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Banished To The Swear Room - 22 September 2023

When the navvies on the railway construction came to drink in the village

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When Helmdon Lost Its Chapel - 15 September 2023

For so many years a place of worship and centre of village activities.

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Poems & Prose About Helmdon - 08 September 2023

An on-going collection.  Can you make an addition?

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Morris Dancing At The Fete - 01 September 2023

We had morris dancing at the fete this year but Morris dancers possibly put on a show in Helmdon as early at the mid-1850s.

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Those Were The Days - 25 August 2023

When Helmdon was the Best Kept Village In Northamptonshire

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He Pushed A Handcart Around Helmdon Selling Fresh Milk - 18 August 2023

Remembering John James Jessett

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The Second World War - 11 August 2023

A compilation of memories.

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Crafts In Action - 04 August 2023

Photography, calligraphy, bread making, pottery, needlework ..... a news cutting of yesteryear describing the show in the church in aid of charity.

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A Station With Many Flowerbeds, A Sundial, Bird-bath, Goldfish Pond And An Ivy-covered Imitation Well - 28 July 2023

Where else, but Helmdon?

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New Great Central Railway Plan On The Cards - 21 July 2023

The threat that Central Railways posed with an opening up of the line from Lille to Liverpool via Brackley

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Two Rectors Of Helmdon & Their Links With Wales - 07 July 2023
Historian Edward Parry is intrigued by this Connection.

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Campaigner's Delight - 31 June 2023
The Wind Farm Victory was 8 years ago.

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Some Names Are Of Families Still In The Village Today - 09 June 2023
A name index taken from the Helmdon Council School Admission Record from March 9th 1904 to 1941.

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The Baptist Chapel Closes Its Doors - 02 June 2023
Press cutting documenting its closure nearly ten years ago.

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Why Is Hintons Close So Called? - 17 May 2023
Read why it got its name.

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He Worked On The Great Central Railway - 12 May 2023
Jim Tugwood was as a porter and later a signalman for the company.

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"Helmdon For Sulgrave" - 05 May 2023
Memories of the Great Central Railway.

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As The Prince Of Wales Passed Through Helmdon The School Flag Was Hoisted - 28 April 2023
Geoff Ipgrave's wonderful resume of old school logbooks has a wealth of fascinating facts.

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Christmas Gifts To The Poor - 20 April 2023
... from a nonagenarian, a real friend of Helmdon.

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My Early Years In Helmdon - 14th April 2023
Reminiscences from Ann Smith, part of the Lowdown, Lockdown Project.

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The Origins Of The Reading Room - 07 April 2023
Did you know it was opened in 1888? 

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The Shape, A Ghost Story - 30 March 2023
From  the reminiscences of Kay Bristow, nee Pettifer, who lived at a small cottage now incorporated into Butts Cottage, Wappenham Road.

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Dancers Get The Strictly Bug - 23 March 2023
in 2010, and raise over £7,000 for local charities.

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The Blacksmith Was Also The Dentist - 17 March 2023
Not a great thought!

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Those Were The Days - 09 March 2023
The year is 2005, when the Carnival raised a magnificent sum - £7,562 - for village organisations.

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WHEN THE VILLAGE WAS HALF THE SIZE IT IS TODAY - 02 March 2023
... but was self sufficient with its baker, grocer, draper, blacksmith, etc.

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TURBINE WOULD HAVE BEEN TWO AND A HALF TIMES THE HEIGHT OF NELSON'S COLUMN - 24 February 2023
The village unites to see off the proposed wind turbine.

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A SECOND WORLD - 17 February 2023
Joan McCann recalls her happy days in Helmdon.

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FOUNDER MEMBERS ATTEND 35TH ANNIVERSARY - 10 February 2023
The anniversary in 2005 being that of the Women's Club, which has lately changed its name into Helmdon Together.

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THE TIME WHEN HELMDON HAD TWO TRAIN STATIONS - 03 February 2023
The memories of Elizabeth Kirwan (nee Monck)

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MEMORY CORNER - 27 January 2023
A press cutting from 1953 which instances the village in 1871 as having 656 inhabitants.

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