Story Tellers: Boston

THE STORY TELLERS IS AN ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND-FUNDED PROJECT CELEBRATING SOUTH AND EAST LINCOLNSHIRE’S HERITAGE THROUGH CULTURAL ACTIVITY. 

We are proud to be supporting the excellent work of the Story Tellers’ activities. Below are links to videos and articles produced by The Young Journalist Academy. 

Boston High School VE Day Special

Story Tellers supported Boston High School’s Young Journalist Academy team inited-run VE Day producing a lim print newspaper.

Scroll through this page to listen to interviews, hear poems featured in the 1940s BHS journals read by young journalists, and watch interviews and features. Enjoy!

Mr Fulbrook, Headteacher, speaks with YJA before the VE Day events
Lucy, Legacy Lead, speaks to YJA
Boston High School: Canteen Staff
YJA interviews Miss Carter, History Teacher
YJA interviews Miss Crossley
Alicia reads: Mouth Watering Memories, 1941
Poem: Spring, 1942
Seashore Poem
D-Day Poem: July 1944
Poem: Salvage
YJA’s Scarlett walks the school grounds and imagines life during WWII
Scarlett reads an important announcement from the 1940s BHS Newsletter
Poem: The Pilot