Towcester, Watling Street And Saracens Head Hotel c.1955
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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 is The Saracen's Head, a former coaching inn that features in Dickens' 'The Pickwick Papers'.
An extract from Northamptonshire Living Memories.
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