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How do you capture a kingfisher?

There are many elusive creatures that I long to [...]
Walkin’ down the line

It will only have escaped your notice if you have [...]
British hare ways

It was a beautiful mid-May morning, clear with a [...]
How do you become a park ranger?

“How do you become a ranger?” – It is a [...]
The Nene is part of who we are

The writer Richard Mabey suggests that our sense [...]

The hidden war history of the Racecourse

Hilary Scott talks to an academic who is studying how The Racecourse was [...]
It was the end of the world as we knew it

In his second piece about Northamptonshire during the English Civil War, [...]
The lure of life on the open road

‘Uncle’ Eric Whitehouse has fronted many local blues combos [...]
The amazing adventures of Walter Tull

Tre Ventour examines the life and times of Water Tull… Today, there [...]
Discover Northampton’s hidden history

Historian Mike Ingram is offering guided tours of the historic heart of [...]
Northampton remembers the Holocaust

The Errol Flynn Cinema is screening The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas to mark [...]
The Hog, the Dog and the Cat

Why the Rose of the Shires should be the Shire of the Roses [...]
Magna Carta – the Northampton connection

Mike Ingram unpicks the role of Northampton in the Barons’ War and [...]
The Pomfret: a series of hipster-based coincidences

Barney Felce tells the story of The Pomfret Arm’s journey from [...]
Queen Eleanor’s Cross – a love story

Alarming pictures of Northampton’s Queen Eleanor Cross overgrown [...]
Hide inside: a look into the centre for leather excellence

You can’t help a wry smile when you say it: Northampton is the world [...]
Cafe and community are key for Vintage Retreat

Paula of Vintage Retreat recounts the story of the emporium’s [...]
Fiori Musicali: beautiful music in the heart of Northamptonshire

Peter Dennis talks about one of the county’s cultural hidden [...]
What is the enduring appeal of Stoke Bruerne at War?

Roger Hasdell, Mick Butler, and Lynda Payton (Friends of The Canal Museum) [...]
Civil disobedience broadened my horizons

Eric Whitehouse recalls what it was like staging a demonstration in [...]

Bill’s may be a chain but a good shopping hideout

We usually give priority on our eating out experiences in NQ to [...]
Tap and Kitchen’s an odd modern mixture

WE needed an excuse to move further afield from the county town to [...]
Mother lovin’ noodles

Let me show you what mountain bikers eat, I said to my daughter as we [...]
Delapre’s Orangery has improved 18-months on . . . but still not for dogs

Back in August 2017 we wrote about the huge redevelopment that had been [...]
Elwes lunch was a traditional treat

The search for Penda’s perfect Sunday lunch has become a bit of a quest [...]
They have changed the menu at Buddies!

Towards the end of the last century I arrived in Northampton as a [...]
Review: Posh picky bits at the Bread and Pullet

THERE’S a signature dish enjoyed at Casa Penda known as ‘Picky [...]

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