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...
Early Bus Service
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...
Bus Employees
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...
A Brief History of Burton Latimer – IV – Roads and Railways
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...