Boston, Lincolnshire

Sid Guest the barber....

I was taken to sids barbers by m y dad Ted McMullen...we were living on the corner of Ingram Rd and Shaw Rd then...60's....and my mum jean was the woman in the wheelchair with all the kids....dad worked at Van Smirrens for a while as well as demolishing the old hotel where Boots now is and the one where Woolies now... [more]

Sid Guest (Barber)

As kids, all of us "Fenside lot" would go to Sid Guests house in Granville Street for our haircuts. He had the front room done out with a mirror, seat and all the other things a barber needs. It was very cheap and all our mums could afford. Great days.

Great grandmother, Elsie Clara Doughty

my great grandmother, Elsie Clara Doughty, died two weeks ago. My great grandmother was married to Charles Doughty, my great grandfather, who Doughty Quay was named after in Boston.

Town of my great/grt. grandfather

My Great, great Grandfather--Thomas Garnham was married in this lovely church three days before the battle of Trafalgar in Oct---1805. He was described as a 'Sailmaker' at this time aged 24 years. He had connections to the 'Red-Cow' where is wife's parents lived and later was the landlord of the'Cross-Keys' which was eventually pulled down and replaced by... [more]

The Barge Inn

I have such fond memories of my school holidays staying with my Uncle Jack and Aunty Anne at the Barge Inn, Tattershall Road, ( I think they may have actually owned the pub). I used to love being spoilt by my aunt and uncle and also my father's brother Harry Pick who used to frequent the pub. They used to have... [more]

Showler's of Dolphin Lane

What a lovely site this is. I didn't live in Boston but spent many happy years in the 60' and 70's staying with my Grandma, Doris Showler, who had owned the sweetshop 'Showler's' in Dolphin Lane since the 1930's and later carried on working in it when she sold it on and it became 'Cuthbert's'. It's the shop which is now... [more]

Lincolnshire Pocket Album

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town. In fact it was probably the hall of a trade guild, but in its present form it owes more to John Oldrid Scott's 'restoration' in 1874 than the Middle Ages. It probably had an open ground storey for trade, rather like Thaxted's Guildhall in... [more]

Lincolnshire Photographic Memories

In South Street, Shodfriars Hall is an echo of the four friaries established in the medieval town. In fact it was probably the hall of a trade guild, but in its present form it owes more to John Oldrid Scott's 'restoration' in 1874 than the Middle Ages. It probably had an open ground storey for trade, rather like Thaxted's Guildhall in... [more]

Lincolnshire Pocket Album

Further south, High Street opens up to the river, the buildings terminating in an elegant early 19th-century five-storey warehouse with a hipped roof: more like a very tall villa than a warehouse. The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been,... [more]