welcome to another video
this week we're climbing stairs
this is the view from
the top of 'the Stump' or St. Botolph's Church in Boston
it's a long way down!
Here we can see the visitor moorings - The Naughty Lass is moored just beyond that
lock, quite close to the train station and Asdas... so...
But my first goal with Boston
is not to visit a supermarket
it is to find out how many links have survived
between this British town and the better-known
American city
So just walking down the 365 steps now to to get back down from the tower
Which is no easy task you can see inside the church it's absolutely
amazing and this is not a cathedral Abbey I tried to look into why but so
the locals just told me it was because Lincoln didn't want it to be a cathedral
but this is where the Massachusetts Bay Colonists originated from led by this man
- Reverend John cotton he was a really popular guy not just with seagulls
on top of his head
but with locals who flocked from all around to hear his
sermons and followed him all the way across to America
And I'm afraid that is all
I could find that links Boston in the UK to Boston in America they may be a lot
more to it but it just doesn't seem to be on display there was this Masonic
Hall that is based on a Nubian temple - the original of which is now in the
New York Metropolitan Museum
here's an original painting to
show you what it looks like
Back in more recent times
you can't talk about Boston without mentioning Brexit because 75% of people
here voted to leave the EU something that I think was quite upsetting for
the huge migrant population of Polish Lithuanian Romanian workers who have set
up shops they've got kids at school here that you know it's not it's not about
money getting sent back to Europe it's all being spent here as well so the
economy is actually boosted quite a lot
another thing that's quite upsetting for the locals I think is there's so many
nice buildings in Boston but no-one's really doing anything with them you know
you look on the outside looks lovely peer through the windows and it's just an
empty room real ly really sad I don't know what it is
a lack of money perhaps in the area?
There's certainly more of a market for Poundland stores
than there is for these lovely old buildings anyway I'm gonna stop my
middle-class whinging and let you enjoy the sounds and sights of Boston
Right enough of all that - it's time for 🎵Puuub of the Weeeek🎵
First off this pub I want to
give a little bit of love because they belong to Batemans brewery
where they whack the prices up on the barrels if you're doing well!!
I've picked this pub because it's one to watch I think - on the jukebox you've got
lots of alternative music it's gonna become a bit more of a live venue it's
what Boston needs it also really needs more people like Rihanne here - she was
the nicest person I met in the town but unfortunately she works in a different
pub... but fortunately that pub is Pub of the Week!
So this is inside the pub - they've
got pool table there, you've got the jukebox
pretty bangin!
Except when you have a power cut!
This actually happened and just listen now
to some of the conversatons
This is a pub... in a powercut!
Lady - "Who's got the radio on their phone?"
"We'll have to go back to listening to the radio"
Man - "Ey! Put 10p in the meter come on!"
The power cut just seemed to happen on one side of the street
because the other side was fine but yeah it was just out for
an hour or so
it was just nice to see a bit of an old-fashioned feel to a pub really
this is how it would have been back in the old days!
well... except we're all on our phones checking the scores!
Aside from the atmosphere what
really makes this pub of the week is that it it really does cater for
everyone so you've got you've got the pool table you've got a jukebox you've
got an amazing selection of beers and the pub patrons themselves all really nice
people so real good mix so I definitely recommend this pub to anyone visiting
Walking pace back to the boat here through Boston's back streets we should
in a minute come up to where the bridge is that crosses the lock between the
River Witham and the estuary that feeds on towards the wash and I know a lot of
people will ask me - hello!
did I try to cross the wash and try and get onto some
of the other waterways because if you look on the map here
the blue line here
goes to the actual wash and you're gonna be trying to get across there all the
way over to here or here so that's Wisbech or King's Lynn and I spoke to a
guide and the guide told me that
in winter it's really quite difficult
because a) the fact that my narrow boat doesn't have the
navigation lights on the sides now like green and red lights it's supposed
to have for if you wanna travel at night and because the days are so short
in the winter and the journey is so long so it's about I think it's about 10
hours the whole trip with the break in between which allows you to
have a lovely little stop on a beach if you make good enough progress
and knowing my boat I'd be lagging behind so I don't think I would have
enjoyed it and the guy was saying "no, I really want people to enjoy it!"
and also there's a cost involved so this guide I've talked to - Darryl
(I'll leave his number in the description below if you want to call him
and book a pilot) so basically he would come out with you in his boat take
you across and the cost that he quoted me was around £230
for one boat and then a little bit extra for two but you know you'd
save with more boats involved up to about four and then you start you know
he has to hire another guy to help out so definitely worth doing it with other
people and also even if I wanted to go
Do you know what happened while I was in Boston?!
That's right the beast from the east hit it's like a siberian storm a
snow storm that came over and made it pretty unpleasant but I was quite
relieved really because I didn't really want to go out into the wash on my own
in winter much rather wait for summer and really enjoy the journey rather than
just doing it just so I could tick it off my list
Here are just a few moorings
by the lock
but they're not for any any sort of long-term use just for
the using the lock but the facilities point is just by this lock which is a
great, they've got great showers and great toilets and
everything but it's a little bit far away from the actual moorings which are
another five minutes walk away
and here they are
These moorings here are one of the best in the country I've seen because they're
floating moorings there you know there's lots of space there there's water points
there all everything you need and it's just really really nice and quiet have a
listen to this
and good quality moorings aren't complete unless you've got a couple of dogs
running around! And these two kept meeting me every day when I came back to the boat
And yeah just generally lovely people here as well so yeah all good
right so that was Boston and this
is the CRANK IT CREW!
The first name I need to
add to my log book is Matthew wicks Matt thank you so much for supporting the
vlog very much appreciate it and then I've got a welcome Brian Jones to the crew
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Brian you're the last on
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The first on this new page is Kitty Oskin - thank you so much Kitty and also thank you for
donating on the recent charity walk I did where we raised £780 and that
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members and supporters of the vlog you've all been amazingly generous on
that one so thank you once again next got Dimitrios Theologitis thanks so
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and now moving on to producers of the vlog this is the next level up
I'm very happy to welcome once more
George Blankinship! George thank you so much for stepping up to the producer
level and all your previous support the vlog it's much much appreciated
and now we need to turn back to this the previous page and give a massive shout out to
Lotus Petal aka Chris - thank you so much for stepping up to producer level it's
absolutely amazing I really appreciate it cheers dude!
This next one's very very
special because this young lady's birthday it's round about this time I
hope I haven't missed it by too far
your lovely husband has set this up for you
so basically Sophie Rothero you are now crank it crew producer and I
suppose Tommy is as well
congratulations the pair of you! I hope you enjoy your newfound status?!
and that's it for the shout outs of the patreon crew thanks so much for
supporting me
Anyway
that's Boston
the rest of the riv... the rhythm with... to the weatherm... I can't even say it!!!
The rest of the River
Witham
is coming up in the next video - here's a few shots of what you can
expect
Bye!