bits and pieces.

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A picture by F. Beales, photographer of Boston.   Claypoole's shop in Narrow Bargate.   The Finlay, a tug boat of old Bos...
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Saturday, 11 May 2013

Bargains at the Regal.

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In its golden era it was Boston's music-hall mecca. In the fifties, the age of the cinema, a seat in the one-and-nines for a Doris Day /...
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Sunday, 5 May 2013

The Masonic Hall.

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This unusual building, erected on part of  "Inlay's Garden" in Main Ridge, is a reproduction of the Temple of Dandour (The ...
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Saturday, 4 May 2013

The Town's Mills.

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Boston at one time was a maze of windmills, the one we all know is the Maud Foster Mill (the last one in the town) which has been restored t...
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Friday, 3 May 2013

Showbiz at the old Corn Exchange Hall.

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The Corn Exchange Hall was built in 1855 for the local farmers to carry out various corn transactions. After a time the farmers used it les...
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013

April snippets.

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Three Bostonians were among the men serving on H.M.S. Victory, Nelson's flagship, at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805. They were ...
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Boston's Trawler Fleet in the First World War.

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Boston's deep sea trawler fleet suffered a terrible toll during World War One. No less than 16 steam trawlers were sunk, at least 51 tra...
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