Article taken from The Wellingborough News 19th March 1915The employees of Messrs Buckby Bros, shoe manufacturers, Burton Latimer, decided not to return to work last Saturday morning. Representatives of the Shoe Operatives Union interviewed the employees.The firm...
Article taken from The Evening Telegraph October 23rd 1908Buckby Brothers, Burton Latimer, were summoned for a breach of the Factory and Workshops Act at Burton Latimer on September 25th by employing Clara Billingham, Arthur Randall, Ivy L Astley and Frederick Bailey...
Article from Mercury & Herald, 14 February 1958 transcribed by Margaret CraddockThe Coles Group will soon be boosting the production of men’s shoes in Kingston, Jamaica. As the result of a long association with a customer in Kingston, the Coles group are to absorb...
Please note: Whilst under construction the tables may not operate correctly on anything other than a p.c. Address Forename(s) Surname Qualifying Date Finedon Road Annie Mary WRIGHT 15 January 1918 Finedon Road Charlie WRIGHT 15 January 1918 Finedon Road Faith...
Please note: Whilst under construction the tables may not operate correctly on anything other than a p.c. Address Forename(s) Surname Qualifying Date Monks Cottages, 1, Duke Street Maria BLEANEY 15 January 1918 Monks Cottages, 1, Duke Street Mathew BLEANEY 15...
Please note: Whilst under construction the tables may not operate correctly on anything other than a p.c. Address Forename(s) Surname Qualifying Date Croxen's Yard James PARSONS 15 January 1918 Croxen's Yard Robert WARD 15 January 1918 Croxen's Yard Charles...
Please note: Whilst under construction the tables may not operate correctly on anything other than a p.c. Address Forename Surname Qualifying Date 1, Bird Street Sarah STURGESS 15 January 1918 1, Bird Street William STURGESS 15 January 1918 1, Bird Street...
Please note: Whilst under construction the tables may not operate correctly on anything other than a p.c. First Name Surname/Name Location (where given) Details Burton Latimer Urban District Council A E FOX J P, Chairman Urban District Council A...
John Meads - 2009The County of Northamptonshire Directory was published in 1967 and names the head ofhousehold but in a few cases, for no obvious reason, it names some of the other adulthousehold members. Shops, pubs etc. have been added to the list where known.Please...
Summary researched and compiled by John MeadsLike many other places, there is little written evidence to tell us what life was like in Burton Latimer after the Domesday Book had provided us with a ‘snapshot’ in 1086. 17th century Manor Court records and 18th century...
Willie Evans - killed in 1916 During the mid 19th Century, Ironstone Mining became established in Burton Latimer and the surrounding areas and was a significant industry within the locality until the 1920s. As with much of the heavy industry of this period, mining...
Transcribed by Sally Crane from local paper 10th October 1968Mr A V Morley with a display by Alumascof a beer barrel and shooting stickA beer canister formed part of the harvest festival offerings at Burton Latimer Parish Church last night. Over 200 people attended...
Article from Mercury & Herald, 14 February 1958 transcribed by Margaret CraddockA new interest has held the interest of a number of women, employed by the Coles Group over the last 16 months. Aged between 15 and 50, they are probably among the fittest of all those...
The windmill in the early 1900sThe contentious bridge in 1989, then known as Black Bridge just before its demolition to make way for the A14From the Northampton Mercury 20 May 1865 On Monday last, an inquisition was held at the Hind Hotel, Wellingborough, before Mr....
Article from Northampton Mercury dated 19th March 1915 A photo showing the aftermath of a fire which destroyed the Sudborough & Eady factory in the 20'sA map showing the location of Sudborough and EadyMessrs. Sudborough and Eady, boot manufacturers, Burton Latimer...
Transcribed from feature “Romance of Industry” – The Coles Group - in Mercury & Herald, 14 February, 1958.Famed throughout the footwear trade the world over, the Coles Group, which comprises eight factories in the Burton Latimer area and one in Jamaica, manufactures...
Article from Mercury & Herald, 14 February 1958 transcribed by Margaret Craddock.When the fire siren wails out over Burton Latimer, eight employees scattered throughout factories in the Coles Group immediately “down tools” and hurry to the Fire Station. One of the...
Article from Mercury & Herald , 14 February 1958 transcribed by Margaret CraddockMore than 900 employees and friends – an all-time record number – attended the recent Coles Group dinner and dance in the Pavilion, Wicksteed Park, Kettering. “It was a great success”...
Article from the careers supplement of Northants Evening Telegraph 14 June 1957A Young Employee receiving instruction at the Coles Group Factory at Burton Latimer.In recent years, the Coles Group of Burton Latimer – the largest private group of shoe manufacturers in...
Map of Burton Latimer in 1928showing the sites of the various clothing factories.Scroll down the page for further information and linksThe clothing industry arrived in Burton Latimer in the mid-1880s, about ten years before the first shoe factory was built in the...
Article researched by Margaret Craddock with assistance from Mr Nigel Coles and Mrs Diana Amey. Presented by Margaret Craddock.In partnership with Mr Frank Westley and Mr Joseph Whitney, Mr John Wallace Coles (who was Burton Latimer born and bred), founded the Coles...
Transcribed and adapted by Janet & John Meads from: “The Northampton Daily Reporter” 1895Burton Latimer Gas Company office at The Cross in the mid-1920s. With the development which the parish of Burton Latimer has undergone during the last few years, the...
William Batty in 19341923 aerial photograph of two-storey former maltings bought by William BattyWilliam Batty moved to Burton Latimer in 1924 from Lincolnshire. He set up his leather dressing business in Church Street in a set of buildings previously used as maltings...
Article from Evening Telegraph dated 8th January 1961William BattyMr William Batty, a 78-year-old founder of William Batty and Son Ltd the Burton Latimer leather dressers, (situated in Church Street) will be buried in Burton Latimer cemetery tomorrow following a...
Article transcribed from a local newspaper by Sally CraneNote - Joseph Westley died in January 1957"A bequest in recognition of a housekeeper’s kindness is made in the will published to-day of a retired shoe manufacturer Mr. Joseph Westley of White House, 18 Victoria...
Article transcribed from a local newspaper dated 14th January 1957 by Sally CraneDeath of Burton footwear firmfounder Mr. Joseph WestleyMr.Joseph Westley, who with the late Mr.Harry Whitney founded the Burton Latimer boot and shoe manufacturing firm of Whitney and...
The stable of breakfast cereals manufactured by Weetabix LtdWeetabix occupies an area next to the River Ise on the western edge of Burton Latimer. There has been a mill on this particular site for over a thousand years. It probably originated as a water mill to...
Report from Northampton Mercury 26 August 1876 transcribed by Margaret CraddockWallis had run the mill for about 20 years, mill working day and night. Ten pairs of mill stones used. Main building was almost completely destroyed with only the two end walls left...
Based on an article in the Northamptonshire Advertiser, 15th April 1960, transcribed by Sally CraneA bird's-eye view of Wallis and Linnell's as it stands today (1969) - a growing, serpentine tribute to the work of a kindly mystic and a warehousemanWallis and Linnell...
John Meads 2015The traditional way of shipping goods from Whitney & Westley's Finedon Street factory before the introduction of the railway containerThis National Railway Museum photograph shows a L.M.S. container being loaded on to a wagon at Euston goods...
John Meads 2019 from newspaper articlesChief Tshekedi Khama ofBechuanalandMr. G.E. Gilbert, the chief's hostIn 1933, many in Britain were shocked to learn that a Briton named Phineas Macintosh, a white wagon builder, who had been tried before a native Court in...
Article submitted by Tony Palmer 2006I was employed at the above shoe factory from mid 1955 to December 1956. At this time I was employed as a clicker, cutting leather shoe linings by hand. These were cut with a clicking knife which was a very unusual shape with a...
Adapted from an original newspaper article by Karen HadleyThe old Burton Mill on the River IseThis picture was first printed in "Down Memory Lane" on January 29 - it brought back memories for Dorothy Denton, 71, of Cedar Way, Wellingborough. She knew the building well...
Original article by Douglas Ashby 1999, transcribed by Margaret Craddock with later additionsThe footwear trade started in Burton Latimer in a small way in the 1870s when men would do outdoor work in the barns behind their homes. Leather would be brought by horse and...
Article compiled from material currently held at the museum1964 - Ready to leave Meeting Lane with a full load of "She" Soft Drinks for delivery"She" Products Company Limited was was founded by Mr and Mrs F T Peck in June 1936 in the present factory in Meeting Lane....
Main article by Leslie EllisonThe creation of a 10-turbine wind farm on The Wold will change the skyline of Burton Latimer for at least several generations to come. This section of the site will describe the the developnment with reports and pictures as it was...
Article written by Godfrey Bigley, submitted 2010My first job after leaving school in 1965 was in the wages office of Hart & Levy’s clothing manufacturer’s factory in Bakehouse Lane, Burton Latimer. It was situated on the left hand side (when walking from...
Map courtesy of Mr A.J.Pack, former Mine Supervisor - April 2005 Map of Ironstone Mine in Burton Latimer The black zig-zag line represents Burton Latimer parish Boundary
An extract from "Twelve Generations" Compiled by John Coales.In 1877, a young Newport Pagnell man, Walter John (Jack) Coales, was lodging at Isham whilst serving an apprenticeship at the nearby mill at Burton Latimer belonging to T. & J. Wallis. This extract is...
Transcribed from feature “Romance of Industry” – The Coles Group - in Mercury & Herald, 14 February, 1958Famed throughout the footwear trade the world over, the Coles Group, which comprises eight factories in the Burton Latimer area and one in Jamaica,...
Article from Evening Telegraph 29th June 1978A fleet of She Products' VehiclesDelivery-vans, cars and articulated-lorries have turned one of Burton Latimer’s quietest lanes into “hell”, it has been claimed. Residents of Meeting Lane say that 32-ton lorries delivering...
Notice in Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette 8th March 1850Burton MillIsham MillTO BE LET, and may be entered upon immediately, Two MILLS, situate at Burton Latimer and Isham, in the County of Northampton. They have been latterly used as Worsted or Woollen Mills,...
Wallis Mill - later Weetabix - in 1937Workers at Burton Ironstone Co. c.1920Whitney & Westley's shoe factory c.1912
Article from local paper July 1961 transcribed by Sally CraneMr Lewis LangfordMr. Lewis Langford, 42 Finedon Road, Burton Latimer, director of Coles Group, Burton Latimer, and president of Kettering and District Boot and Shoe Manufacturers’ Association, who died on...
The photograph above was taken from a booklet produced by the Kaycee Clothing Company in 1949It states: Employees at the Burton factory with over 15 years service. Reading from left to right:Front row: Misses E. Darby, K. Martin, Mr. J. Mason (Factory manager), Mr....
Original article by Douglas Ashby, transcribed by Sarah GilbertThe only known photo of Burton Latimer Gas Works in the early 1920s. The people in the garden are members of the Boxwell family.The house on the skyline is 18/20 Bridle Road When standing on the railway...
Article compiled from material currently held at the museum.Below: Buckby Brothers photographed in about 1933.William Henry BuckbyArthur BuckbyHerbert Buckby (William's son)According to the 1901 census Samuel Buckby was an "Army Shoemaker working at home." His sons...
Prior to the building of the wind farm, Burton had never had any electricity generating capacity. The town had various types of natural water supply (streams, wells and springs). For a while it had its own sewerage system and gas works, but mains electricity had to be...
Article from local newspaper November 1968 transcribed by Sally CraneMr. Herbert (Bert) DunmoreMr. Herbert (Bert) Dunmore, a former director of Whitney and Westley Ltd., the Burton Latimer boot manufacturers, died early this morning (November 1968). He was 65. Mr....