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 ....

Success For Helmdon - 24 November 2023

... in the village of the Year Competition.  Were you in the photograph?

Rapped On the Knuckles For Talking In Class - 17 November 2023

Minnie Watson, a Life Remembered

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.

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.

Dancers Get Strictly Bug - 19 October 2023

Our local dancers raised an enormous sum for charity.

Extracts From Talkabouts, Helmdon's Newsletter - 13 September 2023

These from 1984 - 1986.

Eleven Years Ago It Was Mooted. Could HS2 Bring It To Fruition? - 06 October 2023

The cycle route from Brackley to Helmdon.

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.

When Helmdon Lost Its Chapel - 15 September 2023

For so many years a place of worship and centre of village activities.

Poems & Prose About Helmdon - 08 September 2023

An on-going collection.  Can you make an addition?

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.

Those Were The Days - 25 August 2023

When Helmdon was the Best Kept Village In Northamptonshire

He Pushed A Handcart Around Helmdon Selling Fresh Milk - 18 August 2023

Remembering John James Jessett

The Second World War - 11 August 2023

A compilation of memories.

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.

A Station With Many Flowerbeds, A Sundial, Bird-bath, Goldfish Pond And An Ivy-covered Imitation Well - 28 July 2023

Where else, but Helmdon?

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

Two Rectors Of Helmdon & Their Links With Wales - 07 July 2023
Historian Edward Parry is intrigued by this Connection.

Campaigner's Delight - 31 June 2023
The Wind Farm Victory was 8 years ago.

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.

The Baptist Chapel Closes Its Doors - 02 June 2023
Press cutting documenting its closure nearly ten years ago.

Why Is Hintons Close So Called? - 17 May 2023
Read why it got its name.

He Worked On The Great Central Railway - 12 May 2023
Jim Tugwood was as a porter and later a signalman for the company.

"Helmdon For Sulgrave" - 05 May 2023
Memories of the Great Central Railway.

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.

Christmas Gifts To The Poor - 20 April 2023
... from a nonagenarian, a real friend of Helmdon.

My Early Years In Helmdon - 14th April 2023
Reminiscences from Ann Smith, part of the Lowdown, Lockdown Project.

The Origins Of The Reading Room - 07 April 2023
Did you know it was opened in 1888? 

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.

Dancers Get The Strictly Bug - 23 March 2023
in 2010, and raise over £7,000 for local charities.

The Blacksmith Was Also The Dentist - 17 March 2023
Not a great thought!

Those Were The Days - 09 March 2023
The year is 2005, when the Carnival raised a magnificent sum - £7,562 - for village organisations.

WHEN THE VILLAGE WAS HALF THE SIZE IT IS TODAY - 02 March 2023
... but was self sufficient with its baker, grocer, draper, blacksmith, etc.

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.

A SECOND WORLD - 17 February 2023
Joan McCann recalls her happy days in Helmdon.

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.

THE TIME WHEN HELMDON HAD TWO TRAIN STATIONS - 03 February 2023
The memories of Elizabeth Kirwan (nee Monck)

MEMORY CORNER - 27 January 2023
A press cutting from 1953 which instances the village in 1871 as having 656 inhabitants.