Battle of Northampton memorial walk
The annual Battle of Northampton memorial walk is tonight. Historian Mike Ingram will lead a tour of the battlefield from 7pm, starting at Queen Eleanor’s Cross where a [...]
History
The lure of life on the open road
‘Uncle’ Eric Whitehouse has fronted many local blues combos but he also has an ear for a story… On the back of the CD, there’s a small picture of a guy [...]
How war and life as a refugee inspired me
Proprietor of LeSpice Merchant Imran a. Chowdhury describes the long journey that ended with him working in and serving the community of Northamptonshire… The journey [...]
When Billing Road Cemetery was big business
Retired landscape designer Christine Whittemore of Northampton Heritage Hunters looks at the history of Billing Road Cemetery… In the mid-19th century churchyards had [...]
It was the end of the world as we knew it
In his second piece about Northamptonshire during the English Civil War, Mike Ingram takes us back to June 1645, when the future of the nation was decided at the Battle of [...]
Northamptonshire’s hot protestants and the Great Rebellion
Mike Ingram looks at the county’s part in the English Civil War… The ‘Great Rebellion’ better known today as the English Civil War began on 22 August 1642. [...]
A class act: what Dodd did and didn’t do
Andy Shaw recalls working with a showbiz legend… More than several, but fewer than many years ago, I harboured an aspiration to be ‘The World’s Greatest Drummer’. [...]
Civil disobedience broadened my horizons
Eric Whitehouse recalls what it was like staging a demonstration in Northampton… I’ve always taken an interest in what schools now call ‘current affairs’, [...]
Bill Urquhart – the brewer who started a micro revolution
Alaric Neville of the modern Phipps brewery tells the story of the last head brewer of the old Phipps brewery and his determination to keep beer real… In the 1950s and [...]