Current Topics

Pownall's bread cart in Bird Street, Burton Latimer, in 1927
Jesse Fox and family at Hilly Farm, Burton Latimer - 1900
When the Horse and Cart ruled the road.
Left - Gerald Farrow and Tim Fuller stand by Pownall's baker's cart in Bird Street in 1927
Right - Hilly Farm, High Street in 1900. Jesse Fox and family. Jesse was also landlord of The Horse & Groom


This page details which topics are currently being researched and which sections of the site are in preparation. A list of the general headings to be covered by the project can be found on the Project News page.

The counterpart of this page is the Information Needed page. As topics are researched, gaps in the stories and details are bound to emerge. If there are particular things the Society and volunteers need, they are listed on the Information Needed page.
Topics now available on the latest website update - March 27th

  • Shops in Burton Latimer - Duke Street, Pigott's Lane, South High Street
  • The 1957 Electoral Register - listings by street
  • BL Farms Survey 1941-43
  • Pam Mills
  • Joan Holmes - memories
  • Pubs, Clubs and Alehouses - photogallery
  • The Manor House and its passages
  • Whitney & Westley photo gallery
  • Church School Concerts in the 1890s
  • Edward Bailey

Topics to be added in the next website update - May 30th 2008

  • The 1957 Electoral Register - listings by name
  • Burton Latimer entries in the records of Northampton Infirmary
  • Local Doctors & the early days of Health Provision
  • Shops Photo-Gallery

Topics currently in development
  • Town Trail
  • Local Haulage Firms
  • Local Businesses (non-retail)
  • Burton Latimer Hall
  • The Pocket Park
  • Parade Day
  • Memories of Burton in the 1940s and 50s
  • The Dunmore family in Burton Latimer
  • Local Coach firms
  • The Conservation Area
  • The Wrestling Club
  • The Pownall/Groome families
  • Youth Football
  • The History of the Baptist Chapel
  • Watts' Wood Yard

If you have any information and/or pictures of any of the above topics we would be very pleased to hear from you. Our archive is not encyclopaedic, and unless all sources of information on the history of the town are used, much of that vital information will be lost forever.