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Primrose Hill, WELLINGBOROUGH, NN9 6LY

A residential street a short walk from Raunds town centre.

I was delivering a lorry load of timber roof trusses to a site just behind the camera, so while my lorry was being unloaded (for four whole hours) I nipped out with my camera and got a few pictures of the area.

A small terrace of cottages, built (according to the stone on the top corner of the furthest house) in 1900 and now looking a little the worse for wear. The far house without a bay window appears at one time to have been a small shop.

This is what I spent most of today doing. The crane is unloading timber roof trusses, one at a time, from my trailer and lifting them onto the roof of the partially built bungalow to the left of the shot.

A closer view of the bungalow I was delivering the roof timbers of. At this point, none have been lifted onto the brickwork. I take my hat off to the crane driver, who managed to unload 25 enormous roof trusses and two packs of timber without once touching the rat's nest of telegraph cables which were directly above the lorry!

Looking North up Brook St. Raunds, Northants.

I was delivering a lorry load of timber roof trusses to a site just around the corner, so while my lorry was being unloaded (for four whole hours) I nipped out with my camera and got a few pictures of the area.

The attractive Millennium Gate at Raunds, Northants.

Brook Street, Raunds, Northants.

Raunds was one of the county's foremost shoemaking towns, specialising in boots for the British army. Work fluctuated according to demand and wages were low, often undercut by competition. In 1905 there was a strike and 115 men marched to London to present their grievances to Parliament. The words on the plaque are as follows: On Monday, 8th May 1905, 115 striking army boot makers left Raunds to march to London to present their case of poor wages to the Secretary of State for War, Mr Arnold Foster. The march was organised and led by Councillor James Gribble. They marched through Bedford, Luton, Harpenden, St Albans and Watford, reaching London on Friday, 12th May, but the War Minister refused to meet them. However a small party was allowed into the Houses of Parliament. On Sunday, 14th May, a mass rally was held in Trafalgar Square attended by 10,000 sympathizers. On Monday, 15th May, the marchers started back to Raunds. Most notably, the strike and march won the principle which had been sought - a standard rate of pay accepted and enforced by the War Office.