Time for rethink on tourist info

We're not even going to shed crocodile tears at the news that the big glass box of art and artifacts has closed.
The Haven was a disaster from the outset, and we note that even the handful of protesters who shuffled forward when its demise was first mooted have remained silent now that the axe has fallen.
The big glass box is now neither half full nor half empty - it's now only a window of opportunity for ... a window cleaner ... that's if anyone decides to bother.
The Haven staged disappointing exhibition after disappointing exhibition, and only once in a blue moon came up with relevant topics celebrating localness and the art of the town.
Most of the time it appeared to be little more than a creche where the town's largely single mothers could dump their offspring for a cheap day of doing pointless things with paint, paper, glue and string.
The real victim of the Haven closure is yet again the hapless Tourist Information Centre which has changed location so often that the staff must feel like tourists themselves.
It is now relocated to the Guildhall, which is not a good place for it at all.
When visitors come to town they should not be made to troop to the outskirts of the centre to find out what that town has to offer.
We've come up with the obvious answer more than once before, and that answer is to locate the centre inside Boston Stump.
It's taken 700 years, but at last the Borough Council seems to be showing the sort of interest in Boston Stump that it should have done for a long time.
The council recently tried to claim that the kind heartedness and generosity of the BBI was behind a grant of £141,000 for repairs to the chancel, but that was the usual guff, as the council has a legal duty to fund these repairs.
But among the regeneration projects for the town listed recently was a new café and shop refurbishment for the church, costing around £100,000, and if this goes ahead it is a clear and obvious setting in which to house a Tourist Information centre.
St Botolph's Church is the heart of Boston, and the place that everyone who visits the town goes to see.
Where better, then, than to showcase the other attractions that the town and the area has to offer?
And any charges paid in rent would help the church budget and put to the best possible use.

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