Article taken from an Evening Telegraph Special Agricultural supplement 24 May 1935A general view of Wallis' yard. The cottages in the background front onto the High Street.Burton Latimer Urban Council, was met by spirited opposition when its High Street slum...
Original article by Douglas Ashby 1982, transcribed by Sarah GilbertAerial view taken 1923 depicting Preston Memorial HallThe recent demolition of the Preston Hall has removed from the scene a building that stood for 91 years and in its hey day played an important...
A series of Evening Telegraph Articles, 1968-73The old schoolhouse - late 60'sThe old schoolhouse after renovation - 1973The Jacobean Schoolhouse was completed in 1622. This was home to the free school originally founded in 1587 by Thomas and Margaret Burbanke in 1587...
Article by Douglas AshbyFern Bank, Church Lane, c.1888t the gate stands the housekeeper, Hannah Williamson. This property with its long garden was for many years the home of several unmarried Harpur ladies. Miss Ellen Harpur who died in 1896 was followed by her niece...
Original documents at the Northamptonshire Record Office. Transcribed by Maureen Moore.The Lay Subsidy was a form of national taxation that was imposed by government as early as the thirteenth century. Most subsidies reveal only the monies collected, although the...
Newspaper article from 1956, transcribed by Sally CraneThe local craze for coffee-houses may belong, more properly, to the eighteenth century than to the present day. The people of Burton Latimer opened one in 1898 in the building that now serves the town as a post...
Report from the Kettering Evening Telegraph, January 17th 1980The site in questionSeven families may lose their caravan homes unless an appeal to the Government succeeds. The mobile homes on Thatchers' Caravan Site in Meeting Lane , Burton Latimer, were the subject of...
Report from the Kettering Evening Telegraph, March 3rd 1980Caravan dwellers say a Government decision to close their site will bring hardship and cash loss. Six families will have to move from the Meeting Lane site in Burton Latimer at the end of next year. An appeal...
An Article from "The Advertiser" dated January 1960 transcribed by Sally CraneCaravan Site at Park Road, Burton Latimer in 1960If you live in a caravan at Burton Latimer you do not stand a chance of getting a council house. That, say caravan dwellers in the town, is...
Article by Bill Watson, October 201046b High Street, Burton Latimer, in October 2010 - seen from the yard behind the shopsI was born at St.Mary’s Hospital in Kettering on the 12th of April 1956. My parents, Margaret and Wilfred Watson lived in the top floor flat at...
Article from the Kettering Leader and Guardian, December 6th 1957, transcribed by Sally Crane.Note: The flats referred to in this article are the ones which were eventually built (in modified form) in the early 1960s as part of the Latimer Close/Burton House...
Article partly resourced from local newspaper (1971)This property was probably a shop for a considerable part of the 19th century. Harry and Mary Buckby, who lived in the cottage next door at number 4, sold sweets and confectionery there from the early 1890s. They had...
Association Link here!! 8. Fern Bank, Church Lane, c.1888. At the gate stands the housekeeper, Hannah Williamson. This property with its long garden was for many years the home of several unmarried Harpur ladies. Miss Ellen Harpur who died in 1896 was followed by her...
Mill Cottage is the last remnant of Burton's South Mill, which was destroyed by fire and demolished in 1936. the advert below is taken from a newspaper cutting when the property came up for sale in the 1980s. Unique opportunity Double fronted stone cottage with two...