Miscellaneous Places Part II , Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

All pictures are presented at relatively low resolution.    Printed below each image is the photographer's name, if known.

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21-17   Inside the Burbidge timber workshop.

 (from a business catalogue)

 

 

21-18   The well known garage on the Northampton road run by Bernard Burbidge.  The fronting business is now a car sales area whilst at the rear is an industrial estate owned by John Bowen Jones.  There is still a caravan sales company on the site beyond.

21-22   In 1938 a row of 29 houses (in the foreground) along Courteenhall Way were built. The estate was subsequently extended with over 70 more houses in the 1950s in a ring called Connegar Leys (note the houses in the background).  The large gardens in the middle of the ring were then considered as valuable housing land by the 1960/70s and two of the 1938 houses, numbers 60 and 62, were demolished to make room for an access road to a new road called Greenaway Close.
21-23   Walter Alexander's cottage in the High Street.  The pattern is a very familiar one, there being more just like it on the Stoke Road.  An outhouse of long- standing has just been demolished.

 

 

 

21-20   In the late 1960s the two fields between Connegar Leys and the rest of the village were developed for housing.  A hedge can be still seen dividing the two in Oct 1968; Wilson houses in the foreground and Laurence ones beyond.  It took a couple of years to properly tidy up this area including the pathway known as Back Way (or RD2 after 1950).

 

 

 

 
21-21   Closer view of the same.

 

 

 

 

21-24   The house that was built in 1875 as a school extension to house the infants became a Men's Institute in the 1920s and later was assigned to the parish Council and then sold in 1963.  Here it is being given a face lift in 1964.

 

 

 
21-25   A copy of this Victorian picture was brought over by a couple from Australia and shown to George Freeston.  It shows a view of the High Street* with numbers 23 and 25 (1952 numbering) on the south side of the street and a view right through to the church and the rectory (1842).  What is missing is the 1875 block of three houses known as "The Gables" (nos. 27, 29 and 31) at the corner with the road known now as Church Lane.  The artist has incorporated the elm trees that once stood in the churchyard but placed them behind the rectory for better artistic appeal.

The untidy ramps up to the cottages, which are exaggerated, show that the land slopes across the street, high on the left and low to right all the way down to Pond bank.  Ramp-ways still exist today.

* see the map presented on the Great Fire and page II on the High Street, image 16-15 in particular.
21-26  A house built next to the limestone quarry behind the Stoneworks House on the Stoke Road.  It was built for the foreman of the quarry and therefore was of Victorian vintage, probably slated but here with a corrugated sheet roof.  Demolished 1950?