The Drum has a pretty unique clientele full of old Northampton faces, and is still a place where you can hear the old Northampton accent. I first remember this building from the bus stop outside, what I mean is the number 36 bus from Kingsthorpe, on a Saturday morning to go and meet my Nan in Lawrences on St. Giles Street for a Towcester Cheesecake, before going to the market and Fish Market before coming back home. I have tried to find images of The FireFly but I cant find any decent ones. topology. Museum Hours. It is called Last Orders and the author is Dave Knibb. 1971. This page is not available in other languages. Some of these pubs had been around for years and others newly built during the modernization that took place during the late 1960s and 1970s. Highlights of the 1970 FA Cup 5th Round tie between Manchester United and Northampton. In the 199495 English football season the company sponsored local team Northampton Town F.C. Visitors are welcome at all meetings. I will hopefully remember more as time goes by and before my memory, like those pubs, goes for good. On internal evidence, I would date it as 1959-60. A chair was definitely smashed over someones head, and Im sure me and my cousin Scott, hid under the pool table, but that might be my imagination getting the better of me. Northampton Brilliant old photos of Northampton's Market Square and Newlands date back to 70s Do you remember when Northampton looked like this? It was called Roland Holloway's Northamptonshire, Fifty Years of Photographs 19241974, published by Northamptonshire Libraries. I have very happy if not blurry memories of Tops. Green, Foot, Marquis and Warwick were all at different times editor of the Chronicle's long-running daily 'chat' page, called Town Talk and County Gossip by Hamtune. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Northampton, OH Township Now Part Of Summit County 1820-1970 Token Wooden Nickel at the best online prices at eBay! The interior was a highly fashionable 1970s orange and brown. According to Dave Knibbs book Last Orders (. ) Resident Bob Ramshaw has kindly shared photos he has found of the town from 60 years ago. The Fire Fly in Dallington (also known as the Red Earl and The Dallington Brook). Picture special - 59 photos of May Day celebrations from towns and villages across north Northamptonshire from the 1970s to the 2000s. Some watered-down vinegar and brown pepper, not black pepper this was England in the 1970s dont forget. It was in 1767 that the new landlord changed its name to The White Hart. Where youll find an article in the Chron. National World Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Billing is a civil parish in eastern Northampton in England, covering the Great Billing, Little Billing, Ecton Brook and Bellinge areas. . So it became a bit of a local, especially around the time my mate Lionel, who was the landlord at The Sportmans, took over running the pub. I always thought he was an old landlord but it seems Dave Knibb dug up proof he was the manager of the Shipman wholesale business and lived on the premises. The Northampton based McManus Pub Company have owned the building since 2015 and they keep saying it will re-open again soon, 5 years seems a long time to be doing up such a small bar so lets hope it opens its doors again soon . The really dramatic changes took place mostly in the 1970s, though, when I was living elsewhere. I have the vaguest of memories of being in there one Saturday when a big bar room brawl happened. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. 1785 the pub was selling rums, brandies and wines. Source:[citation needed], .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}Win The FireFly in Dallington (also known as the Red Earl). I seem to remember we used to go from The Duke Of York, to the Half Way House working our way back into Kingsthorpe. Anti-Vietnam war demonstration on Boston Common. During a career running from the 1920s to the 1970s, Roland took more than 80,000 photographs and attended 28,000 assignments. Flickr/Wally Gobetz. Dynamite Records With huge space in the basement of Thorne's Marketplace, Dynamite carried a wide inventory and was best known for great imports, especially odd prog rock and art rock titles, such as ones from Gong, The Art Bears, and Fred Frith. The town of Northampton I grew up in 1945-1963 was completely transformed in the 1960s and 1970s. Amazing really, the old CB thing, 10-year-old kids talking to lorry drivers all night in their bedrooms?! The Semilong Working Mens club was over the road and I used to enjoy going in there too. You could grab a decent, cheap, second-hand Telecaster thereor a vintage guitar costing thousands. A few hours of sleep would mean we had the energy to go to the Working Mens Club later that evening. I have divided the map into six sections for viewing. This one in Greenfield in 1939 looks just the same as any you'd see today. Because other articles have covered bygone bars and restaurants already, they are being are excluded from this list. Then we would 10 4 for a copy and talk to strange lorry drivers on my cousins CB radio, which would be connected to a car battery and sat on a tin tray. I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. Any way back to Great Russell Street. USS Boston (CAG 1) is in the background. I have the vaguest of memories of being in there one Saturday when a big barroom brawl happened. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 8,642, decreasing at the 2011 census to 8,457. He said: "Within four hours of coming to Northampton we had a house and a job.". The night club closed in 1991. On February 3 1965, Minister for Housing Richard Crossman announced that Northampton was to be one of a number of new towns offering housing to people living in poor conditions in London. In all, 15,655 new homes were built between 1970 and 1985. The stairs going up to that top bar were a bloody nightmare, and I saw people fall down them more than once. Smith College Northampton, MA . Up It is now much smaller than it used to be. Mason. The Keep was built along with the Kingsthorpe shopping arcade in 1973, opening its doors in 1974. What they are missing is the vibe of the city during the early days of it becoming an entertainment hotspot in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Take a look at these captivating images from 1970s Massachusetts. See my other project Northampton Dreaming. It was a very local establishment, but as a kid drinking in Kingsthorpe it would be part of the pub run we would do. I cant remember much about this place except my family used to drink in there and it often crops up in conversation. The images I remember from the gentlemans afternoons cant easily be removed. This place had previously been a nightclub called Fantasia. The map carries no date. When I was a lad The Bull Hotel was still on the corner of Campbell Street and the Bird In The Hand (now called The Edge Of Town) was where my pap drank was close by. It had other names too, some I remember are Sinatras, the short lived Hermans, which quickly changed to Macbeths, and it also became one The Cookie Club franchised venues. Being railwaymen the Railway Tavern and the Pomfret Arms were locals. To learn more, I thought my childhood was pretty ordinary. It was newly build when the old club which I think had been in Earl Street was demolished. The Fish Man wore an outfit a bit like a milkman and carried with him and a wicker basket full of little trays containing, prawns, cockles, whelks, crab sticks, and kippers for the morning. I moved to Semilong in my late teens and lived on Stanley Street, then Semilong Road, and then St Pauls Road. (A construction firm I worked for as a Anyway a gang of us would do the Kingthorpe crawl, this would have been around 1988/89. Northampton You can selectively provide your consent below to allow such third party embeds. A glossy monthly, the Northampton Town and County Independent, edited by Bernard Holloway and the local author-editor Lou Warwick, was also published by the same company, which was once part of the United Newspapers group headed by Lord Barnetson. "We used to look out from London Road at green fields, now you have to go three or four miles to get to them. side of the market square. 5. Among those encouraged to come to the new town were former servicemen and Mr Lang had been a Navy man. Wednesday - Sunday. Tree Lined Main Street Northampton, MA . Eventually closing its doors around 2013. January. The Old Country Store The Shipman family continued to run the pub until the early part of 1900s. The scale of the printed map is Alpert Mall and BU Beach, Boston University. one. I have a hazy memory of my family and their friends drinking in the Garibaldi. NRA 45028 Johnson family, carpenters and joiners of Clay Coton and Welford. HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON. I cant remember much about this place except my family used to drink in there and it often crops up in conversation. ), the number of floors and the height of the building, as well as construction materials (and thus risk of burning) and special fire hazards (chemicals, kilns, ovens) were documented in order to estimate premiums. I have lovely memories of this place. type a type Betjeman detested. Two went on to become editors: Lou Warwick of the Northampton Town and County Independent, John Marquis of the Packet Newspapers group in Cornwall and The Tribune (a morning newspaper) in the Bahamas. . Very fond memories of putting on the band Torn Sail, they brought a Hammond organ and their own PA and it sounded fantastic, which for The Lamplighter made a real change. That part of the club was eventually closed off, as the Fire Department said it was a hazard and didnt have a working fire escape. Queen Eleanor's Cross The Mountain Goat This wound is still a little raw, as this Main Street destination shop just closed in 2013. Cite This Collection. Browse our selection of vintage, retro and nostalgic black and white photographs of Northampton. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Northampton Chronicle and Echo, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. week not bad for a 14-year-old at the time, when working men supported families on less than 20 a week. Follow this link to see the hand screen printed poster I did ! And of course, hundreds of small shops catering for every need., Do you remember the town like this? My biggest memory of the Sportmans was one of my many uncles let me drive his Capri from outside the pub after an afternoon session there, I think we was heading to The Fire Fly. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023. I was born in Northampton, at the Barratt Maternity Home, which opened in 1936 when the footwear entrepreneur William Barratt gave the hospital a generous donation. Unlike Cinderellas, which was a night club in St. James, you didnt have to wear a shirt and tie! A huge club where my Uncle would do a meat raffle on a Sunday lunchtime. Local people, in my recollection, just refer to both indiscriminately as "the In One Head & Out the Other - Pete Heyworth, Matthew Felce, Greg Bull, Mark Davess Women of color and working class women were centrally involved in this struggle against sexual The Shipmans sits opposite The Drum on Drum Lane and also had an entrance on the Drapery. The song, originally part of an advert that blasted its way out of car stereos across London, proved so popular that Northampton Development Corporation (NDC) released it as a single. It is now much smaller than it used to be. Draw this location. I remember the old man and my uncles would take on the Morris Man in charity football and cricket matches on the grass land behind the pub. buildings were demolished and new Among the Chronicle & Echo's most notable journalists were author Michael Green, who wrote The Art of Coarse Rugby, scriptwriter Alistair Foot, the Guardian's readers' editor Ian Mayes, chairman of the Sportswriters Association Barry Newcombe, former Boxing Board of Control general secretary John Morris, theatre historian Lou Warwick, and author and editor John Marquis (formerly of Reuters and Thomson Newspapers), whose books about the Sir Harry Oakes murder case and the Haitian tyrant Papa Doc have found an international audience. The boys' school The Chron's main competitor is the weekly Northampton Herald & Post (circulation 45,582)[4] which is free and delivered throughout the town and surrounding areas but in comparison is lighter on news and heavy on advertising. 1. With no indigenous coal supply, local industrialists relied principally upon natural resources for industrial processing, particularly wind and water. Its been through many modernisations in the past 10 years. The Heavy Crates vinyl junkies get togethers, especially the one where the building across the road caught fire and no one could leave the pub. student used to use it for storage, and I was inside the place several times. I would see loads of bands play at the Soundhaus and even did DJ support there, it felt odd that two venues Id played and danced in as a kid, the Fanciers and Friendlies, were also the places I played and danced at as a young adult, even if my chosen vice was no longer cherry pop and a packet of scratchings. The stairs going up to that top bar were a bloody nightmare, and I saw people fall down them more than once. On the bar would be a proper spread of pork pie, dripping sandwiches, jellied eels, black pudding, scratchings, chicken thighs, ham, and all good healthy pub grub. 3. Originating about 1100 as a walled town with a castle on the River Nene, Northampton was granted its first charter in 1189. In later years, Blockbuster Videos was next door to The Keep, before the whole place was torn down and the pub was buried under the new Waitrose carpark. So with this photo and the others Id found I was able to piece a illustration together. It opened in 1897, and it featured two trolleys connected by a . These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). The only nights we went there was on a Thursday night, as the DJ would play this exciting new music, Acid. I thought everybody spent their childhood dayn the pub, around extended house parties, and the Working Mens Club on a Sunday night. It was a start of new subculture and the time for raves had begun. My Home Page There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. market square, whose demolition (to make way for the Grosvenor Centre mall) was so much lamented, was in fact a seedy The two teams stood on either side of the river and the losers were declared when one of the teams ended up being pulled into the Nene. But by the late 1960s and into the 1970s, this old shoe tayn with so many beautiful and distinctive buildings was changing. It must have been around the late 70s early 80s when we drank there. The town, Sideways The smoking head above the fireplace used to scare me with its grimace and a fag sticking out its mouth. The men only snug of the Friendlies became the green room and later where the DJ booth was moved to. All this before going to Top Of The Town, hopefully getting off with a girl, and then hitting Up All Night for food and if money allowed we would cross the road to the taxi rank or walking the 3 miles home. Lizotte's A tobacconist/newspaper shop. Beautiful buildings like the Notre Dame High School in Abington Street and the St. Johns Street railway station went, as roads were widened and industrial new builds erected. Not much different to how I imagined everyones childhood was. Green's book The Art of Coarse Acting was based on his experiences as an amateur actor at Northampton's amateur drama group the Masque Theatre. Insurance Plan of Northampton (1899): Key Plan 3 1 : 3600 This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1899 series of fire insurance maps of Northampton that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. Sat beside the Bus Station was the Grosvenor Centre. I remember the shoe factory my Nan used to work in was nearby and my Uncle Richard, or Dick as he was known, lived on Thomas Street, just up from the Vocal. Going to the Club on Sunday meant we lost our Sunday afternoons. Gradually the name changed to Northampton. The couple's three bedroom house cost 5,500 and although they only stayed there six years, they remain in Northampton. Specializing in spiritual and philosophical tomes, the store was the place you'd go for a book on Sufis by Idries Shaw or a biography of Kierkegaard. I dont remember much of the cricket as I seem to recall we spent most of the matches under the seating collecting plastic pint glasses which we would take back to the bar for pennies.
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