Boston, Lincolnshire: Historic North Sea Port and Market Town

ISBN-13: 9781848022706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 128 str.

John Minnis;Katie Carmichael;Clive Fletcher

Opis

Boston, in the county of Lincolnshire, England, is a small town that has had a big place in history, as a port with important links to Europe and America where homesick emigrants would later bestow its name on their new settlement. "Boston, Lincolnshire" examines its history as reflected in the town s buildings and townscape from medieval times to the present day.
The authors discuss its religious and public architecture and important influences on the town s development, including its agriculture and manufacturing, its transportation history, its physical expansion throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the problems created by the town s remoteness as well as its low-wage agricultural economy. A final chapter looks at how successful regeneration projects have been in Boston and how these can be built upon to promote a more prosperous future."