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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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Memories of the Boroughs
Location: Northamptonshire
Ray Coles was born in the Boroughs in the early 1940s and his memories are still vivid of people and places
"I was born in Lower Harding Street right opposite Spring Lane School. All our family went to that school.
"I knew the Boroughs like the back of my hand. There was a jellied eel shop in Bearward Street (right) which was run by Ma Hodges...she was a funny woman. One Friday night she danced naked on the counter of "The Bear". She was as mad as a hatter when the drink took her. She ended up braining her husband with a bottle of beer - killed him, she did"
"In Grafton Street was the Post Office and Old Twenty Fives public house (below right). When I was a kid my pals used to lower me on a rope into the cellar and I used to pinch the empty beer bottles and get money back on them...then we had enough money to pay for the flicks (cinema)"
"The Post Office (below left) was run by Mis Lucy Starmer - she was bit of a dragon and we kids were scared of her - she never married. I don't think any man would dared have asked her!"
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