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Sandhills/Middle Turn (commonly known)

Spratton, Village c1955

To the left of this picture was a cul-de-sac called Sandhills.  My Aunty Grace and uncle and family lived here, so did my mother Margaret Anderson at some stage and later various cousins.  Down the bottom to the right was the original local shop (known Gammidges? when my Mother was small) owned by Greenwood for many years later (and when I knew it).  My Aunty Grace worked there until retirement along with Doreen my mother's cousin - many happy memories as a child calling in for the local groceries and rhubarb and custard boiled sweets from the jar.  Now a huge supermarket.

At the bottom facing us was Corry's, a small corner sweet shop/grocery store.  Known by the same name ...read more here
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Going to work at Tattersall's

Spratton, the Village c1955

I was born in 1953 in Northampton.  Later my family moved and settled in Essex but my childhood was spent in Spratton with my Nana Anderson.  She worked at Mr Tattersall's as a housekeeper and during the holidays I would go down with her.  Tattersall's house was situated a little further down from Saul's butchers which is seen here on the right of the photo.  This lane I think was called Brixworth Lane.  Does anyone remember Mr Tattersall - an educated person, with travel, the arts, and connections with the art world, (I think retired schoolmaster), a little eccentric.  His house was like an Aladins cave of interest and mystery to a small child.  My Nana worked for Tattersall for many ...read more here
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Margaret and Julie

Spratton, the Church c1955

Margaret Anderson and Edward Gill married 8th October 1949 last to be married by the 'blind' vicar (does anyone remember his name I think it was Pettit) while it was named St Luke's. The name of the church was changed from that year.

Julie Gill-Frisby - I walked past this church many times when my Nana Anderson walked to work at Tatersalls just down the hill.
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my family

I have traced my family back to Yelvertoft in the mid 1700's.  My family name is York and we are descendants of Thomas York who married Elizabeth Perkins in the late 1700's in Yelvertoft.

If you can help me go further back or are related in any way please contact me.


THANKS
A memory of Yelvertoft contributed by john york

Extracts From Naseby & Northamptonshire books

Naseby, the Monument c1960

A little north of the attractive village of Naseby, on the Market Harborough road, this 40 ft high stone obelisk commemorates the Battle of Naseby at which the New Model Army routed the Royalists in 1645, towards the end of the English Civil War. Fairfax’s New Model army assembled here before descending to the battlefield. The monument was erected in 1823 by the local lord of the manor.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".

Northampton, Market Square c1950

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".

Northampton, Abington Park Bandstand 1922

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".

Duston, British Timken c1955

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".

Northampton, Park Avenue Methodist Church c1960

Churches were built to serve the suburbs north of Abington Park. This view shows the most striking, the Park Avenue Methodist church, a typical design by George Baines and Son, which dates from 1924. These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here. A Baines church usually had a strikingly hand- some tower, as this one does.
An extract from from"Northampton Town and City Memories".