Queen Eleanor's Cross Perhaps they were; but I am sure they also thought they were improving the place. the north bank of the Nene just west of South Bridge. So it became a bit of a local, especially around the time my mate Lionel, who was the landlord at The Sportmans, took over running the pub. This page is not available in other languages. It is situated in Bailiff Street, opposite the Vocal, behind the Mounts and used to be frequented by undercover policemen as it was behind Campbell Square. I seem to remember we used to go from The Duke Of York, to the Half Way House working our way back into Kingsthorpe. 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. As we were sawing the wooden box to make the seating area of the cart a drunken chap appeared in the drive. 1971. I remember the lovely shiny green tiles of this pub that still sticks in my mind even through the smokey haze of all the pubs back then. The only nights we went there was on a Thursday night, as the DJ would play this exciting new music, Acid. The Emporium Arcade The Chron's main competitor is the weekly Northampton Herald & Post (circulation 45,582)[4] which is free and delivered throughout the town and surrounding areas but in comparison is lighter on news and heavy on advertising. Mr Dickie identified problems with signage around the new estates, parts of which are now ranked among the 20 per cent most deprived areas in the country, and he said the "old town folk" saw the expansion as a "sort of imposition". Wednesday 8th May 2019 at 7.30 pmRiverside Centre, Islington Road, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 6AU. Were you in a band or do you remember going to the. This page is not available in other languages. Every Sunday evening we were there at the disco in the concert room, we went there until it closed in the late 80s. Some of the buildings that were pulled down, needed pulling down. Northampton, Sideways My old man, Henry, or air Billy, had a big family and they all lived in Northampton. Read about our approach to external linking. With his hand holding on to the wood to steady himself he continued to nearly saw his finger off. Anti-Vietnam war demonstration on Boston Common. Image courtesy of the Holyoke Public Library. The staples of Northamptonshire's industry at the beginning of the 19th century were wool, lace, silk and shoemaking. 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 . I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. 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. NRA 44977 Joseph Pitts, pork butcher, Northampton. We had loads of lockins or harrys (harry afters) on Monday nights. I adored DJing there every Sunday afternoon, playing a 4 hour set and drinking wine while reading the Sunday papers. 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. Northampton Chronicle and Echo. The song, originally part of an advert that blasted its way out of car stereos across London, proved so popular that Northampton Development Corporation (NDC) released it as a single. Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun | BBE, Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One | RE:WARM, Troubadourial transmissions from after sundown. Dave Nilsen: 0412501: 149k: A cake is presented to President John F. Kennedy aboard the USS Northampton, 13 April 1962. Places Among those encouraged to come to the new town were former servicemen and Mr Lang had been a Navy man. But Bill Davisons The Black Cat Jazz Bar was my favorite. Smith College - Alumnae House Northampton, MA . 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. My Mums family, the Halls, used to drink here, I think it was one of the nearest clubs to the shoe factories they worked in. It had a pool table which I remember as always being busy. Pleasant Street Theatre Along with the Academy of Music, Pleasant Street Theatre exposed multitudes of Western Massachusetts folks to foreign films. He said: "Within four hours of coming to Northampton we had a house and a job.". The town of Northampton I grew up in 1945-1963 was completely transformed in the 1960s and 1970s. The fall bounty of pumpkins, squash and fruit is piled high beside the road. But Bill Davisons The Black Cat Jazz Bar was my favorite. Which saw the wonderful Emporium Arcade demolished along with many more buildings and old Northampton pubs. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. It looked like a blummin spaceship had landed in the centre of tayn. You sometimes hear people longing for the Northampton of old. The landlord at the time was called John, and a family friend, and Northampton fac,e Paul Little worked the bar some nights. Briar Hill, Camp Hill and East and West Hunsbury were built in the south. Northampton. Unlike Cinderellas, which was a night club in St. James, you didnt have to wear a shirt and tie! Museum Hours. Three went on to become authors and the fourth (Foot) a playwright. Loss. Gradually the name changed to Northampton. These plans were made for most important towns and cities of the British Isles at the scales of 1:480 (1 inch to 40 feet), as well as many foreign towns at 1:600 (1 inch to 50 feet). Me and some of my cousins would try and sneak a bottle of cider and can of lager from the kitchen and make snakebites in my cousins bedroom. I have put on a few bands at The Garibaldi over the years and have played records there on occasion too. I tried to find images of The Firefly but all I found was part photographs and press cuttings in the Chron calling it notorious. Where youll find an article in the Chron. 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. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. 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. Pleasant Street Video This one goes hand-in-hand with the above item. https://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. A big car park and sat opposite Dallington brook. In 1971, Northampton was home to 130,000 people. January. A claim to fame is that snooker player Alex Hurricane Higgins used the Friendlies for his base when he played in the World Snooker Finals, played at the Derngate during the 1980s. etc. He now operates Boomerang Books. A place that could once boast as having the largest open market in Europe. The game features the legendary George Best scoring 6 goals and settin. Also my uncle, Richard Dick Hall, was landlord / manager for a short time. Returning to the town I seem to recall once chairs and tables were turned the right way up everything carried on as though nothing had happened. Life in the town . Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, are 10 places missed by Northampton natives and visitors alike. Maybe the most missed venue on this list. A few hours of sleep would mean we had the energy to go to the Working Mens Club later that evening. You see after the old man got home from the pub and we had eaten our Sunday dinner we would be sent to bed. Gregg Cave also booked wonderful folk gigs at this venue too, and The Northampton Folk Club would also meet here for a sing song. I seem to recall once chairs and tables were turned the right way up everything carried on as though nothing had happened. I grew up there in a council house during the 1970s. I always had problems with the PA at The Lamplighter, it was a right pain in the arse if Im honest. It was part of Bill Davisons Purplehaus empire, which consisted of the Roadmenders, The End in Far Cotton, and the wonderful and but short lived Black Cat Jazz Bar, have a look a couple of posts down for more info on The Black Cat. How we came 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 was working as an Horology apprentice and Jim was a Silversmith apprentice and was a bloody lovely chap. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. To view a section in detail, click on the appropriate You need to sign in to create a shareable link. Referring again to Dave Knibbs wonderful book Last Orders I found out that The Victoria Inn, situated on the corner of Poole Street and Military Road, opened in 1875. We thought it would be fun to recall some popular shops and venues that vanished along the way for various reasons. Each illustration features a slice of my memory and I hope to keep adding more as time goes by. The trolley Elizur Holyoke passing through a rock cut on the Mount Tom Railroad, around 1900-1910. We offer IT/Web sessions to members on Wednesday mornings at MK Museum. It must have been around the late 70s early 80s when we drank there. The book is a history and directory of Northampton Pubs and Inns trading before 1945. It remained empty for a few years and then became a boxing club and is currently (November 2019) a Romanian restaurant called the Moldova. Dynamite Records With huge space in the basement of Thorne's Marketplace, Dynamite carried a wide inventory and was best known for great imports, especially odd prog rock and art rock titles, such as ones from Gong, The Art Bears, and Fred Frith. In all, 15,655 new homes were built between 1970 and 1985. It's not hard to understand the demise of that sort of animal in today's world. [7] This was demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a shopping development. 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. The title was the result of a 1931 merger of two dailies: the Northampton Daily Chronicle and Evening Herald (founded 1880) and the Daily Echo (founded in 1885 and retitled as the Northampton Daily Echo in 1908), which occupied a striking art deco office building overlooking Northampton's famous market square. You can selectively provide your consent below to allow such third party embeds. Note that this map awards the name "River Nene" to the northern tributary coming down through Kingsthorpe. The Chronicle & Echo and its associated titles moved to new quarters at Upper Mounts. The Northampton based McManus Pub Company have owned the building since 2015 and they keep saying it will re-open again soon, 5 years seems a long time to be doing up such a small bar so lets hope it opens its doors again soon . The Ordnance Survey disagrees, giving the name only to the river flowing west-east from the Daventry heights (see Main Street Records Ken Reid is a god to many local music types. river. 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. On February 3 1965, Minister for Housing Richard Crossman announced that Northampton was to be one of a number of new towns offering housing to people living in poor conditions in London. The County reminds me of going to the cobblers. External. The map carries no date. Until 2015, the Chron issued a free version of the weekly Northampton Mercury with a circulation of 44,000 to compete with its rival.[8]. [1] Springfield Women's Collective forms support groups and publishes Small Arms. The Fox & Hounds was probably the closest pub to my house, that or the Sunnyside. With no indigenous coal supply, local industrialists relied principally upon natural resources for industrial processing, particularly wind and water. See my other project Northampton Dreaming. It was called Roland Holloway's Northamptonshire, Fifty Years of Photographs 19241974, published by Northamptonshire Libraries. Copy Citation. It had the barrel room and then the bar down one side. 1971. 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. Women of color and working class women were centrally involved in this struggle against sexual 2-inch map The boys' school The only nights we went there was on a Thursday night, as the DJ would play this exciting new music, Acid. "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries." Database with images. The Globe Bookstore Situated where Newbury Comix now does business, the Globe was a treasure trove of great books. I didnt know how to drive at the time!!! Five College meeting of women teachers at Mount Holyoke College. Among the Chronicle & Echo's most notable journalists were author Michael Green, who wrote The Art of Coarse Rugby, scriptwriter Alistair Foot, the Guardian's readers' editor Ian Mayes, chairman of the Sportswriters Association Barry Newcombe, former Boxing Board of Control general secretary John Morris, theatre historian Lou Warwick, and author and editor John Marquis (formerly of Reuters and Thomson Newspapers), whose books about the Sir Harry Oakes murder case and the Haitian tyrant Papa Doc have found an international audience. This place had previously been a nightclub called Fantasia. Flickr/majunznk. Gone were most of the factories making shoes, the terraced rows of cheap tenement housing, with a pub seemingly on every corner. I remember it as being like one of those bar fights you would see in an old western film. 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. You can scroll down to find more maps of 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). This pub was notorious because one of its landlords murdered a prostitute and hid her in the pub toilets. This list is not exhaustive, of course, and we welcome you to add your missed places below in the comments section. As children, my old man, Henry Bill Hillery who passed away 28th of June 2020, and his 8 brothers and 5 sisters would live around the corner, in a terraced council house on Merthyr Road, just yards from where the pub would stand. date the transformation from the 1960 demolition of the Peacock Hotel, an old (17th century) coaching inn on the east Very fond memories of putting on the band Torn Sail, they brought a Hammond organ and their own PA and it sounded fantastic, which for The Lamplighter made a real change. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. One of the Chronicle's sister papers in those days was the Yorkshire Post. 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. The scene in 2021: As explained in the previous post, the Mount Tom Railroad was a nearly mile-long funicular railway that brought visitors up to the Summit House at the top of Mount Tom. What they are missing is the vibe of. The website also use content and scripts from third parties that may use tracking technologies. 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. DJing support for Bonnie Dobson was also pretty special. The British Library holds a comprehensive collection of fire insurance plans produced by the London-based firm Charles E. Goad Ltd. dating back to 1885. 1971. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). The shoe factory and his house were both eventually demolished, just another part of Northamptons modernization. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Northampton Chronicle and Echo, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Alpert Mall and BU Beach, Boston University. . According to my every trusty resource, Dave Knibbs Last Orders I have found out it was granted its first licence in 1877. By 1832 The White Hart Wine Vaults had appeared. Im guessing we were around 10 years old. 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. Click here and draw a rectangle over the map to precisely define the search area. Reid was also a Kate Bush fanatic and her fans could get great imports from him. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. My old man and all his brothers worked on the railway. 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. To watch classic match highlights & full list, go to.https://sites.google.com/view/gr8footyclassicmatches/home He will take us into the 1970s with photographs to show the dramatic changes to our county town in that decade. Northampton Brilliant old photos of Northampton's Market Square and Newlands date back to 70s Do you remember when Northampton looked like this? For complete information about the cookies we use, data we collect and how we process them, please check our, Although I don't use cookies, WordPress and my Theme might use them to enhance your experience while using my website. It sparked a growth that continues today, with the 2012 census recording around 212,000 Northamptonians. This is a discussion group for the Northampton music scene in the 70s and 80s - the local bands and gigs and the bigger bands who came to town. buildings were demolished and new Max and Di Lang moved to the newly-built Thorplands estate in 1972. This is a street map that belonged to my father. The Shipmans sits opposite The Drum on Drum Lane and also had an entrance on the Drapery. It is odd to think back now but I had a gun pulled on me once in here, but thats another story. So my happy memories of the Overstone Arms was much more short lived than I remembered and most of my dating must have been done in The Lamplighter, as Dave Knibb says it changed names in 1988. 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. recall, didn't do much business. We seemed to spend the whole of our summers sat on the steps outside our front doors while the mum took turns to make the pot of tea and pass around the biscuit tin (Auntie Rose always had the best biscuits). Picture special - 59 photos of May Day celebrations from towns and villages across north Northamptonshire from the 1970s to the 2000s. By 1832 The White Hart Wine Vaults had appeared. Green, Foot, Marquis and Warwick were all at different times editor of the Chronicle's long-running daily 'chat' page, called Town Talk and County Gossip by Hamtune. A total of 15,655 new homes were built between 1970 and 1985, including on the Thorplands estate On February 3 1965, Minister for Housing Richard Crossman announced that Northampton was to be. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. It is now much smaller than it used to be. Another lost pub from my childhood was The Morris Man in Kings Heath. Life in the town 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. Northampton in the Middle Ages Northampton began as an Anglo-Saxon village. I moved to Semilong in my late teens and lived on Stanley Street, then Semilong Road, and then St Pauls Road. As already mentioned opposite The Gari was the Vocal & Instrumental Club, simply known as the shortened Vocal by many people in Northampton. I remember being taken there as a kid and the garden being really long, much longer than it looks now on maps. 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. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. . Northampton, MA . ones built; grand malls and parking garages replaced familiar streets; huge road-building projects altered the town's Award winning creative based out of Northampton, UK. 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. Best, on a mission to prove his detractors wrong, chipped. If my family was drinking there during the day, my cousins and myself would be free to run around Kings Heath dodging the, what seemed like, endless puddles of sticky carrier bags that the local glue sniffers had left lying around. 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. Main Street Northampton, MA . Over the years I have put a few bands on at The Lamplighter and had some great nights playing records with Dixy, and joining Big Gary and Jon for their Broken Shackle. It was already derelict in 1978, and was pulled down soon after. 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). On internal evidence, I would date it as 1959-60. Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. He threw me the keys and I got in the car and before I knew it I was rolling down the hill and straight over the St. Andrews Road, mounting the pavement opposite, missing all the traffic. The night club closed in 1991. It had the barrel room and then the bar down one side. Whalen's Office Supply Before the digital age took over everything, people needed paper, pens, ink, folders and the like. The images I remember from the gentlemans afternoons cant easily be removed. According to Dave Knibbs book Last Orders ( go and buy a copy ) the pub started life in the 1700s calling itself The Roebuck. It is obviously targeted at visiting business and sales people. I remember the pool table was on the left as you look at the illustration, in the 1960s it was a gated area but by the 1980s it had been extended to hold the pool room and the toilets. Northampton views through the ages! USS Boston (CAG 1) is in the background. Some may have also been hand coloured in the traditional style, bringing an old scene back to life with even more realism. It is situated in Bailiff Street, opposite the Vocal, behind the Mounts and used to be frequented by undercover policemen as it was behind Campbell Square. It was in 1767 that the new landlord changed its name to The White Hart. machine that put corks in wine bottles. To learn more, I thought my childhood was pretty ordinary. Also, older long-gone shops, like Woolworth's were not included. When I first started going there I was around 15 or 16 and a pretty good pool player and joined the Duke Of York pool team with my brother in law, I remember I wasnt old enough to drink at the time but if I won my match I would ask for a pint! 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!
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