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Denmark Road, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 5QR

Victorian terraces in Northampton.

A block of shared ownership flats called The Bank constructed in about 2008 on the corner of St Edmunds Road and Pytchley Street

A public house on the corner of Alexandra Road and St. Edmund's Road. The sign outside indicates it is for sale.

Victorian houses line this road which is part of the circuit of main roads close around the town centre. The alignment from the map suggests that it may follow the line of the old medieval town boundary.

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.

Now the Urban Tiger men's Club - hardly the function for which it was originally built.

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."

Shops on the edge of Northampton town centre including an East European grocery store, second-hand furniture store and wargaming miniatures shop.

Seen from the St Michael's multi-storey car park. Most of these premises are now business premises rather than residential. It is interesting to note the varied treatment of the chimney stacks and the dormer windows.