Month: June 2025

St Peter’s

Pevsner thinks St Peter’s “the most interesting Norman church in Northamptonshire”.

All Saints

In the English Civil War, aren’t we lucky not to have had another one for nearly five hundred years, for much of the time Northamptonshire was the front line between the Royalist and Parliamentary armies. Northampton itself supported the Roundheads.

St Matthew’s

There are four exceptional works of modern art in Northamptonshire churches.

Spires and Squires

Spires and squires was what Northamptonshire has been called referencing its fine medieval churches and rich landowners.

Hard Cheese

Neil’s Yard Dairy was founded in 1979 and after various vicissitudes making yoghurt, ice creams and soft cheeses found its feet selling hard cheese, soft cheese and blue cheese.

Blind Corner

When the first of these things happened, that is to say upon the twentieth day of April, 192-, I was twenty-two years old, a little stronger than most men of my age, and very ready for anything that bade fair to prove more exciting than entering the office of my uncle, who was a merchant… Continue reading Blind Corner

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Mincemeat

Duff Cooper was a competent historian – for a while his two volume biography of Haig was considered a standard.

Balcony Scene

I have seen Evita at least three times since it opened in 1978. Now there is a new production at The London Palladium.