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 the Britannia WMC and the Salvation Army Hall
A timetable for Frosts Buses scheduled between Burton Latimer and Kettering,
some travelling via Polwell Lane.
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...