Living In Corby

A Memory of Corby.

I attended Rowlett Road Infants and Studfall Junior School and Corby Grammar School. I lived in Irving Grove. I enjoyed growing up in Corby and I remember going to the dances at the Catholic School run by a lady named Nellie? The dances at the Boys School were good and the Grammar School square and barn dances. I also remember going with my Sisters to the Odeon on a Saturday morning and getting a Jubly and Lucky Bag to go in with. I went to Ballet classes in a St John's Ambulance hut where the car wash and garage now are near to Asda. The Ballet class was moved to Gainsborough Road opposite the school. I can remember buying stockings and tights off a man on the market and buying fabric from Geoff who could never measure a yard right, he always gave to much. The fish stall, the shoe stall, the fruit and veg stalls. I loved looking around that market. I now live in the USA and miss lots of English things. I remember Corporation Street on a Saturday afternoon full of people, Woolworths when they sold broken biscuits and loose sweets, the Maypole Shop where the drug store now is. I remember the Crows Nest for the Motor Bikers. I can remember the fair that only happens every twenty years and was held on a field near to where the main Post office used to be which is now a night club and a roundabout. Lots of fun times were had when I was growing up. The Youth Centre at the Columbus Church on a Friday night run by a man named Fred Jelly.