Irthlingborough
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Map of Northamptonshire
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Irthlingborough books (14 available)
Daventry Living Memories
Hardback
Daventry Living Memories
Paperback
Wellingborough Living Memories
Paperback
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Irthlingborough memories
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The Rookery
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 3 houses, (we lived in the centre house), Jack Thomsons (manager at Procea) had some of the rooms and the Brailsford (dentist) family had the house closest to the factory. Sadly The Rookery was pulled down in the mid-60's. The house was grand with large windows and very high ceilings. Today The Rookery would have been a listed building and ...read more here
Contributed by Mick Austin
The Bull
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 I drooled as I looked in his shop window at those wonderful blue and white striped Dinky toy boxes containing every car and lorry in miniture' Even when we were ill it usually meant a dollop of Lucozade (lovely stuff) from Duncan's. I can still remember the long glass bottle with a screw top and that wonderful transparent amber coloured ...read more here
Contributed by Mick Austin
Northamptonshire memories
The Bull
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 I drooled as I looked in his shop window at those wonderful blue and white striped Dinky toy boxes containing every car and lorry in miniture' Even when we were ill it usually meant a dollop of Lucozade (lovely stuff) from Duncan's. I can still remember the long glass bottle with a screw top and that wonderful transparent amber coloured ...read more here
A memory of Irthlingborough contributed by Mick Austin
The Rookery
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 3 houses, (we lived in the centre house), Jack Thomsons (manager at Procea) had some of the rooms and the Brailsford (dentist) family had the house closest to the factory. Sadly The Rookery was pulled down in the mid-60's. The house was grand with large windows and very high ceilings. Today The Rookery would have been a listed building and ...read more here
A memory of Irthlingborough contributed by Mick Austin
Extracts From Irthlingborough & Northamptonshire books
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.
An extract from from"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.
An extract from from"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.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
The pavilion in the park became popular locally for celebrations and company dinners. One of Charles Wicksteed’s nventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread. As he grew older, Charles Wicksteed would often visit the park in a two-seater car, with his terrier, Jerry, sitting in the passenger seat. In 1927 Jerry disappeared on one of these outings. He was never found, and in his memory his master had a statue erected in the gardens of the park, with a commemorative verse: Closely bound to a human heart, Little brown dog, you had your part In the levelling, building, staying of streams In the Park that arose from your Master’s dreams.’
An extract from from"Kettering Town and City Memories".
The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children’s amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.
An extract from from"Kettering Town and City Memories".