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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
Contributed by john york
Northamptonshire memories
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
2 Rugby Road, Lilbourne
This was the first house my husband and I bought together - we got married in it, and had our first daughter there. We stayed until 2002 - a gorgeous cottage, which we sadly outgrew.
A memory of Lilbourne contributed by Christina Gamble
Sandhills/Middle Turn (commonly known)
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
A memory of Spratton contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From Yelvertoft & Northamptonshire books
We are looking westwards
along the Grand Union Canal
on its way to Birmingham, at
point where it originally joined
the Oxford Canal. This junction
was later moved further on,
and the ‘cut’ to the left became
the entrance to the ‘pound’. The
building on the left is the Stop
House, where boats would stop
to pay their tolls as they moved
from one canal company canal
to another. The ‘Belmont’ (centre
left) is the butty to the ‘Stanton’
(next to it), belonging originally
to Barlows. Butties were the un-
powered boats towed by their
powered partner.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
The marina was
originally a reservoir
to maintain levels
in the Grand Union
Canal; it was also
used as a pound to
moor working boats.
Water was pumped
from here up to
the top lock. The
line of bushes and
trees in the middle
distance hide the
embankment of the
railway line, which
ran from Weedon
through Daventry
to Leamington.
The service was
withdrawn in 1959.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
This view of the Rec shows the steam engine hiding the terrace of houses known as Mount Pleasant. The building on the
extreme left is Stead & Simpson’s shoe factory, one of the last shoe manufacturers to survive in Daventry, once home to
many factories and craftsman. Steads’s factory has now disappeared, to be replaced by Tesco’s supermarket and obligatory
car park. Fortunately, the Rec still survives.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
Looking down New Street
to the Moot Hall, we can
see on the right a brick
Georgian house where
many BBC trainees lodged
in the 1960s. It is now
offices of the Rider Charity,
who supply motorcycles
for medical staff in Africa.
The building next door
with the central archway
was a timber workshop
which Jan Hupfield (née
Lodge) remembers visiting
regularly to collect sawdust
for her pet mice.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
Looking down New Street
to the Moot Hall, we can
see on the right a brick
Georgian house where
many BBC trainees lodged
in the 1960s. It is now
offices of the Rider Charity,
who supply motorcycles
for medical staff in Africa.
The building next door
with the central archway
was a timber workshop
which Jan Hupfield (née
Lodge) remembers visiting
regularly to collect sawdust
for her pet mice.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".