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hwlambert
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Can anyone help with information regarding brickmaking in Northampton.
I am looking for the Lambert family who were brickmakers there in 1834 to at least 1837. One child was born in Buttock Booth and one in Weston Flavell.
Where were the main brickmaking areas and who owned them.
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Heather
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behindthefrogs
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Buttocks Booth which was renamed Booth Lane by a PC council in the 1960s leads north from Weston Favell. I was born and brought up in the area and I can't remember anything which I would regard as the remains a brickmaking industry.
There was at the northern end of Buttocks Booth, actually just off Lumbertubs Lane, what we used to call a quarry where we used to catch newts. Thinking about it now there wasn't much stone to quarry around there and it could actually have been a clay pit.
While Weston Favell was an old village there weren't many old houses in Buttocks Booth except at its northern end as up to the 1960s it was agricultural land and a park associated with a large private house which by then was Mansfield Hospital.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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mgeneas
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My reprint of the 1st Ordnance Survey map shows a brickworks on the left side of the Kettering Rd, just before the turn off to Moulton (Northampton Lane) on the left and Booth Lane on the right. This is the area known as Buttocks Booth.
On the site of the old brickworks is/was a venetion blinds factory.
Marilyn
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hwlambert
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Thanks for your replies. I will follow up your leads and see if I can find out anything more.
Cheers, Heather
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behindthefrogs
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That area to the left of Kettering Road was used as a dump for crashed aircraft after WW2 and then was later became a factory site. Buttocks Booth was the first lane off to the right just before the Moulton turn and Lumbertubbs Lane the second turn which was opposite the Moulton turn.
I can't remember whether the pit that I referred to was between Buttocks Booth and Lumbertubbs or the other side of Lumbertubbs. Either way it was less than a hundred yards from Kettering Road and very close to those brickworks.
David.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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hwlambert
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Thanks David,
Do you know anything about the hospital that was a large private house originally. Was it built out of brick that could have been made on the property or was there another estate near by that could have supplied its own bricks to build the house and outbuildings.
I cant seem to find any history of the Mansfield Hospital on the internet.
Heather
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hwlambert
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Where is Weston Favell's local library and would it have information going back to 1830's or is this information kept somewhere else.
Heather
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behindthefrogs
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In terms of Reference Libraries the obvious one is the Northampton Town Library. The area that we are talking about is only about three miles from the centre of town and probaly now inside the town boundary although in 1960 it was outside.
Manfield Hospital which was originally Weston House is a Jacobean Style House built out of stone. I am no sure when it was built but Eastfield House along side it was built in 1924. The Ray family who owned it by then moved out into Eastfield House.
The grounds are now Eastfield Council Estate and Eastfield Park.
I would have thought it would be more likely to find the bricks in the cottages local to the brickworks and the Victorian expansion of the eastern end of the town around the racecourse.
David
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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hwlambert
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Thanks David,
not sure where to go from here but will keep searching. Seems they were in a few brick making areas throughout their life time.
Cheers, Heather
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