Corby, The Cinema c.1955

Photo ref: C337302

My dad Jimmy was the local 'Baxter the butcher' for many years. I remember going to Samuel LLoyds school and going to see him to get my mince for cookery. We used to live next door to the doctor's surgery in Wensleydale Road and had all the lovely woods to play in when we were young. My grandad, Tommy Hamilton, lived in Rowlett Road so I wasn't very far from them when I went to the Infants, and was still close by when I went to the Junior School ...those were the lovely days of my youth.

I remember going to The Odeon on Saturday mornings with my cousins. My family lived in Stephenson's Way then before we moved to Chelveston Drive. It was a long walk from what was The Lodge Park Estate and we'd go in a gang and replay the film on our way home across West Glebe. I loved Flash Gordon. In later years I'd go with my boyfriend to see the latest film. I remember going to see Psycho in 1960. It was really ...see more

If you walked around the first corner to the Odeon you got a good view of the old Blast Furnaces that use to turn Corby's night sky orange. It never got dark in the Corby of my childhood. The Candle and all the steel and tube mills lit the night up. The Odeon was Corby's only cinema in the sixties before the Civic Centre was built. I saw my first film there. 'The Wizard of Oz'. That must have been '61 or '62. Later ...see more

I was born at 23 Fotheringay Road in March 1959, across from the Spar Shops, where at one time my uncle Bert ran an Askit van. On my way to Woodnewton School, he always gave me a Kitkat. He stayed on Argyle Street, behind the town centre. My father worked in Stewart and Lloyds, along with his brother Joe Kerr. My mum was a nurse at the Agnostic Centre and was once in the local press. My neighbours were the Maxemmews, ...see more