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Issue 139, Summer 2016
- Winter Talks reports:
- Members' Evening
- Rural industry in Northern Laos
- Northants footwear manufacturers and the 21st century
- V2 bunkers in France
- London Shoe Manufacturers in Northampton
- Renewable Energy
- Members' Evening
- Articles
- Reflections in a Bus Driver's Mirror - Albert George Wilkins (1909-89)
- Updates:
- Britannia Works, Deanshanger
- St Edmunds Hospital, Northampton
- Rail Depot, Milton Malsor / Blisworth
- Snibston Discovery Park
- Miscellany of Items of Interest:
- Birmingham's New Street Station
- Shoe firm opens stateside store - Grensons
- Former gasholder site, Northampton
- Delapre Abbey, Northampton (1)
- Delapre Abbey, Northampton (2)
- Transport charity's bid to extend track
- Plans for more railway tracks - Kettering
- Petition against change to design of new rail bridge
- Kelmarsh Hall - restoration of decor
- Of this and that including:
- Obituary: John Smith
- Dates for the diary
- And Finally