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 Boston, Anderson's Feather Factory, Trinity Street 2005 (ref. B155720K) | Plans are also under way for economic developments that should benefit the privately owned port of Boston and the people and businesses dependent on it. During 2005 Lincolnshire Development, part of Lincolnshire County Council, prepared a bid for European funding under Objective 2 for the Boston Southern Enterprise Zone in the Marsh Lane area south of the dock. This would fund the construction of a dock link road, and the commissioning of detailed feasibility work in respect of a proposed barrage for the town. The Dock Link Road is planned to go from Spalding Road to Skirbeck Road via the dock, with a bridge over the Haven at the south end of High Street. This road will give access to the business premises along the east bank of the Haven south of the dock. The other proposal, for the construction of a barrage across the (Neil Wright) This splendid Victorian feather factory, built 1877, later became Edward Fogarty's first premises, and is now apartments. waterways If current plans are carried out successfully, the old quays of the Haven could return to the important place they held for centuries in the life of the town. A new barrage will be constructed downstream, expelling the tide, and boats will be able to moor at Packhouse Quay, Doughty Quay, and other places along the Haven through the centre of Boston. The project would connect the South Forty Foot Drain to the inland waterways of the Midlands via the Welland and Nene. Boston will be on a circular waterway route from Peterborough to Lincoln, and the new barrage will allow boats to travel safely from the Black Sluice to the Grand Sluice. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Boston, War Memorial, Wide Bargate 2005 (ref. B155718k) | On a happy day in August 1916 Alice Oldrid, one of four sisters who then owned the famous drapers shop in Boston, married Alan James Derrick of Redcar on Teesside, a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Reserve Batallion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, the Docks 1890 (ref. 26082) | In earlier times, war had only affected the soldiers and sailors directly involved and people who happened to live on or near the battlefield, or the route of the marching army. But in the 20th century the concept of 'total war' meant that everyone could be involved, and this affected Boston as much as elsewhere. The First World War started in August 1914 and, between the 22nd and 26th of that month, the German navy sank 26 British trawlers in the North Sea, ten from Boston and fourteen from Grimsby. Fishermen were taken prisoner and those of neutral nationality were soon released, but the British fishermen were sent to prison camps including 88 from Boston. Later in the war, more Boston fishing boats were Prisoners of War During the First World War (1914-18) Britain and Germany agreed to exchange prisoners of war who were incapable of military service. In December 1917, neutral Dutch ships brought disabled soldiers and civilians to Boston Deeps where they were transferred to tugs that brought them into Boston Dock. The Fish Pontoon on the dock had been made into a reception area with rest rooms, etc, and from there the soldiers were loaded onto hospital trains that took them to London and Nottingham. The prisoners included some Boston fishermen who had been captured in the North Sea; altogether over 5,000 prisoners landed at Boston. German prisoners were taken back in return. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Hussey Tower 1893 (ref. 32076) | To the right of the Tower you can make out haystacks in the farmyard (now the top end of Rowley Road) and behind the Grammar School. The fields attached to that farm are now Rowley Road, Pilgrim Road, York Street, the Grammar School playing fields and Boston College. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Market Place 1899 (ref. 43297) | A DOMINANT FACTOR in the life of Boston in the 20th century was Boston Dock. It attracted both of the author's grandfathers to the town! James Ainsworth was a master mariner like his father before him, and James Wright came here to work for the Great Northern Railway which itself expanded to meet the needs of the dock. In many ways, for Boston the 20th century started on 15th December 1884 when the first ship entered the dock. Boston Dock prospered throughout the 20th century and, for most of that time, was owned by Boston Corporation. In its early years it developed into a substantial fishing port with two deep-sea fishing companies, a fish quay and ice-house, and ship repairing facilities. Cargo ships no longer went upriver into the old port in the town centre; that was only used as moorings for fishing smacks. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Ostler's Mill c1950 (ref. B155015) | In the early 19th century there about a dozen windmills in Boston producing flour, and many were on sites that had been used for centuries. The only one remaining is the Maud Foster Mill built in 1819 for the brothers Thomas and Isaac Reckitt from Wainfleet, and later operated by the Ostler family. It ceased working in 1949, was restored as a landmark in 1953, and since 1987 has been brought back to work by the Waterfield family. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Grammar School, South End 2005 (ref. B155705k) | In 1551 the property of the Corpus Christi Guild ended up with Lord Clinton, and then the Marquis of Northampton claimed that of the other four guilds, though he handed back to the Corporation the guildhall and other goods and chattels, but not the guilds' land and property. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, the Sluice, Bridge and River c1955 (ref. B155064) | Commoners could gather thatch for roofs, cut rushes to strew on the floor, dig sods of turf for fuel, catch wildfowl, and fish in the numerous small lakes as well as putting cattle, sheep and horses out to graze. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, the River 1893 (ref. 32062) | It took a number of years to carry out the process of dividing up the land, laying out roads, digging drains, planting thorn hedges, improving the land, and harvesting the crops from more and more fields. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, London Road, Skirbeck Quarter 2005 (ref. B155714k) | For many years Sir Joseph helped other people to follow scientific exploration, and it was due to him that many Lincolnshire men were involved in the exploration of Australia, including George Bass, surgeon of Boston, Matthew Flinders of Donington and John Franklin of Spilsby. In the late 1700s, Bass (after whom the Bass Strait is named) had been apprenticed to Mr Francis who had premises in Strait Bargate, probably on part of the site now covered by Oldrids. His mother had run the Rope and Anchor Inn in Skirbeck Quarter (rebuilt in 1803 as the Crown and Anchor) and now 10 London Road (see below). In 1801-02 Flinders mapped the southern coast of Australia and named many places on the Eyre Peninsula from Lincolnshire: Port Lincoln; Boston Island; Revesby Cove; Cape Donington; and others. Before sailing on his ill-fated voyage to the Arctic in 1842, Sir John Franklin visited some of his Lincolnshire relatives; it is believed that one of the last houses he stayed in was 120 High Street, now called Franklin Lodge. Boston was growing commercially, but improvements in the quality of life only occurred when they served commerce. The pilot service was organised in 1774 and, in 1776, an Act of Parliament set up a body of men as 'Lighting and Watching Commissioners' (Neil Wright) The tall building in the centre is 10 London Road, which was the Crown and Anchor until the late 19th century when the licence was moved to smaller premises (since demolished) six doors to the left. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Pescod Square 2005 (ref. B155704k) | Boston Corporation came into existence on 14 May 1545. The charter not only gave them the lordship of the manor of Hallgarth and a large collection of property, but also the right to collect tolls belonging to the manor, and the right (previously held by the Order of St John) to appoint the Vicar of Boston. The Corporation kept the right to choose the two MPs for the town until 1640. It remained an oligarchy until 1835 when a major reform allowed it to be elected by some of the townspeople. It stayed that way until 1974 when a new borough council took over the town and surrounding rural district. Many towns had corporations like this, but in Boston there was an unusual further development. On 12 July 1545 the heads of the five incorporated guilds, four of whom were aldermen or councillors of the new Corporation, voluntarily handed over all the lands and goods of the guilds of St Mary, the Holy Trinity, St Peter and St Paul, St George and Corpus Christi. This meant that initially the Corporation employed a large number of priests and other officials to carry on the religious duties of the former guilds. Nicholas Robinson had resigned his position as Warden of St Mary's Guild to become the first Mayor of the new Corporation on 1 June 1545. The hall of St Mary's Guild became the Corporation's headquarters, and is still in use today as the town's museum. When King Henry died in 1547, a more Protestant regime was imposed under his son Edward VI. An Act of that year abolished guilds, and the new Boston Corporation lost the property it had got from the guilds. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, from the Ferry 1893 (ref. 32063X) | Boston Corporation came into existence on 14 May 1545. The charter not only gave them the lordship of the manor of Hallgarth and a large collection of property, but also the right to collect tolls belonging to the manor, and the right (previously held by the Order of St John) to appoint the Vicar of Boston. The Corporation kept the right to choose the two MPs for the town until 1640. It remained an oligarchy until 1835 when a major reform allowed it to be elected by some of the townspeople. It stayed that way until 1974 when a new borough council took over the town and surrounding rural district. Many towns had corporations like this, but in Boston there was an unusual further development. On 12 July 1545 the heads of the five incorporated guilds, four of whom were aldermen or councillors of the new Corporation, voluntarily handed over all the lands and goods of the guilds of St Mary, the Holy Trinity, St Peter and St Paul, St George and Corpus Christi. This meant that initially the Corporation employed a large number of priests and other officials to carry on the religious duties of the former guilds. Nicholas Robinson had resigned his position as Warden of St Mary's Guild to become the first Mayor of the new Corporation on 1 June 1545. The hall of St Mary's Guild became the Corporation's headquarters, and is still in use today as the town's museum. When King Henry died in 1547, a more Protestant regime was imposed under his son Edward VI. An Act of that year abolished guilds, and the new Boston Corporation lost the property it had got from the guilds. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Church 1890 (ref. 26734) | Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln. He became a leading member of the Catholic Church in England and was part of delegations to Church Councils in Europe. In 1414 he attended the Council of Constance and was appointed papal chamberlain, and returned to England as an envoy of the Pope. Fleming was in Italy again in 1419 when the Bishop of Lincoln died, and he was consecrated to the vacant post in the cathedral at Florence. He still played a part in local affairs, being Alderman of the Corpus Christi Guild in Boston in 1412-14 and in 1426. Fleming also founded Lincoln College at Oxford. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, County Hall, Church Close 2005 (ref. B155717k) | The national government also developed local offices. A central post office had been built in High Street in 1882-85, but in 1907 it was replaced by the present building in Wide Bargate which was soon extended to include the sorting office and the telephone exchange, where the author's mother worked for a while. Later public buildings included the employment exchange in West Street, built in 1939 in place of rented accommodation, and later the tax office in Norfolk Street, with hutments out in the back including the driver testing office. Boston did not have a public supply of electricity until 1926, about 40 years after it had been available in London and elsewhere. Until then Boston Dock and some large factories had to produce their own electricity. The gas 'Five Lamps' in the Market Place was replaced by an electronic lamp standard (with just two lamps!) and 50 years later that was moved to its present site in Liquorpond Street. In the period from 1851 to 1881 there had been no increase in the town's population, and after the dock was opened many newcomers could move into the stock of existing houses. From the 1890s several new streets of middle-class houses were built on remaining greenfield sites within the town and some even further out. One site on the north side (Neil Wright) This was the headquarters of Holland County Council from 1927 to 1974. The building now houses Boston Library and the Registration Service of Lincolnshire County Council. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Boston, Market Place and Church 1890 (ref. 26068) | Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise. There were brewers and tanners as well as shipbuilders, sailmakers, rope makers, coachbuilders and saddlers. One coachbuilder was John Mumford who had left the town but returned in 1834 and set up in business in West Street. He lapsed into drink and moved to Brixton in London in 1844, leaving his Boston business premises in the hands of his mortgagee. His daughter Catherine had seen at first hand the evils of drink in the streets of Boston and, after marrying William Booth in 1855, she and her husband became the founders of what is now the Salvation Army. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
