Opened in 1982 by John and Patricia Riley, who now own Gabriel Books on Market Street, it was bought by Mark Brumberg who ran it until 1997. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc. NRA 30228 Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian: family and estate papers. Hazey memories of lots of levels in this pub. Whilst I was doing this project my mate Richard told me about a book he had purchased by a local author which was all about lost pubs in Northampton. Around the 1960s the Victoria Inn closed its doors as a public house becoming the headquarters to the Northampton Nene Angling Club and for a short time the the Navy Club, before reopening again as pub in the 1980s. Take a look at these captivating images from 1970s Massachusetts. ", Picture special - 59 photos of May Day celebrations from towns and villages across north Northamptonshire from the 1970s to the 2000s, Have you seen these two children? Other places from my past, but more as a teenager who had just starting to drink, in no particular order of preference include; The North Star in Acre Lane (a great music quiz on a Sunday); The King William IV (King Billy) in Kingsthorpe, The (Old) Fox and Hounds in Kingsthorpe, The Duke Of York in Semilong and others . Credit to the Image Owners Featured (A construction firm I worked for as a We offer IT/Web sessions to members on Wednesday mornings at MK Museum. Later it was called North Hamm tun, probably to distinguish it from Southampton. Except one, my mate Jim who I worked with at Michael Jones. I think it had a long single-story building and a larger more house like one at one end. The Ordnance Survey disagrees, giving the name only to the river flowing west-east from the Daventry heights (see By 1984 the population had mushroomed to 163,000. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). But Bill Davisons The Black Cat Jazz Bar was my favorite. "I just can't wait to be in Northampton!". 2-inch map I used to DJ here on a Saturday night with my mate Dixy, Uncle Seltzers Kosmik Surgery spun plastic discs of joy for many lock-ins. one. I asked my parents and they said it probably did happen. Rothmans Football Yearbook 1976/77, p.270. It was especially great to have such a store right downtown on Main Street, but it was still good when it moved to the shops on Service Center Road down off Pleasant Street. 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. So sang Linda Jardim in "60 miles by road or rail," the promotional track that helped attract thousands of people to make their new home in "Middle England". at the northeast corner of the I always had problems with the PA at The Lamplighter, it was a right pain in the arse if Im honest. Not much different to how I imagined everyones childhood was. I used to like popping in to the old pub after visiting The Bat & Wickets to play bar billiards as it was one of the few pubs to still have a table. You sometimes hear people longing for the Northampton of old. 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. I tried to find images of The Firefly but all I found was part photographs and press cuttings in the Chron calling it notorious. 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. Cite This Collection. Dave Nilsen: 0412501: 149k: A cake is presented to President John F. Kennedy aboard the USS Northampton, 13 April 1962. Streaking thrived through the 1970s and evolved as we approached the Reagan era. The only nights we went there was on a Thursday night, as the DJ would play this exciting new music, Acid. Another of the company's characters was the photographer Roland Holloway, who worked on the Chronicle, Mercury and Independent for half a century. Type the name of the parish in the search bar; Click on the location pin on the map One dead and seven injured in Cornwall nightclub knife attack, Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England, Additional flight to evacuate Britons from Sudan today, MasterChef Australia judge Jock Zonfrillo found dead aged 46, Ryanair cancels 220 flights over May 1 bank holiday due to strikes, Hardcore coronation fans already camped outside Buckingham Palace. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. . External. Mayes has also published compilations of his 'corrections and clarifications' columns in The Guardian. 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. Bob said: Taken mainly in Abington Street in the late 60s or early 70s when Northampton was a busy, thriving town, with two Woolworths, a Marks and Spencer, British Home Stores, Littlewoods, Adnitts, C&A, The Co-op and Emporium Arcades. The 2022-23 season is Northampton Town 's 125th year in their history and the club's second consecutive season in League Two. It was in 1767 that the new landlord changed its name to The White Hart. The back bar had soft furnishing and led out to the garden. One of the company's most notable figures was L W Dickens, long-serving editor of The Mercury and Herald, in its heyday the 'bible' of Northamptonshire farmers. His oldest brother would take the divvy there on a Friday night. View Down Main Street Northampton, MA . Is climate change killing Australian wine? topology. ! The boys' school I would often go the opposite way to everyone else, bloody sheep. I have tried to find images of The FireFly but I cant find any decent ones. We also visited the Spencer Working Mens Club which was not far from here. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. 10 talking about this. That fine old You may spot some familiar placesand perhaps some unfortunately familiar haircuts. changes. Opening the shop right after punk broke in 1977, Main Street Records was the go-to shop for releases by artists on the Stiff label and its ilk. side of the market square. I was also in there with my mate Cama, when I somehow wound someone chap up in the queue and a fight started, I spent most of the fight trying to retrieve Cams glasses that had been knocked off, when things settled down I emerged from under a table holding his unbroken glasses. The couple's three bedroom house cost 5,500 and although they only stayed there six years, they remain in Northampton. By 1832 The White Hart Wine Vaults had appeared. 12 noon - 5 pm. Some starting with Permaquip and then for British Rail, and later some for Lionverge. It was part of the new build of shops down the Front as us locals would call it. But it was around that time that the name changed from the Overstone Arms to The Lamplighter, it was run by Countryside Taverns back then with the Hanna brothers taking ownership in 2009. They had a small car park around the rear and I remember going up stairs into a room with a pool table and a long bar further into the building on the left hand side. https://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. The Regent also had a karaoke in the upstairs bar which wasnt very big. Great titles such as Peter Weir's "Picnic at Hanging Rock" or Reinhard Hauff's "Knife in the Head"that would never play multiplexeswere the norm there. 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. Main Street Northampton, MA . Both John Morris and John Marquis were also London Sports Editors and Chief Boxing Correspondents of major newspaper groupsMorris of United Newspapers (Yorkshire Post, Lancashire Evening Post and Chronicle & Echo) and Marquis of Thomson Regional Newspapers (The Scotsman, the Western Mail, the Press and Journal and The Journal). As children, my old man, and his 8 brothers and 5 sisters would live around the corner from where the pub stood. Anyway a gang of us would do the Kingthorpe crawl, this would have been around 1988/89. 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. Printing in Northampton ceased at the time of the weekly change in 2012 and is now done at the Johnson Press location in Peterborough. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. The Rifle Drum, known simply to us as the Drum, has been around since the 17th Century, and according to Dave Knibbs book it had a name change to the Crown for a while. Gold Street-Drapery junction, Northampton town centre, October 10, 1968. It is geographically the largest area of Northampton. This list is not exhaustive, of course, and we welcome you to add your missed places below in the comments section. 1970. Anti-Vietnam war demonstration on Boston Common. Photo: Bob Ramshaw. If you are using our Services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. Northampton. At least one member of my extended family can be found in here most Saturday afternoons. 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. The Silver Cornet, situated down the road from the Morris Man, was also visited by my family but I dont remember it being as often. In the 199495 English football season the company sponsored local team Northampton Town F.C. 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. Women would cross Drum Lane jitty into the Shipmans to use the amenities, you see, the ladies room in the Drum is upstairs, and the mens are down stairs. My Nan, Violet Hall, worked behind the bar in The Welcome, and my Uncle Dick used to drink there. Ladies would cross the road from the Friendlies, another Working Mens Club which sat exactly opposite, where they would play bingo in both of the establishments on the same night criss crossing the road outside. Gold Street is home to some beautiful buildings, Weve had a look through our archives to bring these great photos of Gold Street over the decades. More Local Journalism to Love Start today for 50% off Expires 4/30/23, George Lenker | Special to The Republican. That was in the Easter school vacation, 1960. Gone were most of the factories making shoes, the terraced rows of cheap tenement housing, with a pub seemingly on every corner. Some may have also been hand coloured in the traditional style, bringing an old scene back to life with even more realism. Because other articles have covered bygone bars and restaurants already, they are being are excluded from this list. Video, The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, Banana artwork in Seoul museum eaten by visitor, NFL player's daughter, aged two, drowns in pool, Ding becomes China's first male world chess champion, Indian 'killer' elephant relocated to tiger reserve, Explosion derails train in Russian border region, Trevelyan relative 'would consider' famine payment. Poet John Betjeman caught the mood of suspicion and disgruntled conservatism in his poem etc. I remember being taken there as a kid and the garden being really long, much longer than it looks now on maps. March 13th. But as a grew older and met more people, I realised that my family did things a little bit different from most. . A total of 15,655 new homes were built between 1970 and 1985, including on the Thorplands estate, The Barclaycard building on Marefair was vacated in the late 1990s and replaced by Sol Central in 2002, Bellinge Ponds, part of the 1974 Bellinge development, is part of five hectares of woodland, New estates like The Arbours were built using 205m on development corporation money, People moved from London and Birmingham to new homes on estates like Bellinge, Brackmills was built as a distribution centre, partly to counter the decline of the shoe trade in Northampton, These homes at Weston Favell were among 7,000 to be built by private developers, Weston Favell's Emmanuel inter-denominational church is built on three floors in the same design as the south Bank theatres in London, Briar Hill was one of the areas promoted by NDCs cult hit "60 miles by road or rail", The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. 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. He said: "The important lesson is planning should involve the people who live here.". . My friend Lionel, one of Northamptons great characters, was the landlord at The Sportmans for a while, he also went on to manage the Duke Of York in Semilong for a bit, and the infamous Winchester Private Members Club in Grafton Street, a short lived place but etched into my brain for life. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. the pub started life in the 1700s calling itself The Roebuck. The Jenny Lind Motel Northampton, MA . I had two older siblings, loads of cousins, and dozens of Aunties and Uncles. 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VideoThe secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, LGBT troops take love for Eurovision to front line. Resident Bob Ramshaw has kindly shared photos he has found of the town from 60 years ago. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. How we came South Hadley. Northamptonians Featuring at its center, often crowned the ugliest building in the country, and with the nickname of the Gates Of Hell, was the Greyfriars Bus Station. Established in 1968, NDC spent 205m building vast new housing estates. It had a pool table which I remember as always being busy. NRA 45012 WH Johnson, sports outfitter and furnishing ironmonger of Northampton. Eventually closing its doors around 2013. The Duke Of York went through a renovation at some point after I stopped going, and became an open plan bar, I preferred the old style pub with the separate rooms. He said people arriving from "crowded inner city areas" such as the East End of London and Birmingham to "an attractive green field site" had benefitted greatly from the expansion process. 1971. In fact, diverse group of people worked in the 1970s and early 1980s to raise awareness about sexual harassment and to create legal remedies. Billing is a civil parish in eastern Northampton in England, covering the Great Billing, Little Billing, Ecton Brook and Bellinge areas. Returning to the town I remember it as being like one of those bar fights you would see in an old western film. Im guessing we were around 10 years old. Dancing to Motown round and round in a circle ? The grown-ups would take the court in the seating under the windows at the front and play a massive game of Bastard brag. Briar Hill, Camp Hill and East and West Hunsbury were built in the south. 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. Not much has changed about roadside farmstands in Massachusetts. I have memories of a couple of tug of war battles that took place over the mill, this was before the new bridge was put in. I remember my Dad and his brothers standing at the Hotel End, drinking pints from the County Tavern, I think there was a hatch that you were able to get pints from without leaving the County Ground. It was called Roland Holloway's Northamptonshire, Fifty Years of Photographs 19241974, published by Northamptonshire Libraries. Youd go down the jitty that led round the back, knock the window, and be let in that way through the kitchen. type a type Betjeman detested. Take a look back at amazing photos of a thriving Northampton town centre in the 1960s and 1970s. It then began to publish one edition per week each Thursday for 1.00 (2014: 1.20) (2015: 1.30) (2016: 1.40) (2017: 1.45) (2018: 1.50) (2019: 1.60). But by the late 1960s and into the 1970s, this old shoe tayn with so many beautiful and distinctive buildings was changing. The Chronicle & Echo and its associated titles moved to new quarters at Upper Mounts. Amazing really, the old CB thing, 10-year-old kids talking to lorry drivers all night in their bedrooms?! 3. The shoe factory and his house were both eventually demolished, just another part of Northamptons modernization. Draw 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. August 1970: N/A Midfielders Billy Best : U: Glasgow 7 September 1942 (aged 33) 176: 40: Southend United: Summer 1973: Derrick Christie: W: Bletchley 15 March 1957 (aged 19) 19: 1: Apprentice: Summer 1975: N/A John Farrington: W: Lynemouth 19 June 1947 (aged 28) 72: 7: Cardiff City: Summer 1974: Graham Felton: W: Cambridge 1 March 1949 (aged 27) "It has completely changed," said Mr Lang. I couldnt find any old photos of the pub so this illustration is dated from a photo from the 1980s but I cant image it has changed in the last 150 years. Going to the Club on Sunday meant we lost our Sunday afternoons. Three went on to become authors and the fourth (Foot) a playwright. Pleasant Street Video This one goes hand-in-hand with the above item. It is now much smaller than it used to be. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. Every now and again on a Sunday morning, I was allowed to tag along and get a taste of the Sunday Lunchtime session. The Duke Of York went through a renovation at some point after I stopped going, and became an open plan bar, I preferred the old style pub with the separate rooms. Read about our approach to external linking. probably for placement in local hotels. The Sportsman Arms in Bath Street. Max and Di Lang moved to the newly-built Thorplands estate in 1972. Where youll find an article in the Chron. The Shipman family continued to run the pub until the early part of 1900s. You can find out more about this book by following the link at the bottom of this paragraph. Plus the neighbors on our terraced avenue would become more Aunties and Uncles, as was the way back then when the front doors were still unlocked and the road you lived on became an extended family. As a Bective lad (both Lower and Middle) I lived right on the edge of the permitted border to be allowed to say I was from Kingsthorpe. Blue Note Guitars Nestled in a basement just down the street from the Iron Horse, this shop got plenty of traffic from touring musicians. Lizotte's A tobacconist/newspaper shop. Anyway I was asked to play on Sunday afternoons, while people ate wonderful Sunday dinners. I adored DJing there every Sunday afternoon, playing a 4 hour set and drinking wine while reading the Sunday papers. 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. It was situated on the corner of St Andrews Road and Salisbury Street, in Semilong. 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. about 6 inches to the mile. week not bad for a 14-year-old at the time, when working men supported families on less than 20 a week. Did this woman die because her genitals were cut? I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. 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. A council house in Sunnyside, I am not sure if the post office use the Sunnyside as a district name anymore but it is still the name of the local pub. The Firefly was without doubt a local pub with a somewhat acquired taste. for me, as I had my first paid employment there, in one of those rooms at river level, looking out at the Nene through one of the windows. Photo Sales. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies - Rich Jones,phil collins,pink single-fud,nathan bundy and many many more as there was about 12 in the band. Like many pubs, The Drum, unfortuately, looks like it may have closed its doors for the last time. The main road was Sheep Street and the trams went up there, it wasnt until they widened Broad Street and pulled down surrounding buildings and pubs that things changed to what we have now. The Semilong Working Mens club was over the road and I used to enjoy going in there too. To watch classic match highlights & full list, go to.https://sites.google.com/view/gr8footyclassicmatches/home It is now some sort of bedsit place and looks a very sad sight. He said: "Within four hours of coming to Northampton we had a house and a job.". Starting in the Fox & Hounds (before the refit, I loved this old pub as it was, with the skittle spit and sawdust bar at the front and the carpeted saloon in the back, we would then hit the Old Five Bells, The Snooker Club (this was the only place I could get served as a 17 year old, an old babysitter of mine worked behind the bar and thought I was a year older! I operated a Okay, so the Overstone Arms was located on the Overstone Road near the town centre and was surrounded by shoe factories in a previous life. The Globe Bookstore Situated where Newbury Comix now does business, the Globe was a treasure trove of great books. rights and wrongs of this are. Northampton began to morph into the place we have now. Many people have forgotten the venues full correct title and it is often remembered simply as the Fanciers. The images I remember from the gentlemans afternoons cant easily be removed. I was also in there with my mate Cama, when I somehow wound someone chap up in the queue and a fight started, I spent most of the fight trying to retrieve Cams glasses that had been knocked off, when things settled down I emerged from under a table holding his unbroken glasses. 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 paper is owned by JPIMedia. Perhaps they were; but I am sure they also thought they were improving the place. I have happy but it seems slightly misguided memories of this pub. 197576 Football League Fourth Division, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=197576_Northampton_Town_F.C._season&oldid=1091109753, This page was last edited on 2 June 2022, at 07:34. 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. Valentine Low, a journalist on the Times, columnists Yvonne Roberts and Matthew Engel also worked on what is known locally as "The Chron". The Duke Of York had been a pub since the end of the 1800s. As a kid we would jump the turnstiles at the Wantage Road end, the Steward always let kids in for free or always let us kids in for free. I wasnt a fan of Cinderellas but did enjoy the Under 18s night on a Tuesday around my 13th birthday. Were you in a band or do you remember going to the. 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. NRA 45028 Johnson family, carpenters and joiners of Clay Coton and Welford. Which saw the wonderful Emporium Arcade demolished along with many more buildings and old Northampton pubs. I seem to remember we used to go from The Duke Of York, to the Half Way House working our way back into Kingsthorpe.
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