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Kettering Road, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 4AJ

At the edge of Northampton town centre.

A branch of Northampton's favourite sandwich shop.

This monument, and the town's war memorial (behind the camera) stand on a traffic island at the junction of the Kettering and Wellingborough roads. The inscription on the front reads: "Lieut-Col Edgar R Mobbs DSO. Commanding officer 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action July 31st 1917 aged 35. O valiant hearts who to your glory came / Through dust of conflict and through battle flame, / Tranquil you lie your knightly virtue proved, / Your memory hallowed in the land you loved." A plaque on the rear reads: "Erected by subscriptions of admirers the world over to the memory of a great and gallant soldier sportsman. When The Great War broke out he founded Mobbs Company. Joined as a private and rose to command the battalion to which it belonged."

An unusual cul-de-sac of Victorian terraces in The Mounts.

Dated 1879.

Charles Bradlaugh, the son of a solicitor's clerk, was born in Hoxton, London on 26th September, 1833. Bradlaugh had tried several times to be elected to represent Northampton in Parliament. He was eventually elected in 1880, but as he was not a Christian he asked for permission to affirm rather the oath of office. The Speaker of the House of Commons refused this request and Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament. William Gladstone, the Prime Minister, supported Bradlaugh's right to affirm, but he had upset a lot of people with his views on Christianity, the monarchy and birth control and when the issue was put before Parliament, MPs voted to support the Speaker's decision to expel him. Gladstone's Affirmation Bill was discussed by Parliament in the spring of 1883. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Manning, head of the Catholic Church, argued against the right of atheists to be MPs and when the vote was taken in May 1883, the Affirmation Bill was defeated. In 1884 Bradlaugh was once again elected to represent Northampton in the House of Commons. He took his seat and voted three times before he was excluded. He was later fined £1,500 for voting illegally.

On the corner of Alcombe Road, Grove Road and Kettering Road.

A pub in Abington Square popular with the "Alternative" crowd.

This has clearly been a warehouse or industrial building at some stage, and seems to be the only traditional stone building in the immediate area.

The building to the right is a former Baptist Chapel, now a Chinese Ten Yen Temple.