A hundred years ago, Corby was just a little village on the precipice of becoming an industrial giant.
Over the coming decades, the town would grow faster than any other in the country, with houses being put up at a rate unlike anywhere else.
Here’s a look back at some pictures we found in tenants’ handbooks that were given to everyone who came to live here by the Corby Development Corporation that was the driver of much of the town’s modern growth.
Sit back and take a look at how Corby used to be.
5. Honiton Gardens
Honiton Gardens was the first privately-developed, non-Corporation, street in New Corby where people could buy their own homes direct. Photo: H Cooper and Sons
6. Corby bus station
The Old bus station stood where Deene House is now, with Elizabeth Street on the far left of the picture. Photo: H Cooper and Sons
7. Honiton Gardens
Private developers check on the work in Honiton Gardens in the mid 1950s. Photo: H Cooper and Son
8. Corby Town Centre
Corby town centre in the very early 50s, with Corporation Street running horizontally, The Saxon Crown at the bottom right and the land on which Willow Place now stands, undeveloped. Photo: National World