Cripplehall & 8 Row, Boston, Lincs

[hanes teulu]

Good news - Pishey Thompson's "The History and Antiquities of Boston" 1856 is on line under google books. Just pop "cripple" in Search

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_History_and_Antiquities_of_Boston.html?id=ZY0NAAAAIAAJ

[smokeyfeline]

Hi Hanes, following your latest links & referring to the map I think Cripple Hall was located where the Sunday School is shown 

[rosie99]

Images cannot be attached to this post because it is on a 'Look Up' board. 

[smokeyfeline]

Thanks Rosie99, didn't know that, still learning

[smokeyfeline]

Hi MollyC, A quick update, apparently the Iron Bridge could be the Railway bridge next to the Grand sluice when the railway was first being proposed

[MollyC]

My knowledge is simply because the river bridge was cast by Walkers of Rotherham, a company for which very little archive material survives.  J.G. James was an engineer at the Road Research Laboratory who researched early iron bridges in his spare time, published several papers and wrote in a footnote 1979:
“I am indebted to Miss B. E. Robinson, former Librarian at Boston, who in 1969 located the bridge records and allowed me access to them.”
These went to Lincolnshire Archives in 1974 or later, but the catalogue does not mention Walkers, who are probably somewhere within:
"4. Correspondence with John Rennie and others, 179?-1815 (60 items)"

[hanes teulu]

Check reply #1 and the Lincs Chronicle snip. Of course, no guarantee this was complied with. Also, arriving via Paddock Grove and Cripple Hall doesn't seem to fit.

See -
https://heritage-explorer.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Monument/MLI88916

[smokeyfeline]

I've been doing some digging following the help received and I think the Iron Bridge in question may not be the Town Bridge or the Railway Bridge but the bridge over the Grand Sluice, which was a footbridge and I wonder if what is (or was) the Witham Tavern was originally called the Barge due to the proximity to the lock, this map shows the proposed railway route https://maps.nls.uk/view/257577065 with a spur ending approximately where the swing bridge is now, note no dock has been constructed yet. Given that a lot of building took place in the intervening years between the 2 maps could the original Paddock Grove have been gobbled up by the railway and the name reused in expanded building?

[tetryon]

I've got relatives in the 1871 Census at Cripple Hall, which is how I found this thread. The highest street number is 56 Cripple Hall, and then it continues to 1 Station Street.

I found an article in the 26 October 1938 Boston Guardian, page 6, that describes Cripple Hall being pretty much where the Sunday school is on the 1889 map, as smokeyfeline mentioned.

Here's a link: https://imgur.com/a/BXuglLS