2010

SP8181 : Newham Close

taken 14 years ago, near to Rothwell, North Northamptonshire, England

Newham Close
Newham Close
Modern houses built in the farmyard of Newham Farm.
Newham Farm, Rothwell

This was a town farm sandwiched between Wales Street, Fox Street and High Hill Avenue, with the fields a few kilometres to the west towards Harrington. In the 1950s, before the days of combine harvesters, corn was cut with a binder, the sheaves stacked in stooks in the field to dry, and then brought back to the farmyard and built in to corn stacks to await threshing in the winter, when the mobile thresher visited. Tractors were still fairly new technology, at least on this farm, and horses were used to cart the corn back to the farmyard where the stacks were built. The farmyard and garden have gone, to be replaced by houses [Newham Close]. The farmhouse, 16 Wales Street, has had a makeover, and I suspect the florally decorated lavatory bowl, with neat squares of Radio Times on a string nearby, has been replaced with more modern fittings.


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Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement Lowlands Place: Northamptonshire Category: Houses > Houses other tags: Newham Farm Modern Houses Farmyard Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Newham Farm [4] Other Photos: · Harvest gathered in - 1953 ·
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SP8181, 92 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
M J Richardson   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 27 April, 2010   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 1 May, 2010
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 813 810 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:25.2733N 0:48.3204W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 813 810
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