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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lincolnshire => Topic started by: Pat on Thursday 13 January 11 05:49 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone provide me with an old photo of St. Botolphs School in Boston please. I don't think it has been a school for some years now.
Cheers,
Pat.
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Im afraid I cant - although it is listed on Friends Reunited - and someone MIGHT have posted a photo of it on that site. I cant find out as I am no longer a member of said site.
I am writing mainly cos I saw Biggadike amongst your family interests and wondered if you were related to Richard & Priscilla Biggadike of Kirton in Holland, as I am....
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Hi,
Thanks for answering my query. As I am a member of Friends Re-United I will check it out and see what I can find re St. Botolphs.
Yes, I am a member of the same Biggadike family you mention. Richard, who was murdered was my GGGrandfathers brother. Where do you fit in?
Cheers, Pat.
Im afraid I cant - although it is listed on Friends Reunited - and someone MIGHT have posted a photo of it on that site. I cant find out as I am no longer a member of said site.
I am writing mainly cos I saw Biggadike amongst your family interests and wondered if you were related to Richard & Priscilla Biggadike of Kirton in Holland, as I am....
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My GG gran Rachel Whiley was Priscillas sister. :o
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Just out of interest did you manage to find a picture? Was the building demolished, if not where was it/what did it look like? Someone who lives locally may be able to get you a modern photo if that would be of any use.
If it's an older photo you're after and you have no luck here then maybe contacting Boston library or Lincolnshire Archives (in Lincoln) might help (possibly with a fee), but worth asking?
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I'm so sorry to have taken so long to answer your post. No unfortunately I couldn't find a pic of St. Botolph's School.
I'm not sure, but I think it was in Pump Square Boston.
Pat.
Just out of interest did you manage to find a picture? Was the building demolished, if not where was it/what did it look like? Someone who lives locally may be able to get you a modern photo if that would be of any use.
If it's an older photo you're after and you have no luck here then maybe contacting Boston library or Lincolnshire Archives (in Lincoln) might help (possibly with a fee), but worth asking?
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I don't think it was actually in Pump Square, but I do believe it was in the Main Ridge area. A look on old maps should establish where it was.
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Well, I am going back 60 years, so may be wrong. But I don't really think so. Shall be seeing my mother tomorrow, she will know.
Cheers,
Pat.
I don't think it was actually in Pump Square, but I do believe it was in the Main Ridge area. A look on old maps should establish where it was.
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Hi again,
My mother thinks Pump Square runs into Mainridge. So maybe thats how I came to think it was in Pump Square.
Cheers,
Pt.
I don't think it was actually in Pump Square, but I do believe it was in the Main Ridge area. A look on old maps should establish where it was.
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Could it have been the school at the SE corner of Pump Square?
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=532941,344114
Select the 1889 town plan (on the right)
The 1968 1:2500 map puts a name on it but it's very small.
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I was able to give the map 200% magnification and still read it. The school which is next to Pump Square methodist chapel is St. Botolph's. Looking at the map Pat, Main Ridge does indeed run into Pump Square, which then runs into Dolphin Lane and then Boston Market Place. I wonder if Google Street view shows it?
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The chapel is there but there are new houses beyond http://tinyurl.com/4zzqdj6
I've never been able to get the "enhanced zoom" to work :(
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It worked for me Geoff, unusual for that type of thing to work on any of my systems. My guess is that the school has been demolished and replaced by the new houses, but it would need a local person to confirm.
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My guess is that the school has been demolished and replaced by the new houses, but it would need a local person to confirm.
I think I've only ever set foot in Boston once, but it's quite apparent that the school is no longer there http://tinyurl.com/5tbwmdo
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St Botolph's may have originally been called the National School.
Kelly's 1900 Lincolnshire directory says
"National (School), Pump Square (mixed), established in 1815 and rebuilt in 1849 in the Elizabethan style for 470 children; average attendance 402; Alfred James Clark, master; Miss Gertrude Teamby, infants' mistress."
In Kelly's 1926 Lincolnshire, the school is described as 'Church of England.... H G Woods, master; Miss A Lewsley, infants' mistress'.
Not connected with the original query, but also possibly of interest is that Launchbury's cycle shop was previously the United Methodist Free Sunday School, established 1872. Stone tablet above the shop sign says it.
The Free Methodist Chapel itself, first erected in 1856, was re-fitted and had a new organ in 1906, and was then able to seat 450 people.
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It was shown as the National school on an 1889 map Pam, so I think that is proved. I guess it became known as St. Botolph's since it was possibly the closest school to the parish church (The Stump)
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Took this pic of my old school in June 2009. If you zoom into the plaque you will see it closed in 1982 and was sadly demolished in 1992.
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As a CofE school it would have been associated with the parish church; Boston Stump.
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Have been looking at Historical Directories on line.
According to the Lincoln Directory, 1913 there are 3 St Botolph's Church schools in Lincoln (Boys - T W Gunton, Girls - Miss E A Pepperdine and Infants - Miss K E Whattam). The Girls and Infants are in Bargate, between Sidney Street and Craven Street.
Can't find a St Botolph's in Boston. According to Kelly's Directory 1919 the school in Pump Square is the National School
regards
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I was standing in Pump Square when I took the photo and I went to this school from 1962 to 1969. Lily the pink was number 1 when I had my last Xmas party there :) and in all that time it was St. Botolphs primary school
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Though I never went there, St. Thomas' Cof E in my case from 1945 to 1950, I only ever knew of St. Botolphs as that and never as the national school, so it is safe to assume the name changed between 1919 and 1945.
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I went to this school too until '63/4.
Thanks for putting the photograph on here