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                                      GLANCE AT
THE PAST
Eric Franklin looks back
 This “Glance at the Past” is my 100th consecutive monthly article for Thrapston Life magazine and its predecessor Jigsaw. This series began when production was taken over by Crest Publications, the editor June
invited me to write a short item on
local Jubilee celebrations, it being the
Queen’s 90th birthday. The first issue
(and Glance) appeared in the May
2016 issue and, except for the April
2018 issue which was not published
due to a change in publication dates,
has appeared every month since. Each
month I am grateful for the many
positive comments I receive from both longstanding and new residents.
I have been thinking about how to
mark my 100th and have decided to look back to the first ten years we lived in town between 1982 and 1992.
The first two photos were taken in 1988 from the old railway track bed of the Northampton Peterborough line and both from the days before the A14. The first is looking towards
   I am grateful for the many positive comments I receive from both longstanding and new residents
Thrapston with the railway bridge carrying the Kettering Huntingdon
line to Midland Road Station showing. Midland Road Station is photographed from where today would be on the A14.
The next view is of the old Primary School in 1989 just before relocation to the current site on Market Road. The red brick building with a target painted on it was the outside toilet block, something which I am sure many of my more elderly readers will remember with little fondness, it always seeming
to be freezing cold when you needed to go! The school is now a day nursery.
The next three pictures were all taken in 1991.
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