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July 24, 2020December 6, 2021Blogs

Tid bit

Ernest Arthur Harrison was summoned for unlawfully keeping for private use a certain explosive without having obtained a certificate from the Chief of Police at Finedon.
The defendant admitted taking two little bits of explosive home but didn’t mean any harm.

June 26, 2020December 6, 2021Blogs

Collarette

Mrs Mavis Perkins has donated a Free Gardeners collarette to the Society Archive – many thanks Mavis.

June 12, 2020December 6, 2021Blogs

Risdene

Andrew purchased a vintage map off e-bay and on it was written F.Burdett, Risdene, Finedon Road, Irthlingborough. Who was he and where was Risdene? Never heard of it.

December 1, 2011December 6, 2021Blogs, Newsletters

Newsletter December 2011

The first row of cottages was on the right hand side of the road and in 1901 the widowed householder of the middle cottage had turned one room into a grocery shop whist still living there with five adult children. More cottages stood on what is now the driveway leading to the car park of the former Kwik Save Supermarket.