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Memories
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Whittlebury Lodge College
Dear Whittlebury Alumni, I have many pictures of my late Dad Sunil Bramdaw's stay at Whittlebury in the early 60s. First a student at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire and subsequently at Whittlebury Lodge College in ...Read more
A memory of Whittlebury by
St Johns 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 ...Read more
A memory of Tiffield in 1948 by
Twentieth Century Club And Memories Of Bygone Times
I was born in Northampton in 1940, and lived there until December 1953. Both my dad and mum were Northampton born and bred, but while my mum's family go way back in time in the area, my dad's ...Read more
A memory of Northampton in 1953 by
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 ...Read more
A memory of Wellingborough in 1963 by
The Best Years Of My Life
Happy memories indeed. For an eight year old living in the village in the mid 1950s it was heaven. Long summer evenings and school holidays playing in woods, open fields and on building sites. Or cycling (yes at ...Read more
A memory of Earls Barton in 1955 by
Memories From An Evacuee
I was a World War II evacuee, and after a short "phony war" trip to Northampton, when the Blitz began I was sent to Llantrisant. I have nothing but warm memories of the town. I was thee years old and billeted with an ...Read more
A memory of Llantrisant in 1940 by
My Memory's Of Bozeat Windmill
MY farther was the headmaster at the school from 1949 till 1962 He made a scrap book with history of the village and as far as I can remember it was given to a small museum in Northampton. The book had some information ...Read more
A memory of Bozeat by
The Golden Hind
My family have come from Southend on Sea since the early 1800s, there name is Cass, one of my 7 auntie's Ivy Cass was the cashier on the Golden Hind it was open 364 days a year and only closed on Christmas day. From 1945 until ...Read more
A memory of Southend-on-Sea by
My Mixed Memories Of Corby
How different we can be! I absolutely did not like Sister Veronica at Our Lady's Junior School, she frightened me to death. I remember Sister Anthony and Sr Hilda and they took us to Gerrards Cross where their order had a ...Read more
A memory of Corby in 1952 by
Weston Favell Upper School 1966 1970
I went to Weston Favell Upper School in 1966 aged 11 of which I have very fond memories. I left at the age of 15 in 1970. In that time Weston Favell was on the Eastern edge of Northampton in Booth lane, The ...Read more
A memory of Northampton by
Captions
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Only three remain; the other two are at Hardingstone, near Northampton, and Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire.
The ground drops to the river, which is crossed by a bridge on the Northampton Road.
Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.
This is the view from Northampton Road, with the George Hotel roof visible behind the bus station.
Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.
After his trial for treason at Northampton in 1164, Thomas à Beckett escaped from St Andrew's Priory.
The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard's rubblestone retaining walls.
This chapter starts in the county town of Northampton – in its superb and large market square.
This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.
Its construction was started in 1574 by the Comptons, who later became earls of Northampton, and the great courtyard house was completed in the earlier 17th century.
'Phildelphus Jeyes' was a local business then, a branch of the chain set up by Philadelphus Jeyes of Northampton - the inventor of the disinfectant, Jeyes Fluid.
The river rises on the Northampton-Oxfordshire border and winds east through Bedford on its leisurely way to the Wash near King's Lynn.
This busy junction, uniting five roads, including Northampton Road and Sheep Street, was lit by a single, central lamp post.
The two-storey office ranges screen the vast factory behind, in which bearings and specialist steel castings and fabrications are made (Northampton was not just boot and shoe facto- ries).
Boys who joined aged about 17 were sent aboard the 'Calliope' or the 'Northampton'.
William was taken before Henry II at Northampton and then shipped off to Falaise.
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