Woodford Halse
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Woodford Halse books (14 available)
Daventry Living Memories
Hardback
Daventry Living Memories
Paperback
Wellingborough Living Memories
Paperback
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Woodford Halse memories
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Early years
My early memories of Woodford, were being taken by bus, from Byfield Primary School, to the Moravian church, in Parsons Street, for the polio injection, also of going to the cinema, which was opposite the Post Office, to see the Big Country.
Some of my relatives, worked on the railway, I spent a lot of happy times, watching the comings and goings, to the sheds, watching the Master Cutler and the Yorkshireman, the two high speed mainline trains, at that time.
Contributed by neville eyles
Northamptonshire memories
Early years
My early memories of Woodford, were being taken by bus, from Byfield Primary School, to the Moravian church, in Parsons Street, for the polio injection, also of going to the cinema, which was opposite the Post Office, to see the Big Country.
Some of my relatives, worked on the railway, I spent a lot of happy times, watching the comings and goings, to the sheds, watching the Master Cutler and the Yorkshireman, the two high speed mainline trains, at that time.
A memory of Woodford Halse contributed by neville eyles
early schooldays.
My memories of Byfield, where I lived on the brand new council estate, in Lovett Road, are idyllic. I was there from age 6 to 10, then we moved to York.
We children had to walk what seemed like miles, in all weathers, to the village school which was on the opposite side of the village. Passing the sweet shop on Dolls Hill, where halfpenny chews, sherbert dips and gobstoppers were the treat of the week, we would race down the hill to the stream at the bottom,over the bridge, then through the centre of the old village which had an Inn on either side of the road. One of these, The Rose & Crown(?) used to be the meeting place ...read more here
A memory of Byfield contributed by Rosemarie Delaney
On the Grn
Iremember when Ry and Tania took over the Roma and we had the Maltsters at Badby.
And I remember when the takings went missing from the 'music on the green' charity event last Sat, June 2008. [Well, someone has to leave a comment.]
A memory of Newnham contributed by marcus hume
Extracts From Woodford Halse & Northamptonshire books
Woodford Halse grew from a small ironstone village in the later 19th century, partly through ironstone working but mostly when the Great Central Railway arrived in 1899. As a result there are numerous terraces of workers’ cottages, all in brick and mainly attached to the west side of the village. This view looks along one of the best streets in Woodford Halse with mainly stone houses and the dominating Moravian Church of 1906.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
Before the dawn of the railway era, Woodford Halse was a sleepy community untouched by time. With the cutting of the Great Central line through the Midlands towards the end of the last century, the place changed almost beyond recognition. Around the time this photograph was taken, the village station and the line were axed, and a stillness descended on Woodford Halse once more.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Photographic Memories".
Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets. At the end of the street is the Village Centre, a former school, while to its left you can just see the chancel of the medieval parish church. Woodford Halse Post Office has moved to the electricity shop, while Cundy’s, the former post office, is now an empty shop (2002).
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
We are looking westwards
along the Grand Union Canal
on its way to Birmingham, at
point where it originally joined
the Oxford Canal. This junction
was later moved further on,
and the ‘cut’ to the left became
the entrance to the ‘pound’. The
building on the left is the Stop
House, where boats would stop
to pay their tolls as they moved
from one canal company canal
to another. The ‘Belmont’ (centre
left) is the butty to the ‘Stanton’
(next to it), belonging originally
to Barlows. Butties were the un-
powered boats towed by their
powered partner.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
The marina was
originally a reservoir
to maintain levels
in the Grand Union
Canal; it was also
used as a pound to
moor working boats.
Water was pumped
from here up to
the top lock. The
line of bushes and
trees in the middle
distance hide the
embankment of the
railway line, which
ran from Weedon
through Daventry
to Leamington.
The service was
withdrawn in 1959.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".