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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"


Although not strictly in the Boroughs, Arundel Street in the 1960s shows a typical view of childhood in this part of town. The 1930s flats of the Boroughs can be seen at the end of the road © Northamptonshire Libraries
Bath Square was typical of some of the very poor housing in the Boroughs. The houses had no back yard and very primitive sanitation © Northamptonshire Libraries
Grafton Place was one of the shuts in the Boroughs demolished before the 1930s © Northamptonshire Libraries
Air raid shelters are built in Herbert Street, 1939 - Spring Lane School is visible at the bottom of the street © Chronicle and Echo


   
   
Vanished Streets of the Boroughs
 Location: Northamptonshire

Most of the houses built in the Boroughs built before 1970 have gone, demolished in the "development " of the area; some streets have vanished completely

Grafton Place was one of the shuts in the Boroughs demolished before the 1930sGrafton Place was a short street which ran off Bell Barn Street; the church of St Andrew's can be seen at the end of the road
This view is from the 1950s; coal fires emit a constant smog over the Boroughs and the cobbled streets are damp with winter rain
Grafton Place was demolished in the 1970s and it can be seen in the bottom picture just behind the 1930's blocks of whitewashed art deco housing in St Andrew's Street. This housing was also demolished in the 1970s and replaced by multi-storey flats


Bath SquareBath Square was still in existence as late as the 1970s; it was a small row of houses near the top of Bath Street. The frontage of the houses was provided with gardens or at least waste ground suitable for erecting a washing line. There was little privacy; the small plots of earth are bounded by wicket fencing and the houses all overlook each other. In days past, this would have been an opportunity to snatch a conversation with a neighbour when communities were closer


Herbert Street
Herbert Street now lies beneath Claremont Court; here it is seen in the final stages of demolition in 1963; the photo is taken from the top of Beaumont Court. This view also shows the 1930s whitewashed art deco flats which had already eclipsed Grafton Place; they in their turn were to be pulled down in the early 1970s to make way for St John's House. St Andrew's Church has survived but not for much longer; it too disappeared -in 1972. Houses survive in St Andrew's Street and beyond can be seen the terraced housing on the Mounts and to the left the shoe factory of George Marlow.



 


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