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Brian Ostler

My name is Brian Ostler and I come from Boston, Lincolnshire. I left school at fourteen and went to work on a small mixed farm just the other side of Skegness of about sixty acres, with a bit of arable and about a dozen milk cows. There was only myself and the boss on the farm at that time. It is amazing to me how things have changed in as much as a lot that was done by hand has been taken over by machinery such as ditching, hedging and that sort of thing. In the winter you were fully employed, for instance seeing to the drainage. All the land drains were put in by hand. Read more....

David Ostler

Hello, I am David Ostler. I have always lived in Lincolnshire, born and bred. My parents live in the village of Woolsthorpe. I was born in a place called Old Leake, which is not far from Boston, in 1963. I lived around the Boston area for my younger childhood. Then we moved nearer this side of Lincolnshire, not far from Stamford. Then we went across to Old Somerby and moved into the village where my parents still live in 1980. We moved around a bit but always in Lincolnshire. Read more....

Jane Ostler

I am Jane Ostler and I live on Woolsthorpe Road. My husband and I moved here in 1980. Both of us are Lincolnshire born and bred and rather happy about that. I am from Skegness and my husband is from Boston. I lived at the north end of Skegness but we moved to the south end, near the golf course, the posh part after my mother died. Read more....