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Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire
Irthlingborough photos
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Irthlingborough maps
Historic maps of Irthlingborough and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Irthlingborough maps
Historic map of Irthlingborough
Illustrated Victorian map of Northamptonshire
Historic Map of any Irthlingborough postcode
Irthlingborough books
Displaying 3 of 8 books about Irthlingborough and the local area. View all Irthlingborough books
Northampton Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Kettering Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
Northamptonshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
7 Irthlingborough photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Irthlingborough
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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
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
Northamptonshire memories
We have just bought a cottage here in North End and I am immersing myself in the wonderful history of the place. It looks nearly the same as it did all those years ago. Does anyone know when these cottages were built? I am like a sponge wanting to soak up as much information as I can. I love my home... [more]
Shared on 01 January 2010
My wife Gail and I had our 2nd son born at the 'Duke', we were licencees for about 3 years till around the end of 1980. We met some great people and have good memories. I wonder what happened to 'Johnny and the Jailbirds' ... and would love to know what happened to Maurice Middleton.
chrispresto23@hotmail.com we now live in Aussie..
Shared on 17 January 2009
My aunt and uncle used to run the Duke of Wellington Public house, Hazel (nee Austin from Irthlingborough) and Bill Forscutt, previously they ran the Bell in Little Addington for a few years. Bill died some years ago but in 2007 Hazel is still going strong.
Shared on 01 November 2007
This photograph shows the Raunds County Infants School - the County Modern School was behind the Infants school and the two were joined by some flat-roofed shelters.
I started at the County Infants school on my 4th birthday in 1948 and my father started work there in the same year as the caretaker of both the Infants and the County... [more]
Shared on 19 May 2009
E Coles, Ladies' Outfitter, 37 Brook Street, Raunds
The house on the left is the one in which I was born. It had a shop underneath and a living/dining area on the ground floor and bedrooms and a bathroom and living room upstairs. The living room provided an excellent vantage point to view all the proceedings at the Methodist Chapel opposite. Never a wedding was missed and Mum would... [more]
Shared on 15 September 2008
I was the Chief Projectionist at the Lyric from approx 1957 until 1963 when I was appointed as Co Chief/Lighting Engineer at the new ABC Blackpool. The Manager at the Lyric was Mr Ron Crabb and when he moved to another ABC Cinema, Mr Ken Porter took his place. Ron Crabb and myself were featured on an edition of... [more]
Shared on 14 October 2009
Extracts From Irthlingborough & Northamptonshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Irthlingborough, inspired by Frith photos.
Northamptonshire Living Memories
This is not one of Northamptonshire's most attractive boot and shoe towns - and what old buildings remain are now isolated by new buildings, some visible in this view. The house on the right was rebuilt in the 1970s and others have been rendered, with few original windows surviving. The Victorian chapel on the right is now an auction saleroom.
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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Northamptonshire Living Memories
This view, looking into the High Street from the market square, is distinguished by the crocketted and slender medieval Market Cross - a reminder of Irthlingborough's 11th-century market town origins. The National Provincial Bank on the right is now the post office, while the shops on the left have since been demolished to make way for a car park.
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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Northamptonshire Living Memories
Another view of the Market Cross, this time looking north, shows its knobbly crockets to their best advantage. The cross at the top of the shaft was lost many years before. The Bull Hotel, rebuilt in the 1930s, is a somewhat pedestrian and incongruous mock-Tudor effort, while the house on the left is now a bistro.
This is an extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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