Thank you for watching! It is 20 years ago now since I wandered around Northampton filming this. Even in that short time, a lot has changed.

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Trying to find pictures or footage of my old school military Rd lower school and St George's middle don't suppose you have any pictures of either of them

Just stumbled across these six gems, wonderfully put together thanks

This is delightful - thank you. The playbill for the 'opening night' was for the opening night of the Theatre Royal, or the "Rep" in, I think, 1885. The Mr McKenzie was the father of actress Fay Compton and the author and founder of "The Gramophone", Compton McKenzie.

I left Northampton in 1978. Seeing your series of video's makes me wonder if I should not come home. I learned more about the town than I ever knew when lived there. Its fascinating to see the town 18 years ago parts of it are quite different from what I remember. It must be even more different by 2010. I must come back and have a look. One small point I am sure someone must have told you by now, Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American philanthropist who built libraries all over the world.

Thank you Rob

I went to the New Theatre each year with my Gran to see the pantomime. Like the Notre Dame high school which stood roughly opposite, it was a great loss to the Northampton streetscape. Nowadays these buildings would be very prestigious offices of apartments keeping the facades for the continued enjoyment of Northamptonians.

Rob, mate amazing videos your knowledge and love for the town is unrivaled. I'm definately going to put your videos on my Northamptonshire site, so they get the visitors they deserve. KUTGW

Thanks for watching, Kelly! :-)

Yes. I spent a lot of time reading library books about Northampton, and taking notes. After so long, it'd be news to me now if I watched them! :-)

Thanks for looking, Dave! Have a great day! :-)

Great videos m8 :-) Miss the old place too.

Hi Mary! Thanks for sitting through all that. You deserve a medal! I get bored watching and listening to my voice droning on and on. :-D As for Joey the tortoise, he is just doing what he has always done, wandering around my parents' garden, eating his fill of lettuces, cucumbers and tomatoes, and the occasional bunch of dandelions. I was visiting a couple of weeks ago, and he almost fell asleep while I was tickling him under the chin. He's a character! :-) Thanks again, Mary.

Hi Kelly. Thanks for watching and for the comment. I'm not originally from Northampton, but I guess I'm just nosey, so it was fun researching it back then. Thanks again. Rob :-)

I'm sorry I didn't reply to your comment, but I think some of my YT notifications have been accidentally sent to my spam folder. I apologise for the lateness, but thank you all the same for watching and leaving such a positive comment. Thank you :-) - Rob

I don't know why I didn't reply to this 10 months ago! For that I apologise. I can only think my notifications were going astray. Thank you for the comments, even though they are very belated! :-)

Only driven through Northmapton on my way up north but you make the place sound really intersting. Thanks for this. William

Thank you for commenting! :-)

@madonetwo Thank you for watching, and true enough, Northampton continues to 'evolve', if that's the right word. Abington Street seems to have lost a lot of its character since the demise of many popular high street shops. It now seems to be full of building societies, phone shops and temporary 'pound shops' who seem to set up for a couple of months at a time to sell poor quality goods. On the plus side, we are getting a new marina built on the river in Beckets' Park. Look around on google maps.

Another comment I missed, and I apologise for it. I think there must have been a YT glitch for me to have missed replying to comments. Thank you very much for watching and commenting! :-)

Fascinating

Fantastic video .

Hi there me lickle ol' mate Sazzle! I wouldn't expect you to have to sit through all that. I'm just happy you dropped in to comment. It's an old vid, but thought it might be of interest to some. I need to make new stuff! :-D Rob x

Thanks for watching Tracy! Good to hear from you again :-) This old video was made thanks to the Pinnacle Dazzle that I was telling you about. I didn't own one when I wrote to you, but I needed to exchange an unused graphics card, and as they'd only give me credit, I chose the Dazzle. I'm having fun looking through all my old stuff! :-) Rob x

Nice video set. Truely enjoyed the history lesson.

@hothandsharrisuk I believe so. He was a Scotsman that fared very well in America. From Wikepedia: "Carnegie donated most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in America, the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees. He is often regarded as the second-richest man in history after John D. Rockefeller."

Hi Rob! Thanks very much for your glowing comments. It looks like you were a victim of the KZread message ghost, that steals messages and brings them back later. Don't worry, it's happened to me too :-) Glad you liked the vid, Rob. Thanks for watching! :-)

Thanks very much, Gary! I think if I made it today, I would have made it much snappier, but it was 15 years ago and I'd not long had a camcorder. Funnily enough, apart from a couple of shop fronts, Northampton is very much the same today! :-)

Thank you very much for watching! :-)

Thanks very much. I'm afraid it was just a part-experiment, part-labour of love that inspired me to film this at the time. It's simply a home movie scattered over a couple of old Hi8 tapes. I did have the whole film saved on an external hard drive, and wouldn't you know it? I knocked the hard drive over one day and it now no longer works. :(

Hi William. I don't know if the words 'Northampton' and 'Interesting' really belong together, but I just love checking out the history of a place. Especially as I ended up being stuck here! LOL

Thank you very much, Azumi! :-)

Carnegie wasn't a local! He was a scot who funded many libraries and public buildings in the UK and the USA.

Trying to find pictures or footage of my old school military Rd lower school and St George's middle don't suppose you have any pictures of either of them

I have considered it, but it is very time-consuming, and I'm lazy. :-)

It's, sadly, still in terminal decline. It had a bit of a boost a few years ago when they did free parking, abandoned now.

The shops were a big part of Northampton for me and sadly now Toys R Us, a few good market stalls and other shops like M&S, BHS etc. are gone, the bus station also closed and the new one isn't in an ideal location in my opinion. I will do anything to defend northampton and northamptonshire on the whole, but sadly struggle to defend it at the moment, all there seems to be is chairty shops, takeaways, gambling shops and foreign food shops.

Why were lovely buildings like the Notre Dame school demolished. My mum went to school there in the 50's and I remember walking past it when we were in town. Just a crying shame that lovely buildings are destroyed and ugly ones built in there place.