In the 1880s Kettering’s population was growing fast, from 11,093 in 1881 to 22,000 in 1891 due to the shoe trade taking off. and a large number of terraced houses were being erected in the north of the town for the workers. In 1887 Mr John Bryan, a local factory...

Not everyone knows that the first true cotton-mill was actually in Northampton. Mechanised cotton spinning began in 1738 when a Frenchman called Lewis Paul, working in Birmingham with the assistance of another engineer called John Wyatt invented and patented a machine...

As 2020 is the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth and with our thoughts and support very much with the fantastic work of the NHS at this moment in time, it seemed appropriate to make our first post a look back at the early years of Northampton Infirmary. ...