Sokna of Haugesund, Norway offloading timber at Old Ferry Wharf.

"Old Ferry Wharf can accommodate vessels up to 120m in length and 3100dwt, with spring tide drafts in excess of 5m. Vessels may sit safely aground at low tide ...

its 2 acre storage yard have been heavily involved in the forwarding and distribution of Baltic timber products"

http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=926  

Geoff Swain Collection 25 April 1994

"Custom house, now offices. 1725 altered early C19 and C20 ... to the rear yard further remains of vaulted undercroft to in No.10 South Street (qv), being part of the former Dominican Friary which was founded in late C13"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389001?section=official-list-entry 

An entry in Kelly's Directory 1885 has "Custom House, South street, George P. Charleton,collector; Henry Shepherd, clerk; John Watson, examining officer; S. W. Fields & Charles Campion, out-door officers"

DB 1 May 2019

"The Custom House for Boston from 1725 until 1983 and occupies the site of an earlier Customs House purchased from The Crown in 1662. It faced the main quay of the port until the opening of the Dock in 1884. Traces of medieval stonework from the Dominican Friary survive in the building".

DB 1 May 2019

Above the doorcase "a painted timber Royal Arms"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1389001?section=official-list-entry 

DB 3 August 2019

Local signage states that :-

"The former Trinity House Buoy dates back to the 1950s or earlier and was used in The Wash within the waters under the navigational jurisdiction of the Port of Boston.

Its last position was to mark the deep water Parlour Channel which was used by commercial shipping until the 1980s and more recently by fishing and leisure craft. 

The buoy has been made available at a substantial discount by Captain Richard Walker, Port of Boston's Harbour Master.

The Port of Boston repainted it in traditional colours to comply with International Association of Lighthouse Authorities' recommendations and guidelines, the internationally recognized system of buoyage"

DB 1 May 2019

Boston Dock was built south of the town centre by Boston Coroporation as the Harbour Trust.

The first vessel entered the Dock on 15 December 1884 and ended a thirty-year period of economic stagnation for the port.

Boston Dock has a seven-acre basin and was built in fields to the south of the town centre.

Its traffic included the import of Baltic timber and export of coal from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

A coal hoist can be seen to the right in this picture.

Boston Dock had railway sidings and two large granaries to hold grain for export.

One of the granaries is to the left in this picture but both were demolished in the second half of the twentieth century.

For a number of years Lincolnshire potatoes (in 56lb bags) were exported through Boston.

Today the fishing fleet moors below the railway bridge.

Trading vessels lie either in tidal berths beside the dock where there are facilities for handling scrap steel or in the dock itself where there are facilities for handling paper, steel coil and grain as well as timber and general cargo, including containers.

Image 1975

Even after Boston Dock was opened south of the town, paddle steamers Privateer and Boston were still moored at the old quays in the town centre and occasionally took pleasure trips into the Wash.

This paddle steamer passes the timber yard in the South End on its way downstream.

Port of Boston viewed, across the River Witham, from London Road.

Part of the Victoria Group :- 

https://www.victoriagroup.co.uk/about-us/port-of-boston/ 

DB 5 June 2019

A photograph taken around 1900 looking towards Segmere Street.

Serious, regular cliff erosion threatened the house in this terrace.

Type 22 Pillbox on north bank of The Haven near the Jolly Sailor Light Beacon.

"British hardened field defences of World War II were small fortified structures constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations. They were popularly known as pillboxes, a reference to their shape"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_hardened_field_defences_of_World_War_II 

Light beacon used as a navigational aid by shipping. 

DB 6 March 2020

Blue plaque commissioned by Marshall's Yard shopping centre which now occupies the site of Britannia Works.

"HM MIDGET SUBMARINE X24 (HMS EXPEDITIOUS). This plaque is to commemorate the building of HM Submarine X24 on this site in 1943 by Marshall Ltd, Gainsborough, the crews that manned her & the two successful operations conducted in Bergen, Norway against the German ship BARENFELS & the U-BOAT FLOATING DOCK"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-class_submarine 

DB 18 June 2019

View of Alexandra Dock at Grimsby showing the destruction of the PS Lincoln Castle at the stage reached on 15 October 2010.

The vessel was built on the Clyde in 1940 by A & J Inglis and was taken out of service in 1978.

It was the last coal-fired paddle steamer in regular service.

Chris Lester, 2010

The 8-storey Victoria Mills was built as a grain store in 1889 and is flanked by buildings of 1906, now converted to flats.

Corporation Bridge is an electrically operated lift bridge built in 1925.

The PS Lincoln Castle was a coal-fired paddle steamer which operated for many years as a Humber ferry between Hull and New Holland.

It was scrapped by its owner in 2010.

Frank Robinson, 2010

The 303 ft dock tower was built in about 1850, in the style of that of Siena town hall.

Originally the tower contained a 33,000 gallon water tank at a height of 200 ft, the head of water providing the hydraulic pressure to operate the dock gates and dockside cranes.

This early use of hydraulics was designed by Newcastle engineer William Armstrong.

The high pressure hydraulic accumulator tower (seen to the left) replaced the original system in 1892.

Frank Robinson, 2010

This postcard of Grimsby Docks shows the dock tower, the Royal Dock and the fish docks.

On the left is the Royal Dock, which opened in 1852, and was given the name 'Royal' following the visit of Victoria and Albert two years later.

The original fish dock dates from 1856 and a second fish dock was added in 1877 - a later extension to the east being made in 1934 (all to the right in this view).

Out of view is the Alexandra Dock.

Postcard

Postmarked 6 March 1922 

Postcard

Postmarked 5 October 1921

From The Adelaide Advertiser 2 October 1901:-

"London, October 1. The Grimsby fishermen, who have been out on strike for some months against the wages paid by the steam trawling companies, and who lately became so riotous that troops had to be sent to quell the disturbances have gone back to work.

The employers have agreed to submit the dispute to be arbitrated on by the Board of Trade, and the Earl of Yarborough has induced the men to resume their employment pending the decision.

Lord Yarborough is Vice-Admiral of Lincolnshire, and in virtue of his office has much influence with the men.

The strike has been a terrible disaster to Grimsby, which is the greatest fishing town in the United Kingdom, and there is universal satisfaction expressed at the happy result of his lordship's mediation"

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4900244 

Undated postcard "Jay Em Jay" Series

Construction of Immingham Dock began in 1906. It was officially opened by King George V and Queen Mary on 22 July 1912.

Unposted F.C.C. series postcard.

This aerial view of Immingham Dock, probably dating from the inter-war period, shows the extensive railway marshalling yard.

The dock opened in 1912. Its area was 45 acres (about 18Ha) and the full length of quayage almost 6000 ft (about 1800m).

The Dock Offices is the red building to the left of the dock entrance.

In the left foreground: the eastern jetty with passenger station. In the right foreground: the western jetty with coal hoist.

Jay-em-Jay postcard, undated

See other images of this dock

The Grit was a 501 ton Motor Coaster built in 1934 by George Brown & Co of Greenock. She sank on 5 November 1943 after colliding with an American steamship 1 mile SE of the Tyne Piers.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck. 

Exceptionally strong winds and a very high tide on 31 January 1953 combined to produce a storm surge that broke through the sea defences along several stretches of the Lincolnshire coast.

Much of Mablethorpe was inundated by the sea and there were several deaths in the town and neighbouring Sutton on Sea.

Part of modern coastal defence near North Promenade.

Plaques recording visits by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh following the 1953 floods.

He came to Mablethorpe immediately following the floods and subsequently returned in 1983 and 2003 to join in the 30th and 50th anniversary memorials. 

DB 29 June 2019 

Built to monitor traffic on the River Steeping and prevent smuggling.

Commercial traffic ceased in 1914 when the river became silted up.

Disbanded and sold by auction in 1926.

http://coastguardassociation.org.uk/2015/06/gibraltar-point-coastguard-1908/

The very top section of the tower was added during the Second World War as a lookout point. 

Next to the new Visitor Centre completed in 2016 - image shows some of the ongoing building works.

DB 18 September 2015

View from the end of Skegness pier towards a jack-up barge supporting the Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_and_Inner_Dowsing_Wind_Farms 

DB 30 October 2019

Stated on the associated plaque :-

"This pillar is all that remains of the original sea defences and promenade (built in the 1880's at a cost of £350) which were destroyed in East Coast floods of January 31st 1953" 

DB 29 March 2019