Northampton 1963

a tour around Northampton in 1963, showing the wonderful shopping centre, market, the new housing estates, factory's , and recreational facilities,everything you could hope to find in an up coming town.

[@crochettycowlloyd5948]

I was seven years old in 1963 and remember the town just like that.

[@MrDarkmenace1]

Into my heart, an air that kills.
From yon far county blows.
What are those blue remembered hills?
What towns, what spires are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went.
Can never come again.
My hometown, the town I still love. In 1963 the year I was born. I now live in Cornwall, far away from a town that is not even a shadow of it's once thriving self.

[@glennmiller2103]

Take a look at it now!

[@liveanadventure429]

What a lovely place it was and as you say look now, crap hole 😢

[@MartinHammersley]

@@liveanadventure429Move?

[@estoforte388]

Not without it's problems then I'm sure, but in comparison it looks like it was thriving, especially the town centre.

[@greggordon120749]

Yes I was 14 and living in Northampton then. Why is the town centre now dead when the population has doubled? We should find the answer so that it’s not repeated somewhere else.

[@colclumper]

Any Brits left in that city?

[@barrytime-sprout8797]

yawn

[@kevinlupson6063]

all turned to shite now, very depressing..

[@bunnybuckypops]

Not many asylum seekers how bliss