Boston has its fair share, perhaps more, of Art Deco buildings.

The West End Cinema doesn’t look so deco from this angle:-

But this corner doorway has Art Deco styling:-

There are Art Deco elements in this side view too:-

There was typical 1930s Deco styling on Marks & Spencer’s:-

Clarks has a vaguely deco look with an undoubted deco sunburst and “M” just above the Clarks sign – presumably a relic of the original occupant:-

As does QD Stores:-

Cash Generator was more to the point. Rule of three in and on the pillars:-

Then there was the striking Cammack’s:-

Rule of three in the windows, sunburst decoration in name frieze:-

I didn’t photograph all the plinths lining the avenue leading towards Boston War Memorial as there were about forty of them, some of which commemorated lesser known conflicts or aspects of large ones.

Arctic Convoys, 1941-45:-

Cyprus Veterans’ Association, 1955-58:-

Falklands War 1982:-

Suez, 1945-56:-

Dunkirk Veterans. (My father was one of the evacuees from Dunkirk):-

Dieppe, 1942:-

Battle of Jutland, 1916:-

Gallipoli 1914-16:-

Battle of the Somme, 1916:-

Battle of Amiens 1918:-

The War Memorial in Boston, Lincolnshire, is one of the most appealing to the eye I have seen. It has a lovely approach, a swan-neck topped pseudo archway, avenue of poppy-wreath-bedecked plinths:-

Approach pathway and plinths:-

The War Memorial itself is a simple cross set atop a pillar surmounting a square pedestal.
The inscription round the Memorial reads, “To the Glory of God and in Memory of the People of Boston who Died in Two Wars 1914-19 and 1939-45.”

Detail from south:-

Detail from east:-

Detail from north:-

Just beside the Memorial proper is this one to the man and women of the merchant and fishing fleets who “gave their lives but have no grave but the sea”.

One of the stop offs on the way down to the ferry across to Holland in May was at Boston in Lincolnshire, mainly because it was a town we’d never been to.

The town’s most prominent landmark is pretty unmissable. St Botolph’s Church. One of the largest churches in England. The spire is visible for some distance. This was from in the town though:-

Apparently the locals call it the Stump. It’s fairly hemmed in and difficult to photograph entire. This stitch couldn’t get in the spire:-

This is from the edge of the town square:-