What it was like to live in Boston in the past

1. What it was like to live inBostonin the past We are finding out imformation About Boston in the past.

2. Famous people of our area • Jean Ingelow was born on 13th March 1820. She was well known for writing poetry but in her spare time she wrote children’s novels. She wrote the high tide of the coast of Lincolnshire poem in 1834, it was about waves and all beautiful things that were created and imagined by Jean. She is most remembered for writing the children’s fantasy novel Mopsy the Fairy in 1869. She died in 1897.

3. Boston in the past In 1281 Robert Chamberlane set a fire then anotherfire he was sent to death to behanged by a rope in prison. Boston town had markets for the sale of cattle and sheep. In 1866 after a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease Boston’s cattle market opened again after being closed for 2 years. There was 250,000 cattle lost during this outbreak. Fishtoft is a parish in the Boston district.

4. Events The May fair has been held in the town every year since at least 1125. In the early 1800s there was a a May sheep fair. It was during the Napoleonic war in 1900 more of the fens and the coastal traffic of the port grew even greater. In 1620 one hundred puritans boarded the Mayflower bound for the New World. These people were the pilgrim fathers.

5. Important Buildings of Boston Boston Stump is massive and brilliant. In 2009 they celebrated the 700th year of St Boltophs church [Boston Stump]. In 1800 two people were cleaning the windows and they slipped lost there balance and died. Boston Stump is 272 feet high. Skirbeck quarter oilmill was built in 1870 top replace a windmill on this site beside the Black Sluice. The building later bacame a canning factory and was demolished in 1984 to make way for a supermarket. Boston Guildhall was built in 1390 and is where the Pilgrim Fathers were held after their arrest it is now a museum and is one of the oldest brick built buildings in Lincolnshire. Hussey tower was built around 1450 for Sir John Hussey a leading noble man in the county. Stories say that there are underground tunnels drom the tower to Rochford Tower.

6. Transport in our area • In 1836 railways were proposed to Boston from Nottingham and London but only got as far as planning. • The most popular transport in past times would have been walking because along time ago they didn’t have cars or anything electrical. They mostly walked, biked used a horse and carriage or river transport. • During the 11th and 12th centuries Boston grew into a notable town and port. The port was used to trade with Europe and was an important form of transport. • Just after the 1st world war a tug boat was used to ferry day trippers to Skegness and around the Wash.