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Lincoln Town Walk Guide
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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 stands...He drank in the Hessle Pub for years...knew George Hull the gamekeeper....MAC
Contributed by jonathon Brackenbury
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.
Contributed by george thorn
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.
Contributed by Laura mitchell
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 what is now 'The New-England Hotel. I have searched for years for his place of birth with negative results. He died in 1841.
Contributed by gerald garnham
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 loads of fishermen staying there and there was a massive kitchen where Ann and her mum Mary used to do all the baking, I used to collect eggs early morning from the sheds with Ann and blackberries etc, for the home made pies.
I would stay for a few weeks during school summer hols and Easter time. I hadn't ...read more here
Contributed by Maureen Olrod
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
Contributed by Hazel Quinn
Extracts From Boston & Lincolnshire books
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 Essex, but it is a splendid reminder of the town’s medieval past.
An extract from from"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 Essex, but it is a splendid reminder of the town’s medieval past.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
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, like so many of its companions, demolished.
An extract from from"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, like so many of its companions, demolished.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Photographic Memories".
The paddle-tug ‘Boston’ was built at South Shields in 1875 for the Boston Steam Tug Co. She had a wooden clinker-
built hull and was powered by a grasshopper engine. Her steering position was on the main deck foreword of the
bridge. As well as for towing, she was used on excursion work.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".