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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