REV. TEDDY BOSTON - RECTOR & VICAR OF CADEBY & SHENTON FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
STEAM RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST AND AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS.
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Son of Bertram Llewellyn Boston (a Company Director) and Violet Caroline Phoebe Round, who were married on the 14th July 1909 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rev. Boston was educated at Gresham's School (then a boys boarding school), Holt in Norfolk and Jesus College, Cambridge, before training for the ministry at Lincoln Theological College.
Rev. Boston married widow, Jean Audrey Lees (known as Audrey) on the 11th May 1974 at All Saints Church, Cadeby in Leicestershire.
A STEAM AGE WEDDING - Coventry Evening Telegraph - 13th May 1974
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A couple on minor hitches failed to dampen the spectacular wedding of Rev. Teddy Boston, the parson with a passion for steam engines. Villagers of Cadeby, Leicestershire, and steam enthusiasts turned out in force on Saturday to see the vicar married to Mrs. Audrey Lees, widow, of Market Bosworth.
The bride arrived at Cadeby Parish Church in a 1920 showman's caravan hauled by a freshly painted 16 ton steam tractor. The hitches came after the service. The couple had planned to complete two circuits of the light railway track around the church grounds for the benefit of photographers, but this was interrupted by a derailment of their coach. Then when the bride and groom left for the celebrations in a 1914 British Railway horse dray, pulled by a 1903 steam roller and a 54 year old steam engine, one of the pulling engines became uncoupled.
Despite the problems, the reception, in the form of a steam rally, soon got under way and was enjoyed by more than 500 hundred people.
Dr. Ronald Williams, Bishop of Leicester, had performed the service which was relayed to the church grounds for the benefit of villagers.
Rev. Boston's bride is secretary of the Market Bosworth traction steam rally and, until recently , worked at the National Westminster Bank in Hinckley. The couple travelled to Gloucestershire to start their honeymoon and will spend the second week on a boat touring Midlands canals.
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THE CADEBY LIGHT RAILWAY - From Wikipedia
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In the words of Peter Scott, "The story of the Cadeby Light Railway is really the story of one man - 'Teddy' Boston."
In May 1962, Rev. Boston bought a Bagnall saddle tank locomotive number 2090, named 'Pixie', and set about building a light railway in the grounds of the Rectory at Cadeby. U-shaped, with a total length of 110 yards, the line opened on the 7th April 1963 and carried its first passengers a month later.
In 1967, Boston bought from Lilleshall Hall another narrow gauge locomotive, number 1695, which was an engine he had seen working a light railway at Lilleshall when he was young. After standing idle for twenty-seven years, it had been reported as 'rediscovered' in the Narrow Gauge News and was moved to Cadeby on the 6th May 1967. There, 1695 was renamed 'The Terror', in reference to Psalm 91, "The Terror that walketh in darkness", as the engine was so hard to start that it could be dark before it was going.
Situated in the grounds at Cadeby was a large wooden shed which housed a very extensive OO gauge model railway depicting the pre-war Great Western Railway. It also contained a separate, smaller narrow gauge layout, a 4 mm scale, 12 mm gauge line based on the Isle of Man Railway. Latterly Boston also owned a canal narrowboat which had an N gauge model railway on board, narrow boats being an interest of his wife, Audrey.[3]
He was a close friend of the Rev. W. V. Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, a kindred spirit with whom he shared many railway holidays. In "Small Railway Engines" (1967), Awdry relies on a trip the two made together to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, and they appear in the book as 'the Fat Clergyman' (Boston) and 'the Thin Clergyman' (Awdry).
Of his visits to Cadeby, Awdry wrote "We would go on shopping expeditions to Market Bosworth, using a steam-roller or traction-engine by way of transport, parking, as a matter of course, in the town centre."
Boston liked to attend steam rallies, but found transporting heavy equipment expensive, and in 1964 he founded a new annual 'Market Bosworth Steam Rally'. He wrote "The idea then sprang to mind that if we could not get to a rally, why could a rally not come to us? Therefore in 1963 the Market Bosworth Steam Engine Rally was conceived and born, becoming a regular two-day annual event held at Cadeby in August. This has proved a great success and also a considerable help with parish funds."
Boston has been described as "a short, round, jolly man, much given to Anglo-Saxon language in times of stress, such as a close run race with his traction engine Fiery Elias". In his foreword to Font to Footplate, W. V. Awdry wrote: "In thinking of our Teddy it is important to realise that despite the impression that this book may seem to give, he was a Parish Priest first and a steam enthusiast second. He never forced religion on anyone; but his sincere faith and devotion was there for all to see, coupled with his impish sense of humour."
Grass grew in the gutters of the Rectory, which was full of Boston's railway collections. The walls were covered with shelves bearing model railway locomotives and rolling stock. In every room, the collection overflowed onto the floor, and it continued up the stairs, including a comprehensive collection of railway films on celluloid.
When Boston died, he left a widow, Audrey, who was still living in 2015. She shared her husband's enthusiasm for steam and for many years continued to co-organize the Market Bosworth Steam Rally.
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After being ill for several weeks, Rev. Boston died aged 61.
Centre photo - Rev. and Mrs. Boston leaving the church on their wedding day under an archway of firemen's shovels.
Bottom photo - A plaque in All Saints Church, Cadeby, in remembrance of Rev. and Mrs. Boston.
STEAM RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST AND AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS.
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Son of Bertram Llewellyn Boston (a Company Director) and Violet Caroline Phoebe Round, who were married on the 14th July 1909 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rev. Boston was educated at Gresham's School (then a boys boarding school), Holt in Norfolk and Jesus College, Cambridge, before training for the ministry at Lincoln Theological College.
Rev. Boston married widow, Jean Audrey Lees (known as Audrey) on the 11th May 1974 at All Saints Church, Cadeby in Leicestershire.
A STEAM AGE WEDDING - Coventry Evening Telegraph - 13th May 1974
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A couple on minor hitches failed to dampen the spectacular wedding of Rev. Teddy Boston, the parson with a passion for steam engines. Villagers of Cadeby, Leicestershire, and steam enthusiasts turned out in force on Saturday to see the vicar married to Mrs. Audrey Lees, widow, of Market Bosworth.
The bride arrived at Cadeby Parish Church in a 1920 showman's caravan hauled by a freshly painted 16 ton steam tractor. The hitches came after the service. The couple had planned to complete two circuits of the light railway track around the church grounds for the benefit of photographers, but this was interrupted by a derailment of their coach. Then when the bride and groom left for the celebrations in a 1914 British Railway horse dray, pulled by a 1903 steam roller and a 54 year old steam engine, one of the pulling engines became uncoupled.
Despite the problems, the reception, in the form of a steam rally, soon got under way and was enjoyed by more than 500 hundred people.
Dr. Ronald Williams, Bishop of Leicester, had performed the service which was relayed to the church grounds for the benefit of villagers.
Rev. Boston's bride is secretary of the Market Bosworth traction steam rally and, until recently , worked at the National Westminster Bank in Hinckley. The couple travelled to Gloucestershire to start their honeymoon and will spend the second week on a boat touring Midlands canals.
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THE CADEBY LIGHT RAILWAY - From Wikipedia
**********************************************
In the words of Peter Scott, "The story of the Cadeby Light Railway is really the story of one man - 'Teddy' Boston."
In May 1962, Rev. Boston bought a Bagnall saddle tank locomotive number 2090, named 'Pixie', and set about building a light railway in the grounds of the Rectory at Cadeby. U-shaped, with a total length of 110 yards, the line opened on the 7th April 1963 and carried its first passengers a month later.
In 1967, Boston bought from Lilleshall Hall another narrow gauge locomotive, number 1695, which was an engine he had seen working a light railway at Lilleshall when he was young. After standing idle for twenty-seven years, it had been reported as 'rediscovered' in the Narrow Gauge News and was moved to Cadeby on the 6th May 1967. There, 1695 was renamed 'The Terror', in reference to Psalm 91, "The Terror that walketh in darkness", as the engine was so hard to start that it could be dark before it was going.
Situated in the grounds at Cadeby was a large wooden shed which housed a very extensive OO gauge model railway depicting the pre-war Great Western Railway. It also contained a separate, smaller narrow gauge layout, a 4 mm scale, 12 mm gauge line based on the Isle of Man Railway. Latterly Boston also owned a canal narrowboat which had an N gauge model railway on board, narrow boats being an interest of his wife, Audrey.[3]
He was a close friend of the Rev. W. V. Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, a kindred spirit with whom he shared many railway holidays. In "Small Railway Engines" (1967), Awdry relies on a trip the two made together to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, and they appear in the book as 'the Fat Clergyman' (Boston) and 'the Thin Clergyman' (Awdry).
Of his visits to Cadeby, Awdry wrote "We would go on shopping expeditions to Market Bosworth, using a steam-roller or traction-engine by way of transport, parking, as a matter of course, in the town centre."
Boston liked to attend steam rallies, but found transporting heavy equipment expensive, and in 1964 he founded a new annual 'Market Bosworth Steam Rally'. He wrote "The idea then sprang to mind that if we could not get to a rally, why could a rally not come to us? Therefore in 1963 the Market Bosworth Steam Engine Rally was conceived and born, becoming a regular two-day annual event held at Cadeby in August. This has proved a great success and also a considerable help with parish funds."
Boston has been described as "a short, round, jolly man, much given to Anglo-Saxon language in times of stress, such as a close run race with his traction engine Fiery Elias". In his foreword to Font to Footplate, W. V. Awdry wrote: "In thinking of our Teddy it is important to realise that despite the impression that this book may seem to give, he was a Parish Priest first and a steam enthusiast second. He never forced religion on anyone; but his sincere faith and devotion was there for all to see, coupled with his impish sense of humour."
Grass grew in the gutters of the Rectory, which was full of Boston's railway collections. The walls were covered with shelves bearing model railway locomotives and rolling stock. In every room, the collection overflowed onto the floor, and it continued up the stairs, including a comprehensive collection of railway films on celluloid.
When Boston died, he left a widow, Audrey, who was still living in 2015. She shared her husband's enthusiasm for steam and for many years continued to co-organize the Market Bosworth Steam Rally.
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After being ill for several weeks, Rev. Boston died aged 61.
Centre photo - Rev. and Mrs. Boston leaving the church on their wedding day under an archway of firemen's shovels.
Bottom photo - A plaque in All Saints Church, Cadeby, in remembrance of Rev. and Mrs. Boston.
REV. TEDDY BOSTON - RECTOR & VICAR OF CADEBY & SHENTON FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
STEAM RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST AND AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS.
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Son of Bertram Llewellyn Boston (a Company Director) and Violet Caroline Phoebe Round, who were married on the 14th July 1909 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rev. Boston was educated at Gresham's School (then a boys boarding school), Holt in Norfolk and Jesus College, Cambridge, before training for the ministry at Lincoln Theological College.
Rev. Boston married widow, Jean Audrey Lees (known as Audrey) on the 11th May 1974 at All Saints Church, Cadeby in Leicestershire.
A STEAM AGE WEDDING - Coventry Evening Telegraph - 13th May 1974
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A couple on minor hitches failed to dampen the spectacular wedding of Rev. Teddy Boston, the parson with a passion for steam engines. Villagers of Cadeby, Leicestershire, and steam enthusiasts turned out in force on Saturday to see the vicar married to Mrs. Audrey Lees, widow, of Market Bosworth.
The bride arrived at Cadeby Parish Church in a 1920 showman's caravan hauled by a freshly painted 16 ton steam tractor. The hitches came after the service. The couple had planned to complete two circuits of the light railway track around the church grounds for the benefit of photographers, but this was interrupted by a derailment of their coach. Then when the bride and groom left for the celebrations in a 1914 British Railway horse dray, pulled by a 1903 steam roller and a 54 year old steam engine, one of the pulling engines became uncoupled.
Despite the problems, the reception, in the form of a steam rally, soon got under way and was enjoyed by more than 500 hundred people.
Dr. Ronald Williams, Bishop of Leicester, had performed the service which was relayed to the church grounds for the benefit of villagers.
Rev. Boston's bride is secretary of the Market Bosworth traction steam rally and, until recently , worked at the National Westminster Bank in Hinckley. The couple travelled to Gloucestershire to start their honeymoon and will spend the second week on a boat touring Midlands canals.
*********************************************************************
THE CADEBY LIGHT RAILWAY - From Wikipedia
**********************************************
In the words of Peter Scott, "The story of the Cadeby Light Railway is really the story of one man - 'Teddy' Boston."
In May 1962, Rev. Boston bought a Bagnall saddle tank locomotive number 2090, named 'Pixie', and set about building a light railway in the grounds of the Rectory at Cadeby. U-shaped, with a total length of 110 yards, the line opened on the 7th April 1963 and carried its first passengers a month later.
In 1967, Boston bought from Lilleshall Hall another narrow gauge locomotive, number 1695, which was an engine he had seen working a light railway at Lilleshall when he was young. After standing idle for twenty-seven years, it had been reported as 'rediscovered' in the Narrow Gauge News and was moved to Cadeby on the 6th May 1967. There, 1695 was renamed 'The Terror', in reference to Psalm 91, "The Terror that walketh in darkness", as the engine was so hard to start that it could be dark before it was going.
Situated in the grounds at Cadeby was a large wooden shed which housed a very extensive OO gauge model railway depicting the pre-war Great Western Railway. It also contained a separate, smaller narrow gauge layout, a 4 mm scale, 12 mm gauge line based on the Isle of Man Railway. Latterly Boston also owned a canal narrowboat which had an N gauge model railway on board, narrow boats being an interest of his wife, Audrey.[3]
He was a close friend of the Rev. W. V. Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, a kindred spirit with whom he shared many railway holidays. In "Small Railway Engines" (1967), Awdry relies on a trip the two made together to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, and they appear in the book as 'the Fat Clergyman' (Boston) and 'the Thin Clergyman' (Awdry).
Of his visits to Cadeby, Awdry wrote "We would go on shopping expeditions to Market Bosworth, using a steam-roller or traction-engine by way of transport, parking, as a matter of course, in the town centre."
Boston liked to attend steam rallies, but found transporting heavy equipment expensive, and in 1964 he founded a new annual 'Market Bosworth Steam Rally'. He wrote "The idea then sprang to mind that if we could not get to a rally, why could a rally not come to us? Therefore in 1963 the Market Bosworth Steam Engine Rally was conceived and born, becoming a regular two-day annual event held at Cadeby in August. This has proved a great success and also a considerable help with parish funds."
Boston has been described as "a short, round, jolly man, much given to Anglo-Saxon language in times of stress, such as a close run race with his traction engine Fiery Elias". In his foreword to Font to Footplate, W. V. Awdry wrote: "In thinking of our Teddy it is important to realise that despite the impression that this book may seem to give, he was a Parish Priest first and a steam enthusiast second. He never forced religion on anyone; but his sincere faith and devotion was there for all to see, coupled with his impish sense of humour."
Grass grew in the gutters of the Rectory, which was full of Boston's railway collections. The walls were covered with shelves bearing model railway locomotives and rolling stock. In every room, the collection overflowed onto the floor, and it continued up the stairs, including a comprehensive collection of railway films on celluloid.
When Boston died, he left a widow, Audrey, who was still living in 2015. She shared her husband's enthusiasm for steam and for many years continued to co-organize the Market Bosworth Steam Rally.
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After being ill for several weeks, Rev. Boston died aged 61.
Centre photo - Rev. and Mrs. Boston leaving the church on their wedding day under an archway of firemen's shovels.
Bottom photo - A plaque in All Saints Church, Cadeby, in remembrance of Rev. and Mrs. Boston.
STEAM RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST AND AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS.
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Son of Bertram Llewellyn Boston (a Company Director) and Violet Caroline Phoebe Round, who were married on the 14th July 1909 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Rev. Boston was educated at Gresham's School (then a boys boarding school), Holt in Norfolk and Jesus College, Cambridge, before training for the ministry at Lincoln Theological College.
Rev. Boston married widow, Jean Audrey Lees (known as Audrey) on the 11th May 1974 at All Saints Church, Cadeby in Leicestershire.
A STEAM AGE WEDDING - Coventry Evening Telegraph - 13th May 1974
*********************************************************************
A couple on minor hitches failed to dampen the spectacular wedding of Rev. Teddy Boston, the parson with a passion for steam engines. Villagers of Cadeby, Leicestershire, and steam enthusiasts turned out in force on Saturday to see the vicar married to Mrs. Audrey Lees, widow, of Market Bosworth.
The bride arrived at Cadeby Parish Church in a 1920 showman's caravan hauled by a freshly painted 16 ton steam tractor. The hitches came after the service. The couple had planned to complete two circuits of the light railway track around the church grounds for the benefit of photographers, but this was interrupted by a derailment of their coach. Then when the bride and groom left for the celebrations in a 1914 British Railway horse dray, pulled by a 1903 steam roller and a 54 year old steam engine, one of the pulling engines became uncoupled.
Despite the problems, the reception, in the form of a steam rally, soon got under way and was enjoyed by more than 500 hundred people.
Dr. Ronald Williams, Bishop of Leicester, had performed the service which was relayed to the church grounds for the benefit of villagers.
Rev. Boston's bride is secretary of the Market Bosworth traction steam rally and, until recently , worked at the National Westminster Bank in Hinckley. The couple travelled to Gloucestershire to start their honeymoon and will spend the second week on a boat touring Midlands canals.
*********************************************************************
THE CADEBY LIGHT RAILWAY - From Wikipedia
**********************************************
In the words of Peter Scott, "The story of the Cadeby Light Railway is really the story of one man - 'Teddy' Boston."
In May 1962, Rev. Boston bought a Bagnall saddle tank locomotive number 2090, named 'Pixie', and set about building a light railway in the grounds of the Rectory at Cadeby. U-shaped, with a total length of 110 yards, the line opened on the 7th April 1963 and carried its first passengers a month later.
In 1967, Boston bought from Lilleshall Hall another narrow gauge locomotive, number 1695, which was an engine he had seen working a light railway at Lilleshall when he was young. After standing idle for twenty-seven years, it had been reported as 'rediscovered' in the Narrow Gauge News and was moved to Cadeby on the 6th May 1967. There, 1695 was renamed 'The Terror', in reference to Psalm 91, "The Terror that walketh in darkness", as the engine was so hard to start that it could be dark before it was going.
Situated in the grounds at Cadeby was a large wooden shed which housed a very extensive OO gauge model railway depicting the pre-war Great Western Railway. It also contained a separate, smaller narrow gauge layout, a 4 mm scale, 12 mm gauge line based on the Isle of Man Railway. Latterly Boston also owned a canal narrowboat which had an N gauge model railway on board, narrow boats being an interest of his wife, Audrey.[3]
He was a close friend of the Rev. W. V. Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, a kindred spirit with whom he shared many railway holidays. In "Small Railway Engines" (1967), Awdry relies on a trip the two made together to the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, and they appear in the book as 'the Fat Clergyman' (Boston) and 'the Thin Clergyman' (Awdry).
Of his visits to Cadeby, Awdry wrote "We would go on shopping expeditions to Market Bosworth, using a steam-roller or traction-engine by way of transport, parking, as a matter of course, in the town centre."
Boston liked to attend steam rallies, but found transporting heavy equipment expensive, and in 1964 he founded a new annual 'Market Bosworth Steam Rally'. He wrote "The idea then sprang to mind that if we could not get to a rally, why could a rally not come to us? Therefore in 1963 the Market Bosworth Steam Engine Rally was conceived and born, becoming a regular two-day annual event held at Cadeby in August. This has proved a great success and also a considerable help with parish funds."
Boston has been described as "a short, round, jolly man, much given to Anglo-Saxon language in times of stress, such as a close run race with his traction engine Fiery Elias". In his foreword to Font to Footplate, W. V. Awdry wrote: "In thinking of our Teddy it is important to realise that despite the impression that this book may seem to give, he was a Parish Priest first and a steam enthusiast second. He never forced religion on anyone; but his sincere faith and devotion was there for all to see, coupled with his impish sense of humour."
Grass grew in the gutters of the Rectory, which was full of Boston's railway collections. The walls were covered with shelves bearing model railway locomotives and rolling stock. In every room, the collection overflowed onto the floor, and it continued up the stairs, including a comprehensive collection of railway films on celluloid.
When Boston died, he left a widow, Audrey, who was still living in 2015. She shared her husband's enthusiasm for steam and for many years continued to co-organize the Market Bosworth Steam Rally.
***************************************************
After being ill for several weeks, Rev. Boston died aged 61.
Centre photo - Rev. and Mrs. Boston leaving the church on their wedding day under an archway of firemen's shovels.
Bottom photo - A plaque in All Saints Church, Cadeby, in remembrance of Rev. and Mrs. Boston.
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