Alice Ran A School In Helmdon For Dressmaking Apprentices - 14 February 2025
The reminiscences of Alice Hearne. |
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Helmdon Acorns First Home Was The Reading Room - 07 February 2025 |
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What The Young Husbands Got Up To - 31 January 2025
Revealed by Chris Gartside! |
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Engines Could Run Once More - 24 January 2025
We could have had freight trains running on the Great Central line again. |
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Did You Know Helmdon Had Quarries? - 17 January 2025
Several houses in the village give evidence to this day.
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Helmdon To Lose Its Baptist Chapel - 10 January 2025
Not good news for the generations who had worshipped there for 170 years. |
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A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND ALL GOOD WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR FROM THE WEBSITE TEAM. |
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Uncle Tom Cobley And All? - 13 December 2024
In 1924, 100 years ago, the village had a parish constable, a boot polish manufacturer a tailor, a saddler ... |
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Do You Remember The Wind Farm Furore?- 06 December 2024
It would have greatly impacted the lives of residents. |
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Remembering The HYHO's - 29 November 2024
A staggering £77,000 raised for village organisations. |
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Helmdon Had Two Lace Schools - 22 November 2024
One was held in the Fat Landlord (then called the Bell), and one on The Green. |
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British Honour Victims Of Aircrash- 15th November 2024
By remembrance at Helmdon's war memorial. |
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The Second World War - 10 November 2024
A compilation of Helmdon memories. |
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Parachuting, Welly Wanging & Line Dancing - 08 November 2024
Those were the days! |
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Poems & Prose About Helmdon - 01 November 2024
What villagers think about our village. |
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Remember When There Was A Fire In The Centre Of The Village? - 25 October 2024
Eight Of Jeffs Coaches Were On Fire. |
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The Helmdon Gardening Club - 18 October 2024
Julia McAuliffe's Reminiscences. |
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A Successful School In The Mid-Eighties - 11 October 2024
... and it is just as successful forty years on. |
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A Force In The Village For Women For Over 100 years - 04 October 2024
The WI - Much much more than Jam and Jerusalem. |
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A 2014 Traffic Nightmare Ahead - 27 September 2024
A prediction which has come true. |
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A Craftsman's Notebook - 20th September 2024
Full of information about a Helmdon wheelwright's life at the end of the nineteenth century. |
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The Bakehouse Was Trading Before 1780 - 13 September 2024
A newspaper cutting tell us so. |
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Rene Soames, BBC Singer - 06 September 2024
who lived at Stone Gables. |
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A "One-Off", Remarkable, Sometimes Seemingly Formidable Lady, She Spent Her Life Helping Others - 29 August 2024
Jean Spendlove ... a life remembered. |
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Residents Joy At Village Of The Year Success - 23 August 2024
This was in 1999 - it was one of the village's glory days. |
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The Welsh Lane - 16 August 2024
Originally a drover's road. Cattle were driven from Wales to the fat pastures of the Midlands. |
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Standing The Test Of Time - 09 August 2024
... our church, which was firstly dedicated to St Nicholas. |
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Listed Buildings in Helmdon, Astwell & Falcutt - 02 August 2024
Even trees are on the list. |
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Creation Of A Long Running Village Organisation - 26 July 2024
Helmdon Forms Its Own Mums' Club. |
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The Reminiscences Of Jean Spendlove - 19 July 2024
Who died recently. A unique village character. |
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The Helmdon Mantle-Piece - 12 July 2024
A definitive account after a two hundred year long debate. |
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Tributes As Racing Legends Mourned - 05 July 2024
One of whom was one of the top racing car drivers in the 70s dies in crash. |
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Documents Relating To Helmdon At Worcester College, Oxford - 28 June 2024
Worthy of more attention if you are researching early Helmdon history. |
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Cowboys And Indians Spotted In Helmdon - 21 June 2024
It seems like another age! |
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Falcutt house - 14 June 2024
Some notes from Charlotte Sandilands. |
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Anger In Helmdon Over Proposal For New Industrial Estate - 07 June 2024
Thank goodness it never came to fruition! |
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Helmdon School Layout (1976) and School Maintenance Documents (1908/1909) - 30 May 2024
In 1909 the combined teachers' salaries amounted to £240.10s.3d. |
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Military Funeral For A Member Of the Home Guard - 15 May 2024
Gunner Alfred Humphrey R.A. died in a military hospital. |
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A Life Remembered - 10 May 2024
Tony Smith, farmer. |
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Blackpits Comes Into Being - 03 May 2024
The first organic waste facility in England opens. |
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All Good Things Come To An End - 26 April 2024
The Closure of The Helmdon Fellowship Of Retired People. |
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Website Wins Major Award - 19 April 2024
Set up in 1999 it won several awards in those early years as www.helmdon.com, covering village events. |
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Helmdon Stores - 12 April 2024
Run and stocked from Sulgrave 200 years ago. |
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When The Prince Of Wales Came To Astwell - 05 April 2024
There is not much chance of that ever happening again! |
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A Life
Remembered - 29 March 2024
Phil Watson, a truly "gentle man". |
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The Reading Room Is 135 Years Old - 21 March 2024
.. and still thriving, the centre of much village life. |
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A Night To Remember - 14 March 2024
Denise Powell's Reminiscences of a Cross Lane Millennium Party - and the Cross Lane Queen's Golden and Diamond Jubilee Celebrations. |
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A Life Remembered - 29 February 2024
Vera McHardy, a friend to so many over the years. |
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When Developers Crossed Paths With Residents - 23 February 2024
No hands went up in favour of the proposed wind farm. |
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The Residents Of South View, 71 Wappenham Road - 16 February 2024
A photograph sparked off a quest. |
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A Public House & Museum In One - 09 February 2024
Here you could find a witch doctor's stick and other very interesting items.. |
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A Craftsman's Notebook - 02 February 2024
A precious little book now in the Northamptonshire Record Office. |
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The History Of The Old Manor House, Cross Lane - 26 January 2024
Built from stone from the old Helmdon quarry. |
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The Time When Helmdon Had Two Stations - 23 January 2024
The memories of Elizabeth Kirwan (nee Monck). |
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Record Of Documents Held At Magdalen College, Oxford - 12 January 2024
For researchers of early Helmdon history. |
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Shortgrove Woods Between The Wars - 05 January 2024
Also called Parrott Wood. |
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THE WEBSITE TEAM WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR |
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Plucking Turkeys At Field View - 15 December 2022
Mary Turnham's reminiscences. |
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Carnival Day 1995 - 08 December 2023
When "Health & Safety" and insurance allowed the fun of the carnival floats. |
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Murders In The Bull Family - 01 December 2023
An intriguing tale from David Bennett about two members of his family, two wives who poisoned their husbands shortly after marriage .... |
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Success For Helmdon - 24 November 2023
... in the village of the Year Competition. Were you in the photograph? |
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Rapped On the Knuckles For Talking In Class - 17 November 2023
Minnie Watson, a Life Remembered |
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The First World War Project - 10 November 2023
This 2014 body of work commemorates the history behind the names of the servicemen on the Helmdon War Memorial. |
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When The Fifth Earl Ferrars Sought to Sell Astwell & Falcutt After The Fourth Earl Was Hanged At Tyburn For Murder - 26 October 2023
1774 - 1778 Complicated aristocratic financial matters. |
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Dancers Get Strictly Bug - 19 October 2023
Our local dancers raised an enormous sum for charity. |
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Extracts From Talkabouts, Helmdon's Newsletter - 13 September 2023
These from 1984 - 1986. |
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Eleven Years Ago It Was Mooted. Could HS2 Bring It To Fruition? - 06 October 2023
The cycle route from Brackley to Helmdon. |
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How did Lukes Close Get Its Name? - 29th September 2023
A possible explanation! |
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The Day The Floods Came - 21st September 2023
It was 2007, and a great shock for some villagers. |
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When Helmdon Lost Its Chapel - 15 September 2023
For so many years a place of worship and centre of village activities. |
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Poems & Prose About Helmdon - 08 September 2023
An on-going collection. Can you make an addition? |
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Morris Dancing At The Fete - 01 September 2023
We had morris dancing at the fete this year but Morris dancers possibly put on a show in Helmdon as early at the mid-1850s. |
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Those Were The Days - 25 August 2023
When Helmdon was the Best Kept Village In Northamptonshire |
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He Pushed A Handcart Around Helmdon Selling Fresh Milk - 18 August 2023
Remembering John James Jessett |
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The Second World War - 11 August 2023
A compilation of memories. |
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Crafts In Action - 04 August 2023
Photography, calligraphy, bread making, pottery, needlework ..... a news cutting of yesteryear describing the show in the church in aid of charity. |
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A Station With Many Flowerbeds, A Sundial, Bird-bath, Goldfish Pond And An Ivy-covered
Imitation Well - 28 July 2023
Where else, but Helmdon? |
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New Great Central Railway Plan On The Cards - 21 July 2023
The threat that Central Railways posed with an opening up of the line from Lille to Liverpool via Brackley |
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Two Rectors Of Helmdon & Their Links With Wales - 07 July 2023
Historian Edward Parry is intrigued by this Connection. |
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Campaigner's Delight - 31 June 2023
The Wind Farm Victory was 8 years ago. |
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Some Names Are Of Families Still In The Village Today - 09 June 2023
A name index taken from the Helmdon Council School Admission Record from March 9th 1904 to 1941. |
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The Baptist Chapel Closes Its Doors - 02 June 2023
Press cutting documenting its closure nearly ten years ago. |
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Why Is Hintons Close So Called? - 17 May 2023
Read why it got its name. |
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He Worked On The Great Central Railway - 12 May 2023
Jim Tugwood was as a porter and later a signalman for the company. |
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"Helmdon For Sulgrave" - 05 May 2023
Memories of the Great Central Railway. |
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As The Prince Of Wales Passed Through Helmdon The School Flag Was Hoisted - 28 April 2023
Geoff Ipgrave's wonderful resume of old school logbooks has a wealth of fascinating facts. |
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Christmas Gifts To The Poor - 20 April 2023
... from a nonagenarian, a real friend of Helmdon. |
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My Early Years In Helmdon - 14th April 2023
Reminiscences from Ann Smith, part of the Lowdown, Lockdown Project. |
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The Origins Of The Reading Room - 07 April 2023
Did you know it was opened in 1888? |
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The Shape, A Ghost Story - 30 March 2023
From the reminiscences of Kay Bristow, nee Pettifer, who lived at a small cottage now incorporated into Butts Cottage, Wappenham Road. |
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Dancers Get The Strictly Bug - 23 March 2023
in 2010, and raise over £7,000 for local charities. |
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The Blacksmith Was Also The Dentist - 17 March 2023
Not a great thought! |
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Those Were The Days - 09 March 2023
The year is 2005, when the Carnival raised a magnificent sum - £7,562 - for village organisations. |
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WHEN THE VILLAGE WAS HALF THE SIZE IT IS TODAY - 02 March 2023
... but was self sufficient with its baker, grocer, draper, blacksmith, etc. |
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TURBINE WOULD HAVE BEEN TWO AND A HALF TIMES THE HEIGHT OF NELSON'S COLUMN - 24 February 2023
The village unites to see off the proposed wind turbine. |
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A SECOND WORLD - 17 February 2023
Joan McCann recalls her happy days in Helmdon. |
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FOUNDER MEMBERS ATTEND 35TH ANNIVERSARY - 10 February 2023
The anniversary in 2005 being that of the Women's Club, which has lately changed its name into Helmdon Together. |
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THE TIME WHEN HELMDON HAD TWO TRAIN STATIONS - 03 February 2023
The memories of Elizabeth Kirwan (nee Monck) |
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MEMORY CORNER - 27 January 2023
A press cutting from 1953 which instances the village in 1871 as having 656 inhabitants. |
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