Boston in General

Well, they always say that you should write about something you know really well, so here is my pen portrait of my old home town. Home towns are funny things, aren't they? You spend your entire teenage existence moaning about how boring it all is, you go to university and travel round Europe desperate to get as far away as possible, then you settle down and get all nostalgic and want to go back! I'm quite fond of it now really, although it has changed enormously since I lived there - since the local farming jobs started to be taken up by Europeans, it has become a real cultural melting pot in a way that it never was before. Mostly in a positive way, but Boston is ...

Situated on the River Witham, with an area of approximately 139 square miles (that's 360 square kilometres for those of you who work in "new money"!), Boston has had a rich and varied history. The now small port, which rests at the edge of The Wash, was once the second busiest port in England. In the 13th Century, the port dealt mainly in wool and wine. In fact, the town's wealthy standards took a downturn as the river became victim to silting, thus altering the trading patterns. Boston is nestled in the midst of The Fens area of Lincolnshire, a chiefly agricultural area due to its geographical characteristics. Reclaimed from the ...

I am a bostonion. I have lived hear all of my 15 years and let me tell you its aload of rubbish! but I guess thats easy for me to say,SO I am going to tell you why....... Well there is a main road that basically goes through the heart of boston,and when it gets abit f****d up with traffic the WHOLE of Boston suffers,and let me tell you that is quite often! Boston has one of the worst reputations for people being beat up and stuff like that,There was a doccumentary on T.V not long ago with horrible scenes of people getting beat up at night. There are about 4 or 5 night clubs and aparently none of them are really all that good.But the town is ...