Photographic Archive

1982

Brownies & Guides - 75^th Anniversary year

Wendy Kench, Jeni Wiltshire, Jane Hearsey, Annette Smith, Bianca Faricy, Alison Pye

Acknowledged to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo

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1982

Scouts, Brownies & Guides - 75^th Anniversary year

Christopher Attwood (foreground right) gives a tug on the rope while 75 others try and pull him over

Acknowledged to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo

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1982 - Scouts on Village clean-up

Third left is David Sutch, far right Darren Walmsley with brother Andrew third from the right in the skip.

Acknowledged to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo

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1982

Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides who took part in the Gang Show 'Three Cheers'.

Back row: Sally Beck, Lynette Eldred, Wendy Kench, Mandy Boxford, Charlotte Day, Sadie ?, Susan Kench

Front row: James Poulton, Tim Doran, Paul Boxford

Acknowledged to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo

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1937

Sheila Church, Captain of the Girl Guides at a camp at Castle Ashby. Sheila set up the Spratton Guides company in 1936 with 33 girls joining. Rebecca Belben, granddaughter of Mrs Foster of Spratton Grange, was Sheila's lieutenant.

Guides were closed in 1939 at the start of the war, but has since been re-started.

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28^th April 1996

Opening of The John Allen Memorial Hall (Scout Hut) by Sir John Lowther, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.

The Scouts had been re-formed in 1985 by Graham Smith, previously Scout Leader at Brixworth. The old Roman Catholic Church in Yew Tree Lane was successfully bought by sealed bid using Chris Saul's shop fax machine in 1992. Much fund raising and hard work was needed to raise the money to buy the Church and convert it.

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1992- Roman Catholic Church after it had been bought by the Scouts.

In 1953 St. Patrick's Church, Duston was opened, taking responsibility for the area stretching from Bugbrooke in the south to the Leicester boundary. This included the village of Spratton. Local people, in particular Mrs. Greenwood of Greenwood Stores and Dr. Nora O'Leary of Creaton were keen to establish a mass centre in the area and arranged for the purchase of an old army mess hut to be installed on land bought in Yew Tree Lane. This chapel was named English Martyrs and, at the request of the Bishop of Northampton, became the responsibility of the Franciscan order of Greyfriars, who has charge of the Parish of Duston. Mass was aid every Sunday at 9.00 a.m. by one of the Greyfriars until in the late 1980s when it changed to 5.00 p.m. Mass was also said at 7.00 p.m. on holy days. Typically the weekly mass attendance ran to around 50 people from Spratton and adjoining villages. In 1991 the Greyfriars vicar-general in England took the decision to reduce the spread of the communities and concentrate the friars in main centres such as London, Manchester and Liverpool. As a result the Bishop of Northampton was forced to close the chapel in Spratton because of the limited number of priests available. The Greyfriars decided that they held the title to the land at Spratton and sold it to the local scout group. The hut remains on Yew Tree Lane and the simple wooden cross above the door is a reminder of its former use in the village.

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1937

Rebecca Belben at a Girl Guides camp at Castle Ashby

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