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Today Furtho is a single farm estate with company offices, but in the past it was a thriving village with its own rich history intertwined with Cosgrove's, dating back to the Conquest. Click here to see its own document page.
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Cosgrove continued
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Illustrated Talks by Wendy Page
Talks can fit or split to any length required.
Talks about named families are based in Cosgrove but are about people with national or County importance
and are good stories in their own right, evocative of the history of their time.
All talks explain how evidence was discovered and used to build stories. Contact: wendypage1@gmail.com
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Description
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The Cleley Hundred
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Medieval clues to the legal system in South Northants – based in Furtho and villages nearby
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Four Pence for a Polecat
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18th Century Vermin Laws and Land Inclosures
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The Power and the Glory
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18th Century Cosgrove Characters – Rigbys, Longuevilles, Mansells, Biggins – just good tales
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Secrets of the Poor Book
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18th Century Village poor house stories from before the work house system – also includes the Militia system
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Straight Down the Middle
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19th Century – how the canal came to South Northants and cut a village in half
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Remarkable Lives
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19th Century Cosgrove Characters – Lowndes, Lynedoch, Moorsom, Dean Mansel, Bianchis, JJ Atkinson
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Behind the Map
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19th Century detailed study of Cosgrove as it changed from an agricultural to industrial community – maps and photos
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When They Were Very Young
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20th Century Education – how rural schools and their children developed to the 50s.
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Heroes and Villains
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20th Century Cosgrove Characters – Atkinsons, Hewson, Branson, local Historians, Cyclists, Holman
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Into Living Memory
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20th Century social development in a village – Health, water, rubbish, housing, war and the recovery
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