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Spring Lane School and The Boroughs - Images of the last 130 Years
Northampton Castle and the Boroughs
Visit to Imperial War Museum Duxford
Spring Lane School Log Books in the Nineteenth Century
An Education at Spring Lane School, 1928
A New School - A New Start
Cloisters Pocket Park Tidy Up
Cloisters Pocket Park - Official Opening
A Trip to London
Central Area School Buildings Reborn !
The Boroughs 1831
The Boroughs 1610
The Boroughs - Celebrating the Coronation 1937
Memories of the Boroughs
Now and Then - The Boroughs
Vanished Streets of the Boroughs
The Mayorhold
The Boroughs in 1851
Multi-Cultural Event at Spring Lane School, February 26th 2005
Pubs in the Boroughs 1901
A Cache of Photographs from the 1960s
Shoemaking and the Boroughs - the First Shoe Manufactory
Caught in Time - Past Views of the Boroughs
Fun Day, the Boroughs July 22nd 2006
Fun Day Continued
"The Burrows"
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A Cache of Photographs from the 1960s
Location: Northamptonshire
Sometimes, when researching a project a group of photographs are found of unknown ownership which bring back a period long gone The pictures on this page were taken in the early 1960s, the only known surviving record of Spring Lane School shortly before it was demolished. The photographer is anonymous but we owe them a debt for leaving us this snapshot of times past
 
The view on the left is of the old Victorian school building with the spacious grassed area to the frontage. When the school was built in 1874 a row of terraced houses hemmed the building in on three sides. it was only on Spring Lane that there were no houses. By the 1960s the only remaining houses on the school's perimeter were in Spring Lane Terrace; these can be seen in the right photo of the School Sports Day. Spring Lane Terrace ran along the bottom of the playing fields and was a row of small two-up two-down houses
The Victorian Spring Lane School is clearly shown to be a capacious building designed for the large number of children which would need to be accommodated from the many big families in the Boroughs of 1874
The Sports Day photo from the 1960's (right) shows children of the school enjoying a competitive race. More of these photographs can be seen on the left border of thumbnails
 
One of the most interesting photos in this small group was of St Katherine's Mission in Scarletwell Street. The Mission predated Spring Lane School and was affiliated to St Katherine's Church at the other end of the Boroughs. The Mission (left) was situated directly to the south of the school and it can be seen from this photograph that when the school was built it had to be squeezed into the area adjacent to the Mission.
Prior to the Education Act of 1870 one of the few sources of education for children was the Sunday School. Many children received this very basic teaching at one of the Missions in the town where they gained a rudimentary education. St Katherine's Mission was demolished in the 1960's and these photographs show the views before and after
 
A race taking place at the School Sports Day.
Spring Lane School 1960s
 
Spring Lane School with Beaumont and Claremont Courts rising behind
Spectators at a School Sports Day, 1960s
and finally... a happy group of 1960s pupils enjoy playing on a climbing frame !
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