Original article reasearched and written by Greg Evans, transcribed by Helen SmithThe town of Burton Latimer lies on the Northampton sand ironstone bed, an oolitic ironstone from the Jurassic period, running from the vicinity of Lincoln in the north to Towcester in...
These employees of the Ideal Clothiers' Burton Latimer factory are enjoying a day at Brighton in 1949L-R: Brenda Gennis, Rita Butlin, June Grey, Hazel Shipley, Margaret Hone, Iris Knighton, Brenda Thornton
Undated article from an “Evening Telegraph Special Supplement” titled “The Good Old Days”The clothing industry in Northamptonshire has given employment to generations of local people since the turn of the century. One of the largest companies in the area was Ideal...
Article compiled by Sue Humphrey, February 2010I joined Alumasc in or around 1971/72 as a switchboard operator. Mrs Zena Cooke, who lived in Cranford Road, was due to retire and I came on board to learn the ropes. In those days STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialling .........
John Meads 2012Left to right: Bernard Maddocks, Arthur Brown, D. Byard, Ray Briggs, Toddy Swain (at the back),C. Britton, R. Yeoman, T. Richardson and Reg Moore Some of these gentlemen had been working at Alumasc since its WW2 days as a munitions factory run by...
A 1920 photo of the Hart & Levy factory.A canteen was later built on the open area to the rightThe Hart & Levy factory was built in Bakehouse Lane in 1884, and was originally named "Gladstone Works". The factory was one of a number of Hart & Levy...
The newly-built Sterling Metals factory, seen in an aerial shot from 1942As the name of the firm implies, Alumasc specialises in the manufacture of goods made of the metal aluminium. Aluminium has many valuable qualities - it is light, strong, non-rusting, and easily...
Brick Yard Sale Poster
This article is based on the commentary to the Alumasc section of the Society's DVD Original text seen and approved by Alumasc, 2007, and images used with their permissionThe Alumasc stand at the "Burton Can Make It" Exhibition of 1948The Alumasc name came into being...
Original Article by Douglas Ashby, transcribed by Sally CraneIn April 1936 two disastrous fires occurred within 24 hours of each other. The first was a serious blaze in Russell street, Kettering which destroyed the New Coliseum cinema which was later re-built and...
Original newspaper article transcribed by Sarah GilbertFactory demolition work is in progress at the premises which were severely damaged by fire at Burton Latimer last April. Top: part of the wall crashes to the ground; above: the 100ft chimney stands out above the...
John Meads 2012This photograph, taken in the early 1900s, shows boys working at Whitney & Westley's shoe factory in Finedon StreetThe young girls at the front of this 1905 photograph are working at the High Street factory of Wallis & LinnellA hundred years ago it...
Article researched by Margaret Craddock with assistance from Mr Angus Westley. Presented by Margaret Craddock.The business started on 1 January 1896 although it really began when two men used to walk three miles from Burton Latimer to Kettering each day, in all...
John Meads 2012Taking a break from their work at Fox Bros., Leather Dressers,Cut Sole Specialists etc. at Spencer Works, Spencer Street areL-R: Jim Austin, Reg Buckby, Fred Briggs, Basil Taylor and Ted Hare.The works were at the bottom of the garden of Thomas Fox's...
Information obtained from local newspaper articles from May to July 1945 - Margaret JonesEmployees manufacturing holloware cooking utensilsIn May 1945, the Burton Latimer Urban Council expressed the hope that the M.A.P factory in Polwell Lane, manufacturing weapons...
Article by John Meads, 2005, amended 2017The Mills of Burton Latimer on the Bryant Map of 1826Numbers refer to sections in the text belowThe Priory of Bradenstoke (Wilts) had property in Burton Latimer by 1222, including a mill called “Byggemull” (big mill?). A...
Research by Janet & John Meads, article by JohnSite of the brickyard on the 1886 Ordnance Survey mapIn 1847, Lewis James of Isham, took out a lease on "One piece of land to be used as a brickyard only, in part of a field in the occupation of John Stokes lying near...