Page 30 - Thrapston Life December 2022

GLANCE AT
THE PAST
Eric Franklin looks back
To end 2022, I am looking back 100 years to 1922, the year the Peace Park came under town ownership.
The final accounts were audited and found correct in 1922 for the purchase of the Peace Memorial Park the town’s memorial to those killed during the Great War. The land and conveyancing cost £712, much of the money was raised by fundraising events and personal subscriptions. On 1st June 1922 the amount remaining owed to the bank was £89 11s 3d.
This picture (above centre), taken by Mr Worley from Raunds, shows St James’ Football Club at the end of the 1921/22 with the trophies they won. Unfortunately, no one is named. Are there any familiar faces?
On Tuesday 19th Hector Morris from Thrapston was summoned for riding his bicycle on
the highway without a lighted lamp at 12.20am at Woodford. He was fined 10s.
At the beginning of December, a report appeared in the Northampton Daily Echo stating that a mammoth tusk 5ft 4ins long was found in a gravel pit at Islip at a depth of about 4 meters. Eighteen years earlier another mammoth tusk had also been found.
a mammoth tusk 5ft 4ins long was found in a gravel pit at Islip
I trust you have
enjoyed this
series of short
local history
articles, which is nowhere near at an end. At the time of writing, I have another twenty or so possible topics in embryonic state.
This photograph (above right) of the Thrapston town pump in the Market
Place was taken on 6th September 1922. By then, it was purely ornamental the water having been condemned as a health hazard.
A couple of news stories from December 1922.
On Tuesday 12th December the 24th Annual Fat Stock Show was held with the total value of prizes awarded being £75.00.
These include:
Thrapston Baptist Church; Drayton House
and estate; Amateur dramatics; Fairs and
street entertainment including Bostock and Wombwell’s travelling Menagerie; Thrapston Banks; Old field names; Thrapston Castle; WW1 aeroplane sightings and the R101 airship over Islip on 5th October 1930; and The Hermitage.
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