Old Boston

In 1910 the Swastika was a good luck symbol and nobody had any idea what it would mean 30 odd years later.  An old Boston postcar...

There are many people in Boston who are unaware that there was ever a church called St Aiden's Chapel of Ease down high-street, let alon...

In 1912 Mr Philip Harr, a farmer from Freiston, a village near Boston, had arranged for a new fence to be placed around his farmyard, and ac...

In 1912, Tattershall Castle was in a sorry state and needed repairs. Two men residing in Boston at that time, though not Bostonians, succeed...

THE GRIDDLER. To Griddle was to sing in the streets and most Boston Folk of 1911 would recognise old Mary, the Griddler. She was a little...

In 1910 Graves' Woad Farm - or "Wad Farm" as it was locally known - on Fishtoft Road, was one of the best-known landmarks in ...

I recently received an email from T. J. Glendinning, a volunteer at Fydell House,  telling me that the White Horse that once graced the fro...