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Secret Northampton Episodes

  1.

    Who was Peter The Saracen?

    What is known about the earliest Muslim to be recorded as living in Northampton?

  2. What lies beneath the Old Black Lion?

    What clues do a disused pub give to the history of one of Northampton’s oldest churches?

  3. Watford Gap: More than just a motorway services

    Best known for its stop on the M1, this is a place of national importance on many levels.

  4. Three thinking: The Rushton Triangular Lodge

    Why three is the magic number for this iconic Northamptonshire building.

  5. The Titanic squash coach

    The tragic tale of Frederick Wright from Great Billing, the RMS Titanic’s squash coach.

  6. The Rothwell Bone Crypt

    What the depths of a Northamptonshire church tells us about medieval attitudes to death.

  7. The head and tale of Corby’s hero horse

    Ronald led the Charge of the Light Brigade and his head is now preserved at Deene Park.

  8. The Great Fire of Northampton: 350 years on

    Looking back to 1675 for the fire that destroyed Northampton.

  9. The Founding Father of Ecton

    Exploring the Northamptonshire roots of one of the chief architects of the USA.

  10. The ‘friendly Yank invasion’ of Northamptonshire

    Looking back on the US Airforce’s time in Northamptonshire.

  11. The ‘friendly Yank invasion’ of Northamptonshire

    Looking back on the US Airforce’s time in Northamptonshire.

  12. Sessions House – justice from the ashes

    The story of one of the first buildings to be built after the Great Fire of Northampton.

  13. Rowell Fair: early morning pints and play-fights

    The annual fair is said to be more than 800 years-old and boasts some unusual traditions.

  14. Remember, Remember…. Ashby St Ledgers

    How was a Northamptonshire village central to the notorious Gunpowder Plot?

  15. Re-discovering Northampton Castle

    How the once monumental castle was ‘lost’ but is now being brought back to life.

  16. Northants’ ‘grandest and most perfect’ structure

    The remarkable and terrifying story of the building of the Harringworth-Welland viaduct.

  17. Inside the house of a billion words

    Rushden is home to the Penguin Random House UK archive, which contains 1.5 million books.

  18. How Northamptonshire conquered Everest

    The county’s shoe industry played a crucial role in Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent in 1953.

  19. Daventry’s war-winning experiment

    How did an experiment in a Daventry field birth British radar?

  20. Daventry calling... how the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ spoke to the world

    Daventry’s former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ transmission station on Borough Hill, 100 years on.