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1972
CHAPTER 5

NEW BOLINGBROKE TOWN HALL
After what seemed only a short time living at Ivy House, New Bolingbroke and while still
working for Firestone,

Restoration has just begun

I was asked to join the committee running the local Town Hall.
My wife Ruth had by now changed her job and was working as a theatre sister in the eye
operating theatre at Boston’s ‘New’ Pilgrim Hospital. Daughter Helen attended play school
with Mrs Taylor on Tattershall Road in Boston and she remained there each day until Ruth
left work and could collect her on the way home.

BACKGROUND
As readers may remember from previous stories, New Bolingbroke Town Hall was a focal
point of the ‘New Town’ built by John Parkinson in the early 1800’s.
It had already served as a school, meeting room, library and covered market.

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