Presented by Margaret Craddock 2010. Fresh information added 2013 The 1886 Ordnance Survey map shows the site of Washpit Farm. It was owned by the Harpurs and farmed by a succession of tenants including John Stokes' family from1830 for about 70 years. Walter Attfield,...
The photograph used in the Evening Telegraph in 1980 to show the danger to pedestrians using the bridge."Bridge May Be Killer" was the headline in the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph on 31st July 1976. It went on: "Pedestrians take their lives in their hands when...
The Joyce brothers (Bill and John) ran a heavy haulage firm in the latter part of the last century, mainly using tipper lorries and transporting sand and gravel. The photo above was taken in about 1977, and shows the firm's lorries parked at Cyril Desborough's yard in...
John Meads 2016The car which injured Fred Hull was a German manufactured Piccolo. The company built cars from 1904 to 1912.A donkey-drawn barrel organ similar to that destroyed when a blind man, Fred Hull, was hit by Harold Fuller's Piccolo car on Higham...
Presented by Margaret CraddockThe Gilliatt family acted as tenant farmers at a farm belonging to the Harpur family on The Wold. In about 1910, unable to make a living from the farm, the family moved to 1 Church Street - Ivy Cottage. It is from here that Clement...
Frost Bros (later Frost Motors Ltd) of Hallwood Road, Kettering amalgamated in 1923 with John Meadows, a transport service of Burton Latimer. The organisation became Meadows & Frost.A Frosts Vulcan saloon bus parked at a bus stop that for many years stood outside...
For many people living in Burton in the latter part of the last century, local bus services were synonymous with the green livery of the United Counties Bus Company (or - if you wanted to travel from Kettering to Pytchley - Royal Blue Coaches). However, a number of...
John Meads 2014The derailment on 30th March 1936 which resulted in Walter Dorrell of Derby claiming compensationAnother freight train slowly passing the scene. The line was later closed to allow the goods train to be rightedMAIN LINE BLOCKED -COLLISION NARROWLY...
The firm of Church Street Autos was commenced by Mr Stanley Firmin in premises let to him at the old Rectory in Church Street in the 1950s. From there, the business moved to garage premises in Rosebery Street. During the 1960's Church Street Autos took over the...
Article from local newspaper transcribed by Sally CraneBurton Latimer Station pictured about 1957 It’s just forty years ago since Burton Latimer station closed down … and so ended an argument with a neighbouring village. For although it was known as Burton Latimer...
John Meads 2021Besides his grandfather John Meadows and father Norman, Douglas Ashby recounts that his mother also drove a bus and he names other Burton Latimer employees as Bob Phillips (below), Bill Wright, Percy Knowles, Bill Smith, Charlie Henson (right) and...
Interview by Margaret Craddock with Brian Mutlow 6 April 2009 regarding Burton Latimer Railway Station and his father, Station Master Arthur Mutlow.Burton Latimer for Isham station c1920. The station was opened in 1857 and closed to passenger traffic in 1950.Mr Arthur...
After campaigning for many years for the building of a bypass for the town, in 1984 a committee was formed to lead efforts for the long-awaited bypass. Alternative routes for the scheme were put on public display in April 1986. Mr Robert Mercer, the headmaster of...
Bert Eady and son Rodney collecting timber to be cut into logs for sale at his Higham Road woodyardBesides selling firewood Bert operated a general carriers business handling a wide range of goods
Article from Evening Telegraph Friday, 2 July 1982Steps have been taken to stop a shanty town market from forming on a Burton Latimer lay-by. NB This was at the entrance to the town from KETTERING to the north.Town councillors said the A6 rest-area was an eyesore and...
Summary researched and compiled by John MeadsThe existence of two coaching inns, the Wagon & Horses in Kettering Road and the Red Cow in the High Street show that Burton Latimer was on a stage-coach route. In 1812 there was a reference to a stop at the Red Cow by...
Horace Keightley (seen on the left above) and his father George Herbert Keightley started a carrier's business in 1919. The address of the business was 204 High Street but their yard was opposite on the corner of Rosebery Street and Finedon Road.Aerial view showing...
Article taken from letters column of local newspaper dated 25th April 1990.The picture of the old Burton Latimer railway station brought back memories of my boyhood and from my experiences this station was the lifeline for Burton Latimer and the outlying villages....
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...
The firm of Church Street Autos was commenced by Mr Stanley Firmin in premises let to him at the old Rectory in Church Street in the 1950s. From there, the business moved to garage premises in Rosebery Street. During the 1960's Church Street Autos took over the...