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 Home 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 Fun Day, the Boroughs July 22nd 2006 Fun Day Continued "The Burrows"  |
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St Mary's Street was the site of the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675; it was here that a woman leaving a pot unattended over a fire was the cause of the subsequent inferno which left the town nearly totally destroyed. The houses pictured here were part of the rebuild of Northampton, mostly dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The house third from the end on the right was St Thomas' Hospital which served as a refuge for the needy. St Mary's Street dates from the 12th century and was named after the medieval Church of the Blessed Virgin, the burial ground of which lay at the end of the street and was used to bury victims of the plague 
Cliff's Row was a group of houses built at a very early stage in the growth of Northampton. This photograph dates from c 1860s and Cliff's Row is shown (below) on the 1851 map of the town. This is one of the earliest photographs of a street in the Boroughs. When first built, it ws surrounded by open fields and orchards and was accessed from a lane off St Andrew's Street which can be seen in the background
