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- 8 photos on Donington appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Donington
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Memories of High Street
This is a very significant picture to me although taken a good many years after we left high street for Mill Lane. My sister, Hilda and I were both born in one of the houses just beyond the white building, in our time that was the bakery, run by a Mr Wilson and family. (Hilda was born in 1918 and I in 1921.) The first house was Mr Arthur Burton's, then ours, Mr George White, after the archway was Mr Gideon Wilkinson. We moved to Mill Lane in 1936! On the opposite side of the road was the Primitive Methodist Church and the Manse. I remember Mr and Mrs Wacey when he was the Preacher then Mr Arthur and family took ...read more here
Contributed by Winnie Nowaknee White
Lincolnshire memories
Memories of High Street
This is a very significant picture to me although taken a good many years after we left high street for Mill Lane. My sister, Hilda and I were both born in one of the houses just beyond the white building, in our time that was the bakery, run by a Mr Wilson and family. (Hilda was born in 1918 and I in 1921.) The first house was Mr Arthur Burton's, then ours, Mr George White, after the archway was Mr Gideon Wilkinson. We moved to Mill Lane in 1936! On the opposite side of the road was the Primitive Methodist Church and the Manse. I remember Mr and Mrs Wacey when he was the Preacher then Mr Arthur and family took ...read more here
A memory of Donington contributed by Winnie Nowaknee White
Langrick
I was born at Church Corner, Langrick, in one of a pair of tied cottages. My godparents lived next door. My mother was Joyce May Cargill, and she was living with her parents, Eva Kate and George Herbert White at the time of my birth. my father was Joseph William Cargill. He was in the Army, fighting in the second World War.
My paternal grandparents were Mary and John Perry Cargll. They lived a short distance away, along Armtree Road. There is not a trace of the little cottae where they brought up their large family.
The house where I was born on March 21st 1943 has now been converted into single dwelling. the old apple tree ...read more here
A memory of contributed by Josephine Manley
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 the perfumerie. It seems that anyone who grew up in the area at that time visited the shop for their sweeties and, later, their ciggies! I'm currently writing a book about my past and would love to hear from anyone who has personal memories of the shop and my lovely gran. You can find me at www.hazelquinn.com ...read more here
A memory of Boston contributed by Hazel Quinn
Extracts From Donington & Lincolnshire books
Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library. Behind the Hovis sign, a fire station has since been built, but the rendered building in the middle distance, The Black Swan, is still a pub today.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
This view looks west from the Market Place into Station Street. Beyond the Black Bull inn sign are the three gables of No 2, Pointz House, in which captain Matthew Flinders, the explorer of Australian shores and seas, was born in 1774. The Black Bull itself is a 17th-century building refronted in the 18th century.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year. This view looks east from the Market Place along the High Street, not the most distinguished in Lincolnshire; however, the Red Cow is a coaching inn with an 18th-century refront to a 17th-century inn and has a former assembly room to its right.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Pocket Album".
Heading towards Boston, we reach Donington on the Grantham to Boston road, an attractive market town, once the centre of a flax and hemp trade with three hemp fairs a year. This view looks east from the Market Place along the High Street, not the most distinguished in Lincolnshire; however, the Red Cow is a coaching inn with an 18th-century refront to a 17th-century inn and has a former assembly room to its right.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
There used to be a Saturday market here, but eventually the larger markets of Boston and Spalding took its trade. The A52 leads to Boston, and the A152 goes on to Spalding. Get A Head (a ladies’ hairdresser) has taken over from Margaret Graves (left), and the chemist (centre left) is still there. Wilkinson’s (centre right) is now Marshall’s fruit and vegetable shop, and a Chinese takeaway has appeared. The Red Cow hotel/pub (the white building on the right) has been boarded up for ages, and it needs assistance desperately. At long last the Black Bull Inn (just visible on the extreme) right was being restored and refurbished when this research was being undertaken in 2003.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memoires".