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Saturday, 28 September 2013

The Drill Hall.

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The Drill Hall today. The Territorial Drill Hall, in Main-ridge, the new home of the "C" company, 4th. Battalion, Lincs. Regi...
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Friday, 27 September 2013

The old Watch House.

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The Watch House. The building on the left was then Boot's the Chemist and today is a Chinese Restaurant This Watch House stood at t...
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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

End of month round-up.

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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...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Down among the dead men.

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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...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

Treasure find.

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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...
Saturday, 21 September 2013

Ivy Hall, Wyberton to Tattershall Castle.

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In 1912, Tattershall Castle was in a sorry state and needed repairs. Two men residing in Boston at that time, though not Bostonians, succeed...
Friday, 20 September 2013

Tramps and Beggars. 1911.

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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...
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