Before huge out-of-town shopping areas and the rise of the supermarkets stocking everything you could need, and more, the majority of shops were family-owned and operated.
With a increase of leisure time and disposable incomes, the baby boomer generation had a whole host of leisure opportunities that many of their parents and grandparents had been denied.
Reader Tom Rippin, of Little Bowden, has recently discovered a photographic treasure trove documenting his great uncle, Reuben Horsley's life working on the railways in the Midlands, and further afield.
In 1965, it was announced by Harold Wilson's Labour Government that Northampton was to be one the new towns offering housing to people living in poor conditions in English cities
From the mid-sixties on, Northampton town centre was transformed with a modernisation programme which set to replace older buildings with state-of-the-art offices, shops and roads.
