Errol Flynn & Auntie Em
Thanks to Kay Medway for submitting this poem recounting her memories of her Auntie Em working in the theatre in Northampton in the ’50s and making a famous friend along […]
Bauhaus – Memories from the Recording Studio
My name is Mrs Mavis Tompkins and I’m the widow of the late Derek Tompkins, who owned Shield Recording Studios in Kettering, and Beck studios in Wellingborough. It was my […]
The Wombles at Weston Favell Shopping Centre
I was 18-months old when my Mum took me and my brother to the grand opening of a brand-new shopping centre on the outskirts of Northampton in 1974, Weston Favell […]
Bus journeys in Northampton
Approx. 1970. The memory of catching a double decker bus with my mum, that would drive from the town centre up to the Weston Favell area and drive around the […]
The Politics of Roundabouts in Corby!
I worked for Northampton Borough Council from 1967-73 when the town was expanding. In 1973 I moved to the County Council in the County Surveyors Depot and one of the […]
Eighties Live Music Scene in Northampton
I first arrived in Northampton as a schoolteacher, but very quickly got involved in the local music scene, not as a musician, but as a writer! I felt that the […]
Corby Memories
It was a cold January day in 1953 and I was a ten-year-old dreading what the future had in story. My father had transferred from the steelworks at Barrow in […]
Corby belongs to me
I be lang to corby ****************** It was in Scotland April 1968 I was 5 years young I was just starting primary school St Timothy’s in Coatbridge Lanarkshire meanwhile in […]
Northampton – ‘Is the love in my fairytale.’
I remember vividly the minute that I heard that my family and I were moving to some place called Northampton as I decided to hide under the Habitat chair in […]
Family connections to the Northampton shoe industry
My grandmother told me, literally on her death bed, “I used to make boots, you know.” No, I didn’t know. I knew that the vast majority of my family for […]
