NOSTALGIA: Work continues on Boston’s ‘congestion-breaking’ bridge in 1965

The development was considered to be crucial in bringing to an end the town’s traffic woes.

It was described in the Standard earlier that year as ‘the vitally-important, congestion-breaking bridge’.

The bridge, which opened in 1966, was the first phase of the so-called ‘inner relief road’. The second phase was the widening of Bargate Bridge, completed seven years later in 1973.

The final phase was the construction of the relief road itself; dubbed John Adams Way, it opened in 1978.

In the background of the main picture, we see The Odeon (later, the Haven Cinema).

Also on show is the back of the derelict ‘Ingelow House’.

The Standard described it as a ‘sore thumb’, saying it was ‘apparently unused save to support an advertisement hoarding for beer’.

Boston Corporation had wanted to demolish the house to provide a roundabout at the approach to Haven Bridge, but the Royal Fine Art Commission intervened. Corporation plans were changed to incorporate traffic lights instead.