I was born in the town and lived there for 40 years, it was ok growing up there, particularly in the 60s ,I go there now to visit my family, otherwise I wouldn’t go anywhere near there, it’s a dump now, terrible traffic, run down, too big , most but not all the best shops long gone, shame really 😔

A very enjoyable video, thanks. I have lived in Northampton since 1997 and don't think I've ever seen it at its best! Love the 1900s railway station. Today's station is certainly an improvement on the more recent forms it's taken.

Thank u from Hawai'i for the history of Northampton uk. I have enjoyed it.

Brilliant work, James. Bravo!

SO MANY MEMORIES

Heartbreaking.

Awesome love seeing stuff like this 👍

Beautifully done! :)

Good work ! I like it very interesting ❤️

Well done! Very clever.

Hi, I'm from the Northampton Chronicle and Echo newspaper. This is a great video. Just wondering if we would be able to use it, with a credit to yourself, of course. Many thanks

@JamesFoxTimeTravelArtist

5 ай бұрын

If you can include a link to my KZread channel in the post that would be appreciated. You can email me at timetravelimages@gmail.com 👍

awesome video, such a great way to blend still images together to tell a story

LOVE THIS

I'm afraid the council ruined the town in the 70s, many historic building destroyed and then more recently the council sold Sekhemka, one of our public held ancient treasures to make a quick buck!!!! Well 16 million to be accurate, they'd sell their grannies teeth if they could lol

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

It was only valued at £5m (good bit of business. I dont know why someone would want to pay £16m for a bit of carved stone from the bronze age).

@jennifernicholson5005

3 жыл бұрын

Well Harpal, they knew how much they would get for it, the £5 million is a ‘come and buy it price’ to attract the collectors’ its common practise to price things low in catalogues!! Highly collectable, nobody other than the new owner has a original Sekhemka in their gallery, not even the original owner can lay claim to his own statue ~ sad. All we have now is a museum closed and a cafe, (Ok I know Covid) no one’s seen...... what the hell is that about!

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

@@jennifernicholson5005 The come and buy it now price might have been £5 but no one could have foreseen it reaching £16m and braking the existing world record for an Ancient Egyptian artwork sold at auction (turned out to be a good bit of business). My understanding was some of the money was spent of Delapre Abbey. i do agree with you that back in the 1970's they demolished some important historical building that even at the time they shouldn't have (but the selling of the statue was in 2014 and i don't think it was even on display ?)

@jennifernicholson5005

3 жыл бұрын

Everything has a price and if 2 people wanted or more so the price goes up!!! The price wasn’t unforeseen, Christies know their clients and they did and amazing job on the catalogue and marketing for this item, it looked truly beautiful the brochure, the brochure was art in its self , I don’t know whether you can see this brochure online now?! They did use to exhibit it, but awfully, as everything they did at the museum was pretty awful exhibited, the same for when they exhibited Sir Malcolm Arnold Oscar, in a dirty old cabinet, no one had any vision at the museum. But hey let’s have a look and seen what they do in the future, they still have many priceless items in the vaults!

Nice

Northampton in the past looks better than now 2022, not many English voices in Northampton in 2022!!!!!!!

I lived here 2009-2011 very depressing place.

@mrblueberry4183

3 жыл бұрын

Very depressing indeed.

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in Northampton for 18+ years and i much prefer it to Luton

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrblueberry4183 Have you lived in Luton ? (now that what i call very depressing)

@mrblueberry4183

3 жыл бұрын

@@gv-k4f7g5b9 I can believe that though, Luton has a really bad rep

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mrblueberry4183 When the country gets out of Lockdown i challenge you and the rest of us who live in NN to book your annual 2 week holiday and spend it in Luotn (i know for a fact know one couldn't last the distance, it really is a depressing place. Its even got its own airport to help people escape). Now Northampton on the other hand is full of history: Church of the Holy Sepulchre Thomas Becket Well (by the hospital) Queen Elenor monument (only 3 of the original 12 survive) Delapre Abbey 78 Derngate (Rennie Mackintosh) Northampton Castle and postern gate Royal Derngate Theatre (baroque Victorian architecture). It was opened on 5th May 1884 (the building was designed by Charles Phipps). Boot and Shoe Museum Abington Park Museum (Manor House) Phipps Brewery (next to the King Billy pub) The welsh House (off market square, next to entrance to Grosvenor centre) built in 1594 Beethoven house (next door to Welsh House (built 17th century), has a oriel window Oriel House (sheep street) Baptist Church of 1863 (on College Street) Saint Marys Street (location where the Great Fire of Northampton started in 1675) Castle Hill - Dodridge and Commercial Street Reformed Church (Founded in 1662 and the original chapel built in 1695 was built from the remains of the old castle) Black lion public house (Mare Fair), perhaps the oldest public house in Northampton by virtue of its links to the castle recorded in history Saint peters church (next door to black lion pub), Norman tower church built in 1160 (there was an original saxon church here around AD 400 Hazelrigge House 1662 (original Elizabethan architecture which survived the great fire). It is believed Oliver Cromwell slept at the house prior to the battle of Naseby in 1645 (hence why the house is sometimes called Cromwell house) Free School Street (just past Hazelrigge House), Saint Gregory’s church was here but taken down by Henry the VIII Gold Street (original saxon-Danish town started around this area) Becket and Sergeant Endowed School (Kings well Street) 1735 Austin Friars monastery (was at the bottom of Kings Well Street), gone now Saint John’s Church / Saint John’s Hospital 1138, has good mediaeval windows (opposite king billy pub) Corporation Charity School (Bridge Street), Became the Blue Coat Boys School Fat Cats (Bridge Street), was the Angel Hotel, was the last surviving inn allowed to brew their own beer (during these times laws were strict and only places brewing good beer were allowed to continue). The Manchester to London mail coach made daily stops here All Saints Church (town square), Most probably a Saxon site which the Danes destroyed about AD 1009 (The subsequent church built here was destroyed by the great fire of 1675 Lloyds Bank Building / opposite All Saints Church (was part of the George Inn once), County Hall Building / Sessions House (a few doors down from Lloyds Bank), was one of the first buildings to be built after the great fire of 1675 (its built on the site of the old county Jail) Sir Edwin Lutyens Memorial (directly opposite County Hall), Memorial to WW1 (Edwin Lutyens designed the Cenotaph and other great buildings especially most of Delhi). Guildhall Town Hall (contains statues of Thomas Becket, Queen Eleanor, Edward IV, Sir Thomas White, John Dryden, Saint Andrew, St Patrick, Richard I, Henry III, Edward I, Queen Victoria, Henry VIII, Saint Michael). Old Jail which was rebuilt in 1846 having replaced the older jail on the same site of 1794 and prior to 1675 the jail was at the castle (opposite Guildhall), Was the central Museum and art gallery many years ago but now a pizza restaurant. The post office (site of little holdenby house) - now gone unfortunately Tourist office and working men’s club (now Fox and Quill Pub), Bonds Jewelleries (et all), was Saint Thomas’s Hospital Charity of 1680 (rebuilt by the Church Charity 1864) Thomas Becket Hospital (further down Gilles Street opposite the Church) Saint Gilles church (opposite saint becket hospital), a 12th century church Saint Gilles School (opposite the church), built 1858-1861. Built in Victorian gothic style. Charles Bradlaugh Monument (first atheist to sit in Parliament and refused to take the oath “so help me god” but asked the speaker to allow or give him is word. This was refused and he was dismissed from he commons. He was elected four more times and each time he refused to take the oath and eventually the speaker gave in and he was allowed to eventually take his place in the House of Commons). In modern times, a member of parliament does not have to take an oath on a bible or holy book but can opt to affirm The Bantam Pub on Abington Street (was the last building on the street and was originally next to nothing but fields which eventually became Kettering Road Public library (Abington Street), cost £15,000 and was paid for by Andrew Carnegie who was one of the richest people in his lifetime Notre dame mews plaque (original building now gone) Abington Park church and Museum (st peter and st paul church) Shoe factories across Northampton (Trickers, Churches, Barkers, Crocket & Jones John Lobb, Jeffery West, Joseph Cheaney, Edward Green, Franklin Footwear etc…..) The Deco Theatre in Abington Square National Leather Collection (35 Princes Walk) Northamptonshire Natural History Society (10 Castillian Terrace) Charles Rennie Macintosh House Hunsbury Hill Railway Trust Northampton and Lamport Railway Heritage trust Hunsbury Iron Age Hill Fort Church of St Edward King and Martyr - High Street in Hardingstone (a 13C church, although an earlier church was on the site around 1090’s built by Simon De Senlis The Long Well (in the village of Kingsthorpe, where King Edward's horses stopped to drink when he rode back to London)

Once a thriving town centre now totally ruined by so called developers, congratulations.

Northampton was a great town and now it’s shit. I worked on the market in the 80’s the council ruined that with stupid rules and regs and rent prices. Worked for Phil Burdett jumpers, Doug and Gill Rawlings tights and underwear.

@gv-k4f7g5b9

3 жыл бұрын

You need to get out more. Go live in Luton and see what shit is really like !

@Titandrillmandamian

2 ай бұрын

Bro I live in Northampton don't say that :(

@steveharris7938

2 ай бұрын

@@Titandrillmandamian Man anyone who remembers the 70's and 80's would agree.

@steveharris7938

2 ай бұрын

@@Titandrillmandamian You must be young?

What a shit hole it is now 🤦‍♂️ Was a nice safe place to live when I was growing up 😢

It's so sad to see what a dreadful mess has been made of the market square, and no amount of faffing around with the paving is going to address that. Northampton could have been such an attraction if it hadn't been ruined by that awful (useless) Grosvenor Centre and that hideous edifice on the East site. Only the West side has escaped relatively unscathed. Why were councillors, architects and planners so hell bent on ruining everything? Money and back-handers no doubt.

Through time? Only counsil is a problem, because they drain money. Now renovation of market. Only connected companies will make money. We need that? NO.