Event Details

Heritage Day

Of Scarecrows and other things

Saturday 23rd October 2010

Old School Hall, Harpole

Harpole, situated close to Northampton, has few claims to be of historical importance, but therein lies its charm. It lays claims to having at least two Roman villas in its environs, and a roman road connecting Bannaventa with the Roman settlement at Duston. Harpole is recorded in Domesday and has a Norman church containing a fine richly carved font, South Door and Priest's Door. The Enclosure Act (1778) removed the last vestiges of the manorial system to establish the land ownership seen today. Harpole continued as an agrarian community until the 1860s, when small boot and shoe workshops sprang up, a trade which flourished for around 60 years.

In association with:

Harpole Heritage Group

Programme

9:00

Registration and coffee

9:30

Welcome and Introduction

9:45

Harpole: An Overview,

Jeremy Calderwood

10:45

Scarecrows,

Jennifer Smith

11:00

Coffee

11:30

Archaeology,

Steve Young

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Self-guided walks around the village

15:30

Tea, close and depart

For the afternoon walks, delegates will be given handouts describing points of interest.

 

Speakers

Jeremy Calderwood, a retired sixth form teacher, is a founder member of Harpole Heritage Group.  He is an historian and parish councillor.  He has researched many Harpole families and has published four books on the village.  Jeremy is also a trustee of CLASP and will give an overview of Harpole.

Pat Betts is a former chairman and now the bookkeeper of Harpole Heritage Group.  Together with her husband Paul they travelled extensively through England, France and Belgium to visit all the graves and memorials of those villagers who had fallen in the two world wars.  Pat will be talking about the book We will Remember Them, which she then wrote.

Jennifer Smith is a founder member of the Heritage Group and has been Secretary since its inception, at present she is the Treasurer.  She also represents Harpole on the organising committee of CLASP.

Steve Young is the senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Northampton.  He is the site director at Whitehall Farm Roman Villa and landscape project.  He is a trustee and archaeological director as well as being a member of the CLASP organising committee.

The charge of £16 per person includes the cost of all refreshments and lunch. Please advise if you have any special dietary requirements when booking.

Car parking space will be available.

Ticket price: £16.00.   Click here for the application form - closing date: 9th October.