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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"


Aerial view of the Boroughs © Ruth Thomas
Crowded street plan of the Boroughs © Ruth Thomas



   
   

Now and Then - The Boroughs
Location: Northamptonshire

In the 1960s there was widescale demolition and rebuild in the Boroughs


Aerial view of the BoroughsIn the late 1960s the Boroughs area underwent radical redevelopment - many streets of terraced houses were destroyed and replaced with a variety of modern flats with some ugly multi-storey housing, the first of these tower blocks being St Katherine's Court, 1957 (centre top of picture). This was followed by Beaumont and Claremont Courts (bottom right of picture) in 1963
Although it has always been a poor district the Boroughs had always had a strong community; the people who lived there were badly affected by the destruction of an established residential area.



Crowded street plan of the Boroughs
This was the central part of the Boroughs in 1901. One of the supposed reasons for its name was because the layout of the area was tightly packed houses like rabbit burrows.
Spring Lane School at this time is hemmed in by terraced houses (far left centre of picture). St Andrew's Church can be seen (middle top) and the Mayorhold (centre)
Many of the town's slums were located here with shuts like Moat Street and Fort Street being notoriously needy areas (bottom left)




 



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