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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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Pubs in the Boroughs 1901
Location: Northamptonshire
There were 82 public houses in the Boroughs in 1901 - at least one on every street !
The Boroughs had had a reputation for hard drinking since the 1850s when Richard Rowe described the "beery" men to be found in the locality. For the male shoeworkers the public house was one of the few leisure activities they could afford to enjoy and the "pub" was so readily available just a few doors from home...
Some of these pubs have gone down in the folklore of Northampton. The Mitre in King Street was notorious as a place to procure prostitutes and the Boroughs developed an unfortunate reputation as a "red-light" district.
There were of course many respectable pubs with a good community atmosphere such as the "Old Jolly Smokers" on the Mayorhold and the "Golden Lion" on Phoenix Street - this latter is one of the few public houses still in existence in the Boroughs today
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