Wellingborough
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Wellingborough books (13 available)
Wellingborough Living Memories
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Wellingborough Living Memories
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Daventry Living Memories
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Wellingborough memories
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St Barnabas school
I went to St Barnabas school from 1950 until 1953, I have just found an old school photo from the above years. I can put names to some of the faces but could do with some help with the rest. Can anyone help?
Contributed by john tomkins
Boys swimming at Wilby Lido
From the mid thirties until the building of the new swimming pool in Wellingborough. After the war in the late forties, fifties and sixties, the boys of Wellingborough Grammar School regularly had swimming lessons and their annual swimming gala here. Is this a picture of a swimming lesson?
Contributed by David Tall
I helped out at the zoo
When I was still at school I went and helped out in the evenings and weekends at the zoo and one of my jobs was feeding the penguins.
Contributed by julie knighton
The Lyric Cinema
The Bedford O Type lorry is delivering fruit & Veg and belonged to Mackness Produce (a local firm) on the right is the old 'Cosy Cafe' which I remember 'doing' a great toasted tea cake and cup of tea. The Co-Op buildings are farther down (I bought my first 'stereo' hi-fi system from there on HP) I remember the Co-Op having an island shop window (you could walk all around it) it always facinated me as a young lad. Lower down the street was the Lyric cinema, The Lyric was always a cut above the Palace cinema in terms of decoration, on Saturdays they held a matinee which featured a live local group and cartoons, kids from Wellingborough all wore the ...read more here
Contributed by Mick Austin
Swangate Centre
All the buildings on the left of the picture (nearly all Co-Op shops) were demolished to make way for the new Arndale Centre (now Swangate). Most of the local population still mourn the passing of this part of the old town. The public house at the top of Midland Road was The Old Kings Arms (this became Jones the furnishers and then a carpet shop)
Contributed by Mick Austin
pork pie
Wellingborough locals always know this building as the 'Pork Pie' church.......for obvious reasons !
Contributed by Mick Austin
Singing in the choir
My parents, Harry and Nancy were married in this Congregational Church and I was a Sunday School Teacher and sang tenor in the choir in the late fifties before going to university. It has a splendid organ with a triumphant tuba stop that David Jones the organist used to good effect in blazing out the melody over new harmonies in the hymn-singing.
Contributed by David Tall
The Beatles
I remember 6th November 1963, The Beatles were playing at the ABC cinema in Northampton and word got around that the famous 'Fab Four' were staying at The Hind Hotel. The place was surrounded by fans hoping to get a closer look at John,Paul,George and Ringo....alas they were all deprived of this chance, not only were The Beatles not staying at the hotel but they were'nt staying at any local hotel !! Infact they played 26 minutes ending their performance with 'Twist & Shout' and as the national anthem was playing in the cinema they were making their getaway via a factory in St Michaels Road to be escorted by police back down the M1 to London ! Apparently no one ...read more here
Contributed by Mick Austin
The Palace Cinema
The pub on the left of the picture was renowned for a few brawls in it's time, originally called The Globe (now known as Raferty's) I recall walking down Cambridge St and seeing a man being hurled through the window into the street. The United Counties Bristol bus is parked outside the old Palace Cinema (better known by locals as the 'flea pit') These were the days of ice cream ladies in the interval, watching films through a haze of cigarette smoke and plastic orange drink cartons being squashed noisely to be followed very quickly by a cinema usher shining a torch in your face and escorting you off the premises.The Palace was renowned for having seats situated behind columns that ...read more here
Contributed by Mick Austin
Extracts From Wellingborough & Northamptonshire books
This photograph was taken at the junction of Silver Street and Oxford Street. The first building on the right is now a cafe, but its overall appearance is much the same. The Angel Hotel on the left closed some years ago, though the prominent lettering on the upper part of the building is still faintly recognisable.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Photographic Memories".
Looking up the High Street from the direction of Silver Street and Oxford Street shows a quiet street scene with little traffic. Many of the buildings look much the same, though the road here is much busier today. The High Street sign is still there, though the shops below it have changed hands over the years. At the top of the street, at right angles to the shops, is the United Reformed Church.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Photographic Memories".
A Howe, a ladies and gents’ tailor, is now a florist; the coach builders’ on the left has been replaced by a modern supermarket. The buildings to the right of it are still there and look much the same. At the end of the row is a pub, the Coach and Horses.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Photographic Memories".
Many of the shops you see in this picture have changed hands. The shop on the corner with the awning is now McDonalds, and what was United Counties on the opposite corner is now a travel shop. The upper part of the building looks much the same today.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Photographic Memories".
At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town. It serves as a reminder of the distinction of this stone town before it was transformed by industrialisation in the 19th century. Oliver’s cocktail bar and coffee lounge is now next door (left).
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".