The Friends Of Northampton Castle have launched a petition – “Create a public park celebrating the history of Northampton!”. We’d encourage you to support this.
Local Newspaper cuttings from the 1927 excavations
October 13, 2020
The Friends Of Northampton Castle have launched a petition – “Create a public park celebrating the history of Northampton!”. We’d encourage you to support this.
One of our members has found some old cuttings from local papers on the 1927 excavations which make interesting reading.
Here are some links to information about the castle available on other sites. Gatehouse page Manor Lodge’s page Prospectus for Sheffield Castle Sheffield City Council’s
This plaster overmantle is on the wall of the bedroom in Bishops House. The room was built around 1650 and in 1648, William Blythe paid
Here is some information about previous excavations. You can also download pdf documents produced by ARCUS on two pieces of fieldwork. Trial trenching of Sheffield
Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to get involved. We are a voluntary group and so may not be able to answer immediately.
One Response
Why should you sign/support the Friends of Northampton Castle petition? Well I have been watching their facebook account https://www.facebook.com/NorthamptonCastle and website https://www.northamptoncastle.com for sometime.An interesting story and one which has some similiarities with the site of our lost castle.Please check it out-comments and thoughts as ever welcome.
Ron