In 1915 shortage of harvest labour saw schoolboys being released from study to help with farm work. The issue over whether this should be paid work arose and the President of the Board of Education, Mr. Henderson, showed wisdom in his instruction: “…local education authorities which take responsibility of excusing boys from school in order to serve the special needs of the country in the present emergency cannot reasonably disclaim responsibility for seeing that fair wages ar

In July 1912 an 80 year old John Dixon of 19 Spain Lane in Boston was interviewed about his life – the following are some of the excerpts printed from this interview that give insight into his work for the engineering firm Tuxford’s and then the Waterworks Company. In the interview he gave insight into the bones buried around Boston giving an insight into superstition, spirituality and local history: