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Towcester photos

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Towcester maps

Historic maps of Towcester and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Towcester maps

Towcester map

Historic map of Towcester

Northamptonshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Northamptonshire

Towcester map

Historic Map of any Towcester postcode

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Towcester books

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Northampton Town and City Memories
Paperback
$26

Kettering Town and City Memories
Paperback
$26

Northamptonshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Towcester books
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Memories of Towcester

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Dreams

Now living in Australia, when we think of England we think of the Brave Old Oak when it was kept by Tony and Sylvia Hackett. What a magical Inn, what a magnificient couple, they represented everything unique about English Innkeeping. Friends tell us it is now a pigstye patronised by yobs, a disgrace to a lovely English Market Town

Shared on 03 September 2009 by Peter Martin.

Northamptonshire memories

6th Northwood Scouts go hostelling

I remember staying at the youth hostel in Greens Norton with the patrol leaders of the 6th Northwood Scout Group. I was an ASL (Assistant Scout Leader) with the troop for several years and as I had always loved going to the YHA hostels I suggested a couple of days' cycling for the older boys. Maybe the other leaders knew more than... [more]

Shared on 18 January 2010 by John Howard Norfolk.

St John's School

I remember the Sunday March to Tiffield Church from St John's School and return. I remember masters there - Betteridge, Faid, Wooley and the young lads 'lusting' after Headmaster's daughter!! The good teaching received there.
My 'friends' and our adventures on our 'Day Out', Sinnott jumping into the canal to give us an excuse for returning late to school ... whatever... [more]

Shared on 30 September 2008 by Ivor Heyman-Heybyrne.

Whittlebury School Reunion ?

Is there an interest in a reunion of all the old boys from the school? I was thinking along the lines of a once only in say mid 2011, if I could have some feedback and see what happens. Contact is tim@cmmassoc.co.nz

Shared on 14 February 2010 by Tim Brown.

Whittlebury School

Martin, I believe I remember you, and I also remember Phillip Sproughton. I would like to hear from you. What happened to Major Meager, and Miss Brooks? John Pink

Shared on 31 January 2010 by John Pink.

Memory of School

Mr Thurston, music master. Mr Meager, Major Meager's father, also music teacher, remember him as a very old man, another master, Mr Pepper, I believe at the end of term whilst going home had a car accident, collided into a bus in thick fog. Do you remember Wells pupil, also John Luston. Jeffrey Watts, Pen A Pen B. Morris I can... [more]

Shared on 25 June 2009

Old Boys

I can remember pupils attending: Malcolm Airey, Clive/Bill Needham, Christopher Strother, Antony Meager, Pinkerton, Baxter, Kimberley, George Wallace, Ward, Philip Lacey, my brothers Stephen and Mark Pink. I am John Pink. Staff I can remember are Major Meager, Mr Rhodes, Mr Smith, Mr Burr, Mr Thurston, Mr Ryan, Major Hyde-Upward. The Matrons Mrs Smith, Miss Brooks. Mr Smith, master. Philip Sproughton,... [more]

Shared on 22 June 2009

Whittlebury Lodge College

I was a pupil at Whittlebury College 1962-1964 . The school was run by Major Meager and his wife as a sort of "crammer" for those of us who needed to get more help for O and A levels. The teachers were perhaps not the best in the county but did help many to get the O levels that were needed, including... [more]

Shared on 18 August 2008 by Nigel Daniel.

Extracts From Towcester & Northamptonshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Towcester, inspired by Frith photos.

Northamptonshire Living Memories

This view of the River Tove is taken from the bridge that crosses the river on the line the Romans set for Watling Street, where the road itself changes alignment from north-west to west-north-west. This view records the hay piled up to dry in the riverside meadow: - a sight that disappeared long ago to make way for a tyre company.... [more]

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Northamptonshire Living Memories

In these last years before the M1 opened, Towcester was busy with traffic heading for Birmingham and the Midlands. Frith's photographer recorded it on a quiet day. Towcester has a long history, initially as a Roman fort and town called 'Lactodorum' located on the route the Anglo-Saxons called Watling Street which ran from Richborough in Kent to Shropshire. On the right... [more]

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Northamptonshire Photographic Memories

Towcester is a small old town on the Tove, with a number of Georgian houses and a pleasant market place. At the far end of the market place stands the imposing Victorian Town Hall, while on the right of the picture is a sign for the historic 15th-century Talbot Hotel. The Romans built the walled town of Lactodorum here.

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