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Finedon, Northamptonshire
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Historic maps of Finedon and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Finedon maps
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Finedon books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Finedon and the local area. View all Finedon books
Northamptonshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Northamptonshire Living Memories
Paperback
£14
Corby Living Memories
Paperback
£13
10 Finedon photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Finedon
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This scene in 2008 looks almost exactly the same as it did in 1969. Further down (out of sight of this picture) many changes have taken place. George Burton's papershop is now a pizza parlour (didn't even know what a pizza was in the early 60s!). Duncan's Chemist shop (famously made of wood) has been demolished, oh how as a youngster... [more]
Shared on 12 March 2008
The parade of shops situated on the right was once the site of a large house called The Rookery, we lived at the Rookery from 1956 -1962. This adjoined the old Procea Products factory where my father worked for many years as a lorry driver/mechanic. Procea was famous for making slimming bread. The Rookery was owned by Procea and split into... [more]
Shared on 30 October 2007
We bought our house in 1968, it is almost opposite the Red Lion. The landlord at the time was Mr. Fred Nobles who was my wife's uncle, and we believe he had been landlord from about 1955. The pub still had an orchard at that time with Gents toilets "up the yard". One of the most talked about clients was the... [more]
Shared on 31 August 2008
I was born in the above pub in 1940. My grandmother Mary Jane Abbot used to run it and there was an old skittle alley in the bar. I was born in the room above it. The pub used to have an old rose garden, an orchard and a small car park, a pet pig [Sally] and I used to help... [more]
Shared on 24 March 2008
Extracts From Finedon & Northamptonshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Finedon, inspired by Frith photos.
Northamptonshire Living Memories
The older part of the village is full of houses and cottages built by the Victorian lord of the manor, William Mackworth-Dolben. None are more fanciful than The Bell Inn on Bell Hill. It was rebuilt, transforming an earlier, possibly 17th-century building, in 1872 - and apparently originates from 1042 as the Tingdene Hostelrie, a monastic hospice for travellers.
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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Northamptonshire Living Memories
Finedon has had a market charter since at least 1294 and the older part of the town, pictured here, lies at the west end. It became yet another of Northamptonshire's boot and shoe manufacturing towns in the later 19th century and was greatly enlarged, with streets of Victorian terrace housing. This view includes the medieval chancel of the superb parish church,... [more]
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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Northamptonshire Photographic Memories
Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons. On the road to Thrapston is a round tower built by General Arbuthnot, a friend of the Duke of Wellington, to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Photographic Memories.
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