Article from The Daily Telegraph dated 22 August 1996Pamela Mills When an escaped prisoner tried to hold up a bank, he chose the wrong day and the wrong customer. Pamela Mills, a magistrate who was at the counter paying in cash from a street charity collection, turned...
Article from Stamford Mercury dated Friday 28 September 1860 On Friday evening last Wm Keach, aged 11, was killed under the following somewhat singular circumstances:- The boy was riding a horse belonging to Miss Martha Millar, for the purpose of bringing a load of...
Newspaper extract from Northants Evening Telegraph - Thursday 05 April 1900 Charles Beck (40), labourer, pleaded guilty to the charge that on the 3rd of February, at Burton Latimer, he did unlawfully and maliciously inflict grievous bodily harm upon Francis Louisa...
John Meads 2016 John Whittering's shop on the corner of Kettering Rd.and Bakehouse Lane in 1961 when in the occupationof BLICS. John's son Arthur J (Wittering) had it as ahardware and furniture shop until his death in 1947and the property was demolished in the 1990s...
Kettering Evening Telegraph circa 1980's Council groundsmanMr Vic Gater surveys the damageVandals have burned more than half the wreaths laid by the Burton Latimer War Memorial on Remembrance Day. The town's Royal British Legion president Mr AJD Peck said: "Whoever...
John Meads 2016 A 1980s photograph of the Preston Hall, where the boy hid from his pursuers in 1933 A remarkable series of thefts by a Burton Latimer schoolboy was revealed in a Children's Court at Kettering Police Court on Wednesday, in a case in which the defendant,...
John Meads 2015 - From the Northampton Mercury & Herald, Friday, March 22, 1935 The caption under this photograph published in the Northampton Mercury& Herald reads: "The damaged bus owned by Messrs. Timson and Son,of Burton Latimer"PASSENGERS INJURED IN BUS...
Extract from article in Northampton Mercury 05 July 1929School house home of George James TalbuttThe interesting question, when is a man in custody? was discussed during the hearing of a case at Northamptonshire Quarter Sessions today, before Sir Kenneth Murchison and...
Article from Northampton Mercury 04 June 1881 The Ise BrookOn Wednesday, the 1st last, an inquest was held at the Horse and Groom, Burton Latimer, before J T Parker, Esq. on the body of Thomas Weston, a young man, who wa drowned that evening while bathing in the Ise...
Newspaper extract from Huntingdon, Bedford & Peterborough Gazette, Saturday 14 January 1832 Willliam Smith, a dealer in old iron and chandlery at Burton Latimer, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment, charging him with stealing 29 horse-shoes, the...
Extract from Northampton Mercury - Friday 16 February 1912 At Kettering Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr J A Gotch and other magistrates. William Joseph Kent, butler, Burton Latimer, was charged with stealing £31 5s, the money of Colonel George Harrison Champion...
John Meads 2013 The Horse & Groom, scene of the dispute over a cape during a dancein an upstairs room 1859. The pub is now the Olde Victoria. From the Northampton Mercury Sat 9 July 1859 Burton Latimer – Mary Ann Nichols, a single young woman, of Burton Latimer,...
Extract from Northampton Mercury Friday 27 February 1903 The Leicester Coroner held an inquest on Monday evening concerning the death of James Taylor Stokes, of Burton Latimer, who was found drowned in the canal on Saturday morning. Henry Stokes, of Burton Latimer,...
xtract from Northampton Mercury dated 15 Januaary 1853James Stokes v Edward Dickens, Burton Lattimer. Mr Rawlings appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Tennant for defendant. This was an action for £2 expenses, consequent on injuries received by plaintiff at defendant's...
James Wallis, who lived nearby,rendered assistance MOTOR ACCIDENT AT BURTON LATIMER Northants Evening Telegraph 9 July 1900 Yesterday afternoon two young men of Northampton met with a nasty accident near Isham Station. It appears that they were coming down the hill...
Article taken from Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.If a lesson could be learned from the killing of a defenceless old woman, then the tragic death of Mrs Winnie Love will serve as a warning to us all. The trial of...
Article taken from the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, dated October 15 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.Three men who killed Burton Latimer pensioner Winnie Love and the man who set up the crime were all jailed at Northampton Crown Court today. Sentencing the...
Article taken from local newspaper dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.Three Londoners were cleared of murdering frail pensioner Winnie Love by a jury at Northampton Crown Court yesterday. But all three were found guilty of her manslaughter on the...
Article taken from local newspaper dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.Frail widow Winnie Love would not have been brutally beaten and choked to death if she had stayed asleep as three raiders searched for her £3,000 life savings. But the 75-year old Mrs....
Article taken from local newspaper dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.The three men accused of murdering Burton Latimer pensioner Winnie Love were in search of easy money, it was alleged this morning. But it all went wrong when she woke up as the men...
Article taken from local newspaper dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.Three Londoners accused of murdering pensioner Winnie Love thought they had hit the jackpot when they found £1,685 under a mattress, it was claimed yesterday. One of the defenders...
Article taken from local newspaper dated 9th October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.Three intruders savagely attacked frail pensioner Mrs. Winnie Love, robbing her of her savings and leaving her to die in her unheated Burton Latimer bedroom, a jury at Northampton...
Article taken from local newspaper dated February 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton. Neighbours were shocked at the murder of the frail, inoffensive old lady. They knew Mrs. Love as a friendly but quiet woman who never spoke badly of anyone. She married in the 1920s...
Article taken from the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph dated October 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.The cousin of Winnie Love spoke to the ET about the kind hearted woman she had known since childhoodWidow Mrs. Jessie Law (74) recalled the happy times they had...
Article taken from local newspaper dated February 22nd 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton. Murder hunt detectives have arrested six more people in connection with the death of 76 year old Mrs. Winnie Love. The body of Mrs. Love was found at her home at 35 Station...
Article taken from local newspaper dated February 21st 1979, transcribed by Raylee Burton.An elderly woman was savagely beaten to death by intruders who broke into her Burton Latimer home. The battered body of Mrs. Winnie Love (76) was found bound and gagged at her...
This feature is a composite of a series of articles which appeared in a local newspaper in 1979. Transcribed by Raylee Burton. Police officers at the home of Winnie Love at Station Road. People of Burton Latimer were shocked by the brutal killing of an elderly...
John Meads 2012Number 44 High St the scene of the undetected crimeFrom the Northampton Mercury 27 December 1851 "BURTON LATIMER - A SKELETON WITNESS - A few days since, as some workmen were engaged in lowering a garden, in front of a house lately occupied by...
John Meads 2019 from the Northampton Mercury From the Northampton Mercury Sat 15 July 1857WEDNESDAY PETTY SESSIONS - KETTERINGJames Arthur and Mary Arthur, were charged, the former with having stolen a silver spoon, the property of Henry Hadden, at the parish of...
Article taken from The Northamptonshire Advertiser dated 29th November1968Children at St. Mary's School surround some of the pets given by various people to replace those cruelly tortured to death.Pets were cruelly tortured to death at a Burton Latimer school in a...
Article taken from The Evening Telegraph dated 25th November 1968The Headmaster, Mr Pringle, looks at the empty cage wherethe guinea pig Gussy was tortured before being drownedChildren were in tears at St. Mary's School, Burton Latimer this morning, when they were...
Newspaper article 16 January 1935 The arrow on this 1950 photograph shows where the lorrywould have been parked in Piggott's LaneThere seems to be no limit to the escapades of mischievous boys, and this was evidenced at Burton Latimer on Tuesday. Piggotts Lane, which...
Extract fromNorthampton Mercury - Saturday 25 October 1862 Burton Latimer Joseph Whitney stood charged by James Osborne Inspector of Police, Kettering with having on the first instant in the parish of Burton Latimer ridden on the shafts of the wagon not having reins...
Original article taken from the Evening Telegraph dated 4th July 1965, transcribed by Sally Crane. The thieves, it is believed, broke this window in order to gain entry into the Rectory.Mr Sharpley points to the broken pane.While the Rector of Burton Latimer, the Rev....
Red Cow Public House on the High Streen circa 1925.Thomas Capps and George Dickenson were indicted for stealing £11, the property of William Bollard on the 15th of October. - Mr Sargeaunt was for the prosecution. - Mr W. Bollard of Little Harrowden, said on the...
John Meads 2020Revd. F.B. Newman with his family and staff. Is EdwardNunns one of the gardeners on the right of the picture? From the Northampton Mercury Aug 26 1871KETTERING SPECIAL PETTY SESSIONS AUGUST 19TH - Before W.S. Rose Esq. (in the chair) and Capt....
Rev. W.B. Jacqueswho moved to Orlingbury in 1911The Jacques were a wealthy family and following the death of her 49 year-old husband in 1913, Mrs. Jacques, seen here at Orlingbury, was able to employ a chauffeur.SERIOUS COLLISION NEAR BURTON LATIMER Stamford Mercury...
Article from Kettering Evening Telegraph dated 20 October 1992Ram raiders smashed into an electrical shop this morning and stole a hi-fi system. Police say thieves drove into the front windows of Arthur Turner Electrical Contractors in High Street, Burton Latimer, at...
Article from local paper dated 7 January 1980Gardener Donald Taylor became a hero yesterday when he tackled a raider at the home of financier John F. Nash. Mr Taylor (59) was working in the grounds of Mr Nash's Manor House home in Church Street, Burton Latimer, at...
Stamford Mercury, 17th April 1863Church St -1900's, looking towards Windmill Farm. This part of Burton Latimer is the location of Joseph Northerns house at the time of the incident. The cottages have been demolished.James Knight, 23, chimney sweeper and Charles...
John Meads 2017The Dukes Arms public house on the right where the troublestarted between P.C. Wright and George Willis in 1877From the Northampton Mercury account of proceedings at Kettering Magistrates Court 12 May 1877. Charge of Assault against a Police-constable -...
Kettering Evening Telegraph 27th October 1987 The scene in Burton Latimer befire the device was blown up by bomb disposal expertsA bomb disposal expert carries away a device Police were today hunting maniacs who have planted six home-made bombs in Burton Latimer...
Transcribed and researched by Janet Meads 2007Charles I, whose laws wereenforced at a local level bythe Justices of the Peace. In the early 17th century the king's government was of little direct concern to the townspeople of Burton Latimer; any matters relating to...
Extract from Northampton Mercury Saturday 8 April 1865 John Glover, master builder, of that village, was charged with stealing a quantity of oziers, on the 14th ultimo, vlaue 6s., the property of John Smith, basket maker of Kettering. Mr Murphy appeared for the...
Joe Maziak with son James and the reunited mascot Local businessman Joe Maziak featured in an Evening Telegraph report published 15th March 1980 when vandals damaged the company mascot. "Two heads are better than one... according to local engineering boss Joe Maziak....
Extract from Stamford Mercury - Friday 06 August 1813We last week recorded the conviction of Robert Kendell and Huffham White, for robbing the Leeds mail-coach, of whose guilt the connected chain of evidence of 38 witnesses afforded the most indubitable proof. The...
Researched and Compiled by John & Jan Meads, Dec 2005A sketch, purporting to be of Richard Sabey, published in Lloyd's Weekley NewsLouisa Johnson's murder pictured on the front ofthe Illustrated Police NewsMore sketches of the participants taken from the...
Isham Railway StationDuring the 19th century, shoe & boot manufacturing was the main industry within the town, and the county. As with all trades, there was the opportunity to take advantage of certain situations. The nature of working practices of shoe...
John Meads 2020 - Original documents: National Archive and Find My Past Home Secretary Lord Pelham At Northampton in October 1802, John Ball, a 42 year-old mason and a member of the Ball family that were to be masons and builders in Burton Latimer right up to the end...
Article from the Northampton Mercury dated Friday November 4th 1924School House, scene of the 1924 robbery, when lived in by Joseph Boardman, a predecessor of George Talbutt, who was head teacher at the Church SchoolAlfred Line (22), shoe operative, was charged with...