I remember being taken there as a kid and the garden being really long, much longer than it looks now on maps. The scale of the printed map is I took pictures of some of the old landmarks still surviving, like the one on this page. 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! the pub started life in the 1700s calling itself The Roebuck. Every now and again on a Sunday morning, I was allowed to tag along and get a taste of the Sunday Lunchtime session. NRA 45012 WH Johnson, sports outfitter and furnishing ironmonger of Northampton. On Saturdays I seem to have a recollection of a drummer and organist playing in the top room, the concert room was not open on Saturday lunch times. The FireFly in Dallington (also known as the Red Earl). Northampton, Sideways Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. and cheese. 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. 2-inch map In a terraced house on Merthyr Road. The British Library, London. I have very happy if not blurry memories of Tops. Copyright Paul Hillery 2021 All Rights Reserved, The Theme may use cookies to enhance your experience while using my website. Also, older long-gone shops, like Woolworth's were not included. Gradually the name changed to Northampton. I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. The Heavy Crates vinyl junkies get togethers, especially the one where the building across the road caught fire and no one could leave the pub. I have divided the map into six sections for viewing. Its still opening now but a lot more trendy than back then. The grown-ups would take the court in the seating under the windows at the front and play a massive game of Bastard brag. Flickr/majunznk. 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 . We thought it would be fun to recall some popular shops and venues that vanished along the way for various reasons. My Home Page The couple's three bedroom house cost 5,500 and although they only stayed there six years, they remain in Northampton. You sometimes hear people longing for the Northampton of old. The grown-ups would take the court in the seating under the windows at the front and play a massive game of Bastard brag. Places In later years, Blockbuster Videos was next door to The Keep, before the whole place was torn down and the pub was buried under the new Waitrose carpark. The Shipmans sits opposite The Drum on Drum Lane and also had an entrance on the Drapery. The staples of Northamptonshire's industry at the beginning of the 19th century were wool, lace, silk and shoemaking. But for more than two decades, it was a haven for folks looking for high-quality, reasonably priced outdoor clothing and shoes. Read about our approach to external linking. It was a start of new subculture and the time for raves had begun. ones built; grand malls and parking garages replaced familiar streets; huge road-building projects altered the town's The Shipmans sits opposite The Drum on Drum Lane and also had an entrance on the Drapery. 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. Its interesting, see the story below, that the public toilets on Wood Hill had thought sufficient for customers until 1938, when they finally installed customer toilets for the first time and replaced the existing spiral stair case. It is now some sort of bedsit place and looks a very sad sight. Anti-Vietnam war demonstration on Boston Common. The Firefly was without doubt a local pub with a somewhat acquired taste. Gold Street is home to some beautiful buildings, Weve had a look through our archives to bring these great photos of Gold Street over the decades. https://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. A place that could once boast as having the largest open market in Europe. here) but no name at all to the northern tributary. 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. In One Head & Out the Other - Pete Heyworth, Matthew Felce, Greg Bull, Mark Davess View Down Main Street Northampton, MA . Unlike Cinderellas, which was a night club in St. James, you didnt have to wear a shirt and tie! Despite struggling against their lowly rivals for the first 20 minutes of the game played on 7 February 1970, United ran out 8-2 winners. Fourth stanza: That's pretty much what happened to Northampton. obscured the contributions of others. South Hadley. NRA 45028 Johnson family, carpenters and joiners of Clay Coton and Welford. etc. The Fire Fly in Dallington (also known as the Red Earl and The Dallington Brook). Parish History [edit | edit source]. Old A big car park and sat opposite Dallington brook. As a Bective lad (both Lower and Middle) I lived right on the edge of the permitted border to be allowed to say I was from Kingsthorpe. The main road was Sheep Street and the trams went up there, it wasnt until they widened Broad Street and pulled down surrounding buildings and pubs that things changed to what we have now. Source:[citation needed], .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}Win Bob said: Taken mainly in Abington Street in the late 60s or early 70s when Northampton was a busy, thriving town, with two Woolworths, a Marks and Spencer, British Home Stores, Littlewoods, Adnitts, C&A, The Co-op and Emporium Arcades. The town of Northampton I grew up in 1945-1963 was completely transformed in the 1960s and 1970s. Yale Photogrammar/Russell Lee. In the end, its paper trail ran out and it was taken over by industry giant W.B. Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun | BBE, Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One | RE:WARM, Troubadourial transmissions from after sundown. There was some suspicion that the side of the market square. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. 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. Best, on a mission to prove his detractors wrong, chipped. Women of color and working class women were centrally involved in this struggle against sexual Take a look back at amazing photos of a thriving Northampton town centre in the 1960s and 1970s. They had a small car park around the rear and I remember going up stairs into a room with a pool table and a long bar further into the building on the left hand side. 1971. The poem is supposed to be spoken by a sharp young executive rights and wrongs of this are. I seem to remember we used to go from The Duke Of York, to the Half Way House working our way back into Kingsthorpe. Follow this link to see the hand screen printed poster I did ! Electric Pavillion, demolished 1920s Electric Pavillion, Gold Street (Image: Cinema Treasures) Little is known about this very early venture into cinema. Those demolitions and "redevelopments" made a lot of people angry at the time. 1961 - 1970: 0412525: 12m: USS Northampton, (CC 1) refueling from port side of USS Elokomin (AO 55) as USS Newman K. Perry, (DDR 883) refuels from the starboard side. It had a disco at the weekends, Tim an older lad who lived near me was the DJ. Life in the town I adored DJing there every Sunday afternoon, playing a 4 hour set and drinking wine while reading the Sunday papers. Some of these pubs had been around for years and others newly built during the modernization that took place during the late 1960s and 1970s. In any case, towns must change and grow; and there's not much doubt that the 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. Anyway a gang of us would do the Kingthorpe crawl, this would have been around 1988/89. about 6 inches to the mile. Another of the company's characters was the photographer Roland Holloway, who worked on the Chronicle, Mercury and Independent for half a century. It is sandwiched between its neighboring buildings and might be the slimmest pub in tayn. I grew up there in a council house during the 1970s. Although a very popular pub these days, managed by Paul & James Hanna, and called The Lamplighter, it used to be a very different layout. 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. Each illustration features a slice of my memory and I hope to keep adding more as time goes by. Without further ado, and in alphabetical order, are 10 places missed by Northampton natives and visitors alike. The Semilong Working Mens club was over the road and I used to enjoy going in there too. It was in 1767 that the new landlord changed its name to The White Hart. The FireFly was, without doubt, a local pub with a somewhat acquired taste. He came over with a can of beer in one hand and a fag in the other, Er let me have a go! he said. It was closed in 2008 after being open for just 8 years. Sage Hall, Smith College Northampton, MA . The fall bounty of pumpkins, squash and fruit is piled high beside the road. To learn more, I thought my childhood was pretty ordinary. Flickr/Wally Gobetz. 1785 the pub was selling rums, brandies and wines. This place had previously been a nightclub called Fantasia. I remember the shoe factory my Nan used to work in was nearby and my Uncle Richard, or Dick as he was known, lived on Thomas Street, just up from the Vocal. Later this venue was to become a night club called Top Of The Town. 1971. [1] CASTOR (St. Keneburgha), a parish, in the union and soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county of Northampton, 4 miles (W.) from Peterborough.. Resources [edit | edit source] Find Neighboring Parishes [edit | edit source]. Northampton, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, in the Midlands region of England. It was also known as The Regent, I had my first taste of hearing acid house at this venue. In the 199495 English football season the company sponsored local team Northampton Town F.C. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. for me, as I had my first paid employment there, in one of those rooms at river level, looking out at the Nene through one of the windows. Being railwaymen the Railway Tavern and the Pomfret Arms were locals. Up I have tried to find images of The FireFly but I cant find any decent ones. He was found in the cellar after cutting his own throat. ! Anyway I was asked to play on Sunday afternoons, while people ate wonderful Sunday dinners. Returning to the town The pub looked shut from the outside, it was always pretty early and the first stop on the Sunday Lunchtime sesh. National World Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. It was in this new dystopian market tayn that myself and my many cousins would be dragged along, looking forward to afternoons of adventures, while the family moved from pub to pub and club to club, as venues shut down, lost favour, or someone was barred. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). 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. You may spot some familiar placesand perhaps some unfortunately familiar haircuts. Okay the earliest image I have found of this building was dated 1904 and shows how Regent Square looked back then. Opened in 1982 by John and Patricia Riley, who now own Gabriel Books on Market Street, it was bought by Mark Brumberg who ran it until 1997. The shoe factory and his house were both eventually demolished, just another part of Northamptons modernization. I have tried to find images of The FireFly but I cant find any decent ones. Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? recall, didn't do much business. If you want to see the images without the waffle follow this link. Because other articles have covered bygone bars and restaurants already, they are being are excluded from this list. I wasnt from Semilong but had been introduced to the pub by my future brother-in-law who lived on Leslie Road. Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. March 20th. You could grab a decent, cheap, second-hand Telecaster thereor a vintage guitar costing thousands. That was in the Easter school vacation, 1960. Which saw the wonderful Emporium Arcade demolished along with many more buildings and old Northampton pubs. It is obviously targeted at visiting business and sales people. Such a shame it just didnt stay open for longer. But I remember the old style booths it once held and the soft furnishings, and the different levels to the flooring, plus the toilets used to be downstairs which I liked, especially if I was DJing in there as I could get to the loo and back whilst a 45 played out, I had to put on an extended mix to get up the stairs and back when the layout changed. 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. See my other project Northampton Dreaming. I wasnt old enough to drink. Picture special - 59 photos of May Day celebrations from towns and villages across north Northamptonshire from the 1970s to the 2000s. I first remember this building from the bus stop outside, what I mean is the number 36 bus from Kingsthorpe, on a Saturday morning to go and meet my Nan in Lawrences on St. Giles Street for a Towcester Cheesecake, before going to the market and Fish Market before coming back home. 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. During a career running from the 1920s to the 1970s, Roland took more than 80,000 photographs and attended 28,000 assignments. I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. . Okay, so the Overstone Arms was located on the Overstone Road near the town centre and was surrounded by shoe factories in a previous life. I grew up there in a council house during the 1970s. It was published by the Northampton Chamber of Commerce, probably for placement in local hotels. On this page you will find places from my childhood and youth. topology. The town, Sideways Unfortunately in 2016 The Victoria Inn definitely closed its doors for the very last time. 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! Established in 1968, NDC spent 205m building vast new housing estates. As a kid I just remember it being sunny, we must have gone there when it was summer and the kids could run about in the garden, I remember butterflies and playing football out there. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Anyhow, I do remember being in there one dinnertime and it was while the Shipmans was shut (as it still remains now in 2019) an older lady couldnt manage the stairs and was given a bucket to piddle in, while everyone looked the other way politely. 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. . Taking the saw, he tried to concentrate and squint, the poor chap was so pissed he was probably seeing at least two saws. We still talk about the supper spread Lionel would make us when we sat in the saloon bar, on the Salisbury Road side, a silver platter with roast potatoes, pork pie (I hadnt gone vegetarian yet), scratchings (I loved them!) The Keep was built along with the Kingsthorpe shopping arcade in 1973, opening its doors in 1974. Most of these folks aren't getting misty about the town when Calvin Coolidge was mayor, however. On internal evidence, I would date it as 1959-60. Also my uncle, Richard Dick Hall, was landlord / manager for a short time. "I just can't wait to be in Northampton!". As I grew older I realised not everyone spent Sunday afternoon in bed! 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. A collection of his work was published in book form in 1985. With his hand holding on to the wood to steady himself he continued to nearly saw his finger off. I didnt know how to drive at the time!!! Fifty years on, the BBC looks back at how the announcement changed the town. I think it went all the way back to Kingsthorpe Rec. Tree Lined Main Street Northampton, MA . 12 noon - 5 pm. We had loads of lockins or harrys (harry afters) on Monday nights. Youll often hear the statement Did you know Bob Marley played the Silver Cornet but I have never met anyone who was actually there. Some starting with Permaquip and then for British Rail, and later some for Lionverge. 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. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc. They had 2 snooker tables down stairs and another bar down there with the skittles and darts. 1971. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. date the transformation from the 1960 demolition of the Peacock Hotel, an old (17th century) coaching inn on the east I used to DJ here on a Saturday night with my mate Dixy, Uncle Seltzers Kosmik Surgery spun plastic discs of joy for many lock-ins. 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". During the Me Decade, streaking expanded to become a "Me" activity, a way for a person to claim 15 minutes of fame. By 1832 The White Hart Wine Vaults had appeared. Many people have forgotten the venues full correct title and it is often remembered simply as the Fanciers. The back bar had soft furnishing and led out to the garden. NRA 30228 Kerr family, Marquesses of Lothian: family and estate papers. Queen Eleanor's Cross Reid was also a Kate Bush fanatic and her fans could get great imports from him. Frequented often as the railway yard was round the back of both pubs. I seem to recall once chairs and tables were turned the right way up everything carried on as though nothing had happened. The Virtual Attic Northampton Brilliant old photos of Northampton's Market Square and Newlands date back to 70s Do you remember when Northampton looked like this? 2023 BBC. I moved to Semilong in my late teens and lived on Stanley Street, then Semilong Road, and then St Pauls Road. During a career running from the 1920s to the 1970s, Roland took more than 80,000 photographs and attended 28,000 assignments. Together these maps provide a rich historical shapshot of the commercial activity and urban landscape of towns and cities at the time. Pictures include an unbelievably busy Abington Street, rows and rows of independent throwback shops and more. January. My old man and all his brothers worked on the railway. I had two older siblings, loads of cousins, and dozens of Aunties and Uncles. "We used to look out from London Road at green fields, now you have to go three or four miles to get to them. It was published daily from Monday-Saturday until 26 May 2012 at a price of 0.48. This one in Greenfield in 1939 looks just the same as any you'd see today. The later entries in this timeline give a rough picture of the town's The Regent also had a karaoke in the upstairs bar which wasnt very big. 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. I used to enjoy popping into this pub in my youth as it was a really old unique pub. 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. This "key plan" indicates coverage of the Goad 1899 series of fire insurance maps of Northampton that were originally produced to aid insurance companies in assessing fire risks. The bus would pull in at the stop adjacent to this building and the first sign I remember was the building being called the 101 Club upstairs and Shines bookmakers downstairs. It looked like a blummin spaceship had landed in the centre of tayn. Originating about 1100 as a walled town with a castle on the River Nene, Northampton was granted its first charter in 1189. My old man, Henry, or air Billy, had a big family and they all lived in Northampton. 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. Closed on holidays. change that drove the material It had other names too, some I remember are Sinatras, the short lived Hermans, which quickly changed to Macbeths, and it also became one The Cookie Club franchised venues. 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). I have the vaguest of memories of being in there one Saturday when a big bar room brawl happened. The game features the legendary George Best scoring 6 goals and settin. The Virtual Attic It is now much smaller than it used to be. Not much different to how I imagined everyones childhood was. The shoe factory and his house were both eventually demolished, just another part of Northamptons modernization. Boots new department store on corner of Gold Street and Drapery, Northampton town centre, September 12, 1959. 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 then found that my Uncle Benny & Aunty Glynis had a photo in their garden bar of the pub when it was called The Dallington Brook. I was working as an Horology apprentice and Jim was a Silversmith apprentice and was a bloody lovely chap. But as a grew older and met more people, I realised that my family did things a little bit different from most. The Mountain Goat This wound is still a little raw, as this Main Street destination shop just closed in 2013. A big car park and sat opposite Dallington brook. market square, whose demolition (to make way for the Grosvenor Centre mall) was so much lamented, was in fact a seedy Northampton. Around the 1960s the Victoria Inn closed its doors as a public house becoming the headquarters to the Northampton Nene Angling Club and for a short time the the Navy Club, before reopening again as pub in the 1980s. . Great nights. It became another of Northamptons old pubs that have been purchased by the dreaded property developers and is now a block of flats. Another lost pub from my childhood was The Morris Man in Kings Heath. The building footprints, their use (commercial, residential, educational, etc. As an additional note the Top Of The Town bouncers were on the whole a pretty horrible lot. My Home Page I cant remember much about this place except my family used to drink in there and it often crops up in conversation. I thought everybody spent their childhood dayn the pub, around extended house parties, and the Working Mens Club on a Sunday night. Amazing really, the old CB thing, 10-year-old kids talking to lorry drivers all night in their bedrooms?! Resident Bob Ramshaw has kindly shared photos he has found of the town from 60 years ago. You sometimes hear people longing for the Northampton of old. 62 Friars Avenue I wasnt from Semilong but had been introduced to the pub by my future brother-in-law who lived on Leslie Road. river. 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. The interior was a highly fashionable 1970s orange and brown. Lumbertubs was started in 1970, with Moulton Park and Round Spinney following in the east of the town. Image courtesy of the Holyoke Public Library. I was born in Northampton, at the Barratt Maternity Home, which opened in 1936 when the footwear entrepreneur William Barratt gave the hospital a generous donation. 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. . I have happy but it seems slightly misguided memories of this pub. At least one member of my extended family can be found in here most Saturday afternoons. The rose of the Shires. One of the Chronicle's sister papers in those days was the Yorkshire Post. 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. 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. 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. FamilySearch. This pub was notorious because one of its landlords murdered a prostitute and hid her in the pub toilets. As already mentioned opposite The Gari was the Vocal & Instrumental Club, simply known as the shortened Vocal by many people in Northampton. NRA 44977 Joseph Pitts, pork butcher, Northampton. 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). Yale Photogrammar/Russell Lee. The Emporium Arcade It was also known as The Regent, I had my first taste of hearing acid house at this venue. -inch map. It's the Lankester & Wells building, which stood on By 1984 the population had mushroomed to 163,000. There was a set of doors leading down the staircase into the underground pub. The website also use content and scripts from third parties that may use tracking technologies. As already mentioned opposite The Gari was the Vocal & Instrumental Club, simply known as the shortened Vocal by many people in Northampton. Browse our selection of vintage, retro and nostalgic black and white photographs of Northampton. HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON. It gained popularity as part of the Mounts triangle, which consisted of The Vic (as it was rebranded), The Garibaldi and The Lamplighter. Back to the bouncers, I saw them beat up loads of people and a few mates. . Not much has changed about roadside farmstands in Massachusetts. The boys' school Except one, my mate Jim who I worked with at Michael Jones. 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. It must have been around the late 70s early 80s when we drank there. Gold Street-Drapery junction, Northampton town centre, October 10, 1968. That part of the club was eventually closed off, as the Fire Department said it was a hazard and didnt have a working fire escape.
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