2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Maybe the most missed venue on this list. I would often go the opposite way to everyone else, bloody sheep. in 1978, I could hardly find Not only did it have an unbelievable selection of great films, the staff, led by owner Dana Gentes, couldand wouldtalk films with customers for hours. Dave Nilsen: 0412501: 149k: A cake is presented to President John F. Kennedy aboard the USS Northampton, 13 April 1962. The FireFly in Dallington (also known as the Red Earl). 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. ! 4. The Jenny Lind Motel Northampton, MA . 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. ), The Keep, The White Horse (or Dirty Donkey, coined by my mate Cama), The Cock Hotel, down to the village and the King Billy, up the hill to the Adelaide, another walk up the hill, pausing so Big Kev could be sick, and then back in the Snooker Club for last orders. But as a grew older and met more people, I realised that my family did things a little bit different from most. topology. Because other articles have covered bygone bars and restaurants already, they are being are excluded from this list. January. It is obviously targeted at visiting business and sales people. 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. 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. I cant remember much about this place except my family used to drink in there and it often crops up in conversation. The pub also had a music quiz but I cant remember the night it was on, but would go there with a mate of the ol man after a few beers in the Queens Park Working Mens Club. Sage Hall, Smith College Northampton, MA . The Globe Bookstore Situated where Newbury Comix now does business, the Globe was a treasure trove of great books. I was working as an Horology apprentice and Jim was a Silversmith apprentice and was a bloody lovely chap. Following massive clearance during the re-development of Northampton town centre in the 1970s, part of Campbell Street has disappeared and the site is now a car park. machine that put corks in wine bottles. The Virtual Attic Old buildings were demolished and new ones built; grand malls and parking garages replaced familiar streets; huge road-building projects altered the town's topology. Later this venue was to become a night club called Top Of The Town. Street map Smith College Northampton, MA . When I first starting drinking I liked going into the Overstone Arms, especially if I was on a date the booths were perfect for a liaison and quiet cosy. I have very happy if not blurry memories of Tops. 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. A castle where parliament would sit. Most of these folks aren't getting misty about the town when Calvin Coolidge was mayor, however. It had a circulation of 17,483 in the first half of 2010, a year on year decline of 7.8%,[6] and the decline continued into 2012. We offer IT/Web sessions to members on Wednesday mornings at MK Museum. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. It looked like a blummin spaceship had landed in the centre of tayn. The British Library, London. The couple's three bedroom house cost 5,500 and although they only stayed there six years, they remain in Northampton. 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 remember it as being like one of those bar fights you would see in an old western film. Northampton. (Lankester & Wells was a bottling company.) Anyway I was asked to play on Sunday afternoons, while people ate wonderful Sunday dinners. Taking the saw, he tried to concentrate and squint, the poor chap was so pissed he was probably seeing at least two saws. Wednesday 8th May 2019 at 7.30 pmRiverside Centre, Islington Road, Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 6AU. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Green's book The Art of Coarse Acting was based on his experiences as an amateur actor at Northampton's amateur drama group the Masque Theatre. Cite This Collection. 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. I have lovely memories of this place. Northampton began to morph into the place we have now. I seem to recall once chairs and tables were turned the right way up everything carried on as though nothing had happened. If it was a full County Ground a river of piss would wind its way down behind the Hotel End past Ansells burger kiosk, a full house meant the drains wouldnt cope. I moved to Semilong in my late teens and lived on Stanley Street, then Semilong Road, and then St Pauls Road. Best, on a mission to prove his detractors wrong, chipped. This is a street map that belonged to my father. It gained popularity as part of the Mounts triangle, which consisted of The Vic (as it was rebranded), The Garibaldi and The Lamplighter. townspeople wanted better So sang Linda Jardim in "60 miles by road or rail," the promotional track that helped attract thousands of people to make their new home in "Middle England". A big car park and sat opposite Dallington brook. 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. https://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. It wasn't all bad. March 20th. John Dickie was elected as a Labour councillor to Northampton Borough Council in 1974. We also visited the Spencer Working Mens Club which was not far from here. My Nan, Violet Hall, worked behind the bar in The Welcome, and my Uncle Dick used to drink there. I asked my parents and they said it probably did happen. The boys' school Northampton views through the ages! My fortieth birthday bash was in there too, but I weirnt well and had to leave early. After the pool finished the curtains would be drawn and we carry on drinking till the early hours and then get a couple of hours kip and up for work Tuesday morning. Far Cotton YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. 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. 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. If you lived in Northampton during this period you know that they ripped the heart and soul out of this old market tayn. date the transformation from the 1960 demolition of the Peacock Hotel, an old (17th century) coaching inn on the east You can find out more about this book by following the link at the bottom of this paragraph. 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. Image courtesy of the Holyoke Public Library. French Quarter hairdressing salon was at the opposite corner of the block of shops, I used to think that place was really exotic as a Bective boy, it looked like another world. Life in the town Back to the bouncers, I saw them beat up loads of people and a few mates. 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 all, 15,655 new homes were built between 1970 and 1985. 10 talking about this. 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. Another thing about the Club on a weekend was the Fish Man. This list is not exhaustive, of course, and we welcome you to add your missed places below in the comments section. The town of Northampton I grew up in 1945-1963 was completely transformed in the 1960s and 1970s. 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. Last Orders states that Whitmy & Shipman were selling wine and brandy from the property in 1827. Take a look at these captivating images from 1970s Massachusetts. The town of Northampton I grew up in 1945-1963 was completely transformed in the 1960s and 1970s. Im guessing we were around 10 years old. 2-inch map The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. By 1984 the population had mushroomed to 163,000. Not much different to how I imagined everyones childhood was. I adored DJing there every Sunday afternoon, playing a 4 hour set and drinking wine while reading the Sunday papers. It was already derelict in 1978, and was pulled down soon after. Main Street Records Ken Reid is a god to many local music types. I used to enjoy popping into this pub in my youth as it was a really old unique pub. HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON. I wasnt from Semilong but had been introduced to the pub by my future brother-in-law who lived on Leslie Road. Women of color and working class women were centrally involved in this struggle against sexual 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. Life in the town A big car park and sat opposite Dallington brook. 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. 1970. 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. USS Boston (CAG 1) is in the background. Unfortunately in 2016 The Victoria Inn definitely closed its doors for the very last time. 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. 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]. Where youll find an article in the Chron. 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. 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. Michael Green's novel Don't Print My Name Upside Down was based largely on his experiences at the Chronicle & Echo. National World Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. It had the barrel room and then the bar down one side. 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 . A few hours of sleep would mean we had the energy to go to the Working Mens Club later that evening. NRA 45028 Johnson family, carpenters and joiners of Clay Coton and Welford. By 1832 The White Hart Wine Vaults had appeared. Northampton. At least one member of my extended family can be found in here most Saturday afternoons. Returning to the town 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 had two older siblings, loads of cousins, and dozens of Aunties and Uncles. Opening the shop right after punk broke in 1977, Main Street Records was the go-to shop for releases by artists on the Stiff label and its ilk. I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. buildings were demolished and new The Fish Man wore an outfit a bit like a milkman and carried with him and a wicker basket full of little trays containing, prawns, cockles, whelks, crab sticks, and kippers for the morning. Gone were most of the factories making shoes, the terraced rows of cheap tenement housing, with a pub seemingly on every corner. All in the name of progress, and the lining of someones pocket. 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. Mason. It was built in 1977 by J. Roscoe Milne Partnership, and was called a blown up industrial product design aesthetic. On this page you will find places from my childhood and youth. 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. 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. During a career running from the 1920s to the 1970s, Roland took more than 80,000 photographs and attended 28,000 assignments. A place that could once boast as having the largest open market in Europe. 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). Its still opening now but a lot more trendy than back then. 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. The season covers the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023. 12 noon - 5 pm. My biggest memory of the Sportmans was one of my many uncles let me drive his Capri from outside the pub after an afternoon session there, I think we was heading to The Fire Fly. I had been djing for a while with two friends as Blackcatfound and always wondered if this influenced the name he chose?. What they are missing is the vibe of. I tried to find images of The Firefly but all I found was part photographs and press cuttings in the Chron calling it notorious. I met Dave recently and he is a jolly nice chap so please buy his book. Last updated: 9 April 2020. 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. I had two older siblings, loads of cousins, and dozens of Aunties and Uncles. Pay was 4 a It was published by the Northampton Chamber of Commerce, Dancing to Motown round and round in a circle ? Pictures include an unbelievably busy Abington Street, rows and rows of independent throwback shops and more. 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. . thumbnail here. Being railwaymen the Railway Tavern and the Pomfret Arms were locals. And as a 17 / 18 year old I would meet my friends here as it was a good place to start. 1971. Each illustration features a slice of my memory and I hope to keep adding more as time goes by. Great nights. See the results of your search on the right side. We had loads of lockins or harrys (harry afters) on Monday nights. Flickr/Wally Gobetz. This page is not available in other languages. 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. If you are using our Services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. 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). Browse our selection of vintage, retro and nostalgic black and white photographs of Northampton. 1971. All this before going to Top Of The Town, hopefully getting off with a girl, and then hitting Up All Night for food and if money allowed we would cross the road to the taxi rank or walking the 3 miles home. Up As I grew older I realised not everyone spent Sunday afternoon in bed! They would get you to the door and then throw you down the steps onto the concrete below. Pictures include an unbelievably busy Abington Street, rows and rows of independent throwback shops and more. Unlike Cinderellas, which was a night club in St. James, you didnt have to wear a shirt and tie! 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. There was some suspicion that the Parish History [edit | edit source]. The later entries in this timeline give a rough picture of the town's Copyright Paul Hillery 2021 All Rights Reserved, The Theme may use cookies to enhance your experience while using my website. South Hadley. Helen Blaby writes a general interest column. 1971. It had plainly been built fast and cheap.) 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. I continued to go to the cobblers on my own during my teens and it was a great time to be a fan. Much of what was done seemed pointless. Electric Pavillion, demolished 1920s Electric Pavillion, Gold Street (Image: Cinema Treasures) Little is known about this very early venture into cinema. Gregg Cave also booked wonderful folk gigs at this venue too, and The Northampton Folk Club would also meet here for a sing song. The stairs going up to that top bar were a bloody nightmare, and I saw people fall down them more than once. 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 remember this place having a stream at the bottom of the car park where me and my cousins would mess around after jumping the wall at the bottom of the car park. These instructions will show you how to find historical maps online. 46 Bridge Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060. info@historicnorthampton.org | 413-584-6011. 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. He was found in the cellar after cutting his own throat. There have always been talk that the property was haunted, some say by Harry Franklin who committed suicide there. [7] This was demolished in the late 1970s to make way for a shopping development. 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. I asked my parents and they said it probably did happen. student used to use it for storage, and I was inside the place several times. Delapre Estate I used to enjoy popping into this pub in my youth as it was a really old unique pub. 2023-24 . It was called Hamm tun, which means the village by the well-watered meadow. I have put on a few bands at The Garibaldi over the years and have played records there on occasion too. 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. place, whose shops, as I I remember it as being like one of those bar fights you would see in an old western film. Except one, my mate Jim who I worked with at Michael Jones. -inch map. The Sportsman Arms in Bath Street. It opened in 1897, and it featured two trolleys connected by a . Use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. 62 Friars Avenue The only nights we went there was on a Thursday night, as the DJ would play this exciting new music, Acid. Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun | BBE, Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume One | RE:WARM, Troubadourial transmissions from after sundown. Women would cross Drum Lane jitty into the Shipmans to use the amenities, you see, the ladies room in the Drum is upstairs, and the mens are down stairs. Yale Photogrammar/Russell Lee. The stairs going up to that top bar were a bloody nightmare, and I saw people fall down them more than once. I spent many a Saturdays there playing the table top arcade machine. I think it had a long single-story building and a larger more house like one at one end. Later it was called North Hamm tun, probably to distinguish it from Southampton. I remember my Dad and his brothers standing at the Hotel End, drinking pints from the County Tavern, I think there was a hatch that you were able to get pints from without leaving the County Ground. Places I wasnt old enough to drink. The 2022-23 season is Northampton Town 's 125th year in their history and the club's second consecutive season in League Two. My Home Page Loss. It became another of Northamptons old pubs that have been purchased by the dreaded property developers and is now a block of flats. . A glossy monthly, the Northampton Town and County Independent, edited by Bernard Holloway and the local author-editor Lou Warwick, was also published by the same company, which was once part of the United Newspapers group headed by Lord Barnetson. 3. The FireFly was, without doubt, a local pub with a somewhat acquired taste. Also my uncle, Richard Dick Hall, was landlord / manager for a short time. Some may have also been hand coloured in the traditional style, bringing an old scene back to life with even more realism. I have tried to find images of The FireFly but I cant find any decent ones. 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. The town, Sideways But Bill Davisons The Black Cat Jazz Bar was my favorite. As children, my old man, and his 8 brothers and 5 sisters would live around the corner from where the pub stood. Before it became a popular bar wed also go to the Pomfret down in Cotton. 5. 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. "It has completely changed," said Mr Lang. 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. Bastard brag is a variation of 3 card brag, 3 cards are dealt into the middle, 2 up and 1 is face down, the name is from the frustration players would feel when another player picks the card you wanted, and you bastard might be muttered or shouted depending on your mood and how inebriated you are. Did this woman die because her genitals were cut? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies - Rich Jones,phil collins,pink single-fud,nathan bundy and many many more as there was about 12 in the band. 1785 the pub was selling rums, brandies and wines. 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. type a type Betjeman detested. I wasnt old enough to drink. It was also when niche bookstores like Beyond Words could thrive. Bastard brag is a variation of 3 card brag, 3 cards are dealt into the middle, 2 up and 1 is face down, the name is from the frustration players would feel when another player picks the card you wanted, and you bastard might be muttered or shouted depending on your mood and how inebriated you are. It was published daily from Monday-Saturday until 26 May 2012 at a price of 0.48. You may spot some familiar placesand perhaps some unfortunately familiar haircuts. The Regent also had a karaoke in the upstairs bar which wasnt very big. The Northampton Chronicle & Echo (known locally as "The Chron") is a local newspaper serving Northampton, England, and the surrounding towns and villages. Insurance Plan of Northampton (1899): Key Plan 3 1 : 3600 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. Eventually closing its doors around 2013. I cant remember much about this place except my family used to drink in there and it often crops up in conversation. The book is a history and directory of Northampton Pubs and Inns trading before 1945. Amazing really, the old CB thing, 10-year-old kids talking to lorry drivers all night in their bedrooms?! Rothmans Football Yearbook 1976/77, p.270. According to my every trusty resource, Dave Knibbs Last Orders I have found out it was granted its first licence in 1877. Five College meeting of women teachers at Mount Holyoke College. Anyway I was asked to play on Sunday afternoons, while people ate wonderful Sunday dinners. 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. Old View Down Main Street Northampton, MA . Another memory is being taken to the County Tavern by me Dad. I seem to recall once chairs and tables were turned the right way up everything carried on as though nothing had happened. Northampton The town Sideways Life in the town The boys' school 2-inch map -inch map This is a street map that belonged to my father. You can scroll down to find more maps of The Firefly was without doubt a local pub with a somewhat acquired taste. and cheese. After this spectacle, it was back to the Morris Man for more beer. I used to like popping in to the old pub after visiting The Bat & Wickets to play bar billiards as it was one of the few pubs to still have a table. I can remember this as being a very smokey pub as a kid. NRA 45012 WH Johnson, sports outfitter and furnishing ironmonger of Northampton. Such a shame it just didnt stay open for longer. The shoe factory and his house were both eventually demolished, just another part of Northamptons modernization. He was born in 1905, the same year his father William Henry Holloway launched the Independent. FamilySearch. Lumbertubs was started in 1970, with Moulton Park and Round Spinney following in the east of the town. My Uncle Dick would have his head shaved once a year at the Friendlies to raise money for Cancer charities. Note that this map awards the name "River Nene" to the northern tributary coming down through Kingsthorpe.
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