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GLANCE
AT THE
PAST
Eric Franklin looks back
In my January article I showed pictures of locations around Thrapston – the answers are:
The High Street and Bedford Terrace signs are on the corner of Crowson’s Funeral Directors business in the position as shown. The small passageway between Crowson’s and
Northamptonshire Constabulary sign, again another reminder of the buildings’ original function. The buildings are over 150 years old and, if they could talk would undoubtably tell many a tale. A trawl through local newspapers
the Courthouse was named Bedford
Terrace as, when the Courthouse was a working court, people who received a custodial sentence were taken along the passageway for transporting to Bedford Prison where they either served their time or waited on remand for another hearing.
On the lintel indicated at the other end of the Courthouse to Bedford Terrace is the
more regular crimes, failure to purchase a dog licence. One of the main tasks for the court was the examination and grant or refusal of public house licenses.
The buildings are over 150 years old
covering the hundred or so years the Courts were held in town reveal that this area was not a hot-bed of crime, most cases involving small thefts, poaching, damage to property, a couple of cases of forgery and, one of the
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