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Susan Copperwheat
Local Focus Walks and Talks. Handmade booklets available to complement the talks.
The Well House, 31 Park Road, Raunds NN9 6JL
01933 461480 localfocuswalks.talks@gmail.com
Talks/tours
• A History of Christian Names
• Lotion, Potions & Dubious
Cures
• Spires, Saints & Celebrations
Bob Farey
• Raunds,ATown on the Edge • Remember Your Memories –
20 questions to ask yourself • From ‘Apple Gathers’ to
‘Dunromin’ the Origins of
Nicknames and Housenames • ‘Strawbear’to‘Squirt’–The
Quirky Local Traditions,Then
& Now
• Unusual Art in Unexpected
Places
• Stolen Lands – The Heritage
of Poets & Poetry in Nor thamptonshire
2 Lynmore Close, Hunsbury Talks
Meadows, Northampton NN4 9QU
01604 582248 bobfarey@talktalk.net
Douglas Goddard
34 Ashley Way,Westone, Northampton NN3 3DZ 01604 408670 goddarddouglas@hotmail.com
Talks
• A History of Abington Park, Nor thampton
• Northampton in Old Picture Postcards
• Postcard, Northampton and the Great War – The role of postcards in the war and their portrayal of wartime Nor thampton
• Nor thampton Through Time – In the Making
• Sir Thomas Tresham and his Buildings
• The Medieval Churches of Nor thamptonshire
• Alfred Cockerill – Northampton’s Forgotten Philanthropist
• How Well Do You Know Northampton – An illustrated quiz on well-known Northampton buildings
• Some Lost Country Houses of Northamptonshire (Billing Hall, Overstone Hall, Brixworth Hall, Blakesley Hall)
• The History of the Picture Postcard
• Bassett-Lowke of Northampton – A Pastime Today: A Business Tomorrow
• A History of Royal Fotheringhay • RaphaelTuck and Son Ltd,
Postcard Publisher Supreme • The Life and Art of Postcard
Artist Donald McGill • Postcards of
Northamptonshire’s Industrial
Past
• Talks on Natural History also
available
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