Photos of Old Duston

Main Road in 1885, with children in their best Sunday clothes

Main Road in 1885, with children in their best Sunday clothes

Main Road in 1898, showing Duston Chapel on the left, now the site of the United Reformed Church

Main Road in 1898, showing Duston Chapel on the left, now the site of the United Reformed Church

Duston Chapel and village shop in 1913.

Duston Chapel and village shop in 1913.

Snowbound Main Road in 1947, from St Luke’s School end

Snowbound Main Road in 1947, from St Luke’s School end

Millway in 1948, from St Luke’s School end

Millway in 1948, from St Luke’s School end

All the pictures on this page are reproduced from A History of Old Duston & Old St James Northampton by kind permission of the author J.W.F. Golby. © 1992.

See also

For a review of Francis Frith's Northamptonshire Living Memories, containing more pictures of old Duston, see Book Reviews.

To see photographs of Duston and the local area from as early as 1880, and search Northamptonshire County Council's collections catalogue online, see the Northamptonshire section of the Heritage East Midlands website.