Milton Malsor
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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 happened to them all??? 'Ricky' Richardson, 'Wiggy' Roberts and many others!! The friendly villagers. The 1st Tiffield Scout Troop at St Johns. My becoming Troop Leader. The trips to cinema in Towcester, Northampton. Cricket, football, played at school playing fields. Memories I have carried through my life. Returning from a 'Task' with RAF in late 1980s, I saw St John's ...read more here
A memory of Tiffield contributed by ivor heyman-heybyrne
Car project.
The Morris car depicted in the photograph was overhauled and bodied by my late father, Arthur Parker, in 1951-2. He had removed the body from a c1937 Morris 8 van, overhauled the mechanics and the chassis, and built from scratch a new shooting brake style body. As a 7-year old I was thrilled to be able to help with the work and immensely proud of the result. Unfortunately, when father came to register the car the authorities decided to demand the full purchase tax which hadn't been levied on the original pre-war commercial vehicle. This sum, in the hard times of the early 1950s, was difficult to find and the Morris sadly had to be sold to ...read more here
A memory of Duston contributed by Mr C Parker
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 family mostly originated from London. However, dad was fairly well known due to being in the local boxing club, and playing in the Northampton brass band. In any event, he married my mum in 1939, and was almost immediately called up, due to the war commencing. During the following war years, my brother Michael was born, (mid war baby), and my other brother David was the inevitable demob baby. When dad was demobbed, we had already moved into a house in Grafton Place ...read more here
A memory of Northampton contributed by sydney claydon
Gwendoline Hodges
It is as if my grandmother Gwendoline Edith Hunt, nee Hodges, has ceased to exist. For years and through various forums I have searched for information about her and her family (Wooton locals....Horace and Ethel Hodges who lived at Resthaven Road for many years) yet have had no luck. She is listed as having died at the age of 30 in 1941 at Parkfield Avenue.
There is a bit of a sad tale, that she left 3 of her 4 children (one of which was my father) and put them on a bus to another relative, they were in foster care for many years. The other child, nobody seems to know what happened to her.
So many questions, unanswered due ...read more here
A memory of Northampton contributed by Sheridan Davies
Extracts From Milton Malsor & Northamptonshire books
Beyond Blisworth and virtually within earshot of the M1 (which opened in the late 1950s) Milton Malsor survives proximity to Northampton remarkably well. A compact village with concentric circles of winding, intimate lanes, the church has a surprisingly timeless appearance with the field in the foreground used for village fetes, including the 2002 Golden Jubilee fete. In this view the curious stumpy 14th-century steeple sits atop a 13th-century tower.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
This view is in the heart of the village, where Green Street meets the High Street at a small green with a 1920s War Memorial cross. This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
The buildings on the left, the west side of the Market Place, mostly survive today, apart from the two at
the far left. Unlike a French market square, the south and west side of Northampton’s market place in
particular have a delightful informality and physical variety, with no building the same as its neighbour.
An extract from from"Northampton Town and City Memories".
10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton. The place also had a Norman earthwork castle, a motte and bailey type;
in later years it was a boot and shoe making town, one of several that thrived around Northampton.
An extract from from"Northampton Town and City Memories".
Just east of the village, where Main Road curves towards Bants Lane, stands this
large factory, which employed over 3,000 people in the 1960s. 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). British Timken is, in the modern way of things, now just known as Timken.
Although the building now has new windows without glazing bars, these elegant
offices with their slightly higher projecting pavilions remain as a tribute to the
architectural quality and care that could be given to such buildings in the 1930s.
An extract from from"Northampton Town and City Memories".