It doesn't look much does it? "Army Book 138", which may well have been obtained by my Grandfather during WWI, was turned into my Father's Sketch Book: I believe he started using it in 1922.
I have decided to make the sketches available for viewing and they are actually shown larger than life size, the original book being approxinately seven inches by five inches. Most scenes depicted are in Northamptonshire and where possible they are identified; should you recognize a place that is not identified or should you have any further information regarding any of the sketches I would be very grateful if you would contact me. The original sketches were all in pencil but many have been inked over.
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- 1 A bridge near Billing
- 2 Whiston Church and Grendon
- 3 Between Earls Barton and Doddington
- 4 Towards Appleby gate from Wellingborough
- 5 Near Mears Ashby
- 6 From Mears Ashby crossroads at Earls Barton
- 7 Weedon to Brockhall
- 8 Sacred Circle, Brockhall
- 9 Porters Lodge, Castle Ashby
- 10 Weedon to Brockhall
- 11 Queen Eleanor's Cross, Northampton
- 12 Hinwick Hall
- 13 Irchester
- 14 St. Peter's Church, Weedon. Where I was Baptised
- 15 Dungee Corner, Hinwick
- 16 Eastern Maudit Golf Club
- 17 A trans Atlantic small boat
- 18 Everdon Stubbs
- 19 Castle Ashby
- 20 Near Grendon
- 21 Jona and the Wale, Turvey
- 22 Hardwick Church
- 23 Safety Racer at Wembley
- 24 Wembley Exhibition views
- 25 St. Neots
- 26 St. Neots Church
- 27 Yardley Hastings
- 28 Alperton, near Wembley
- 29 Near Cranford
- 30 Rockingham Castle
- 31 J Bland and Sons, Stanwick
- 32 Floods at Irthlingborough
- 33 Looks like a memorial somewhere
- 34 Woburn Sands
- 35 Castle Dykes
- 36 Radio masts at Hillmorton
- 37 Newnham Hill
- 38 Someone resting at Castle Dykes
- 39 Barn at Castle Dykes
- 40 Banbury and the road from Chipping Norton to Woodford Halse
- 41 Radio masts at Hillmorton and Daventry and a road at Preston Capes
- 42 Another view of the masts and Old Duston
- 43 Great Houghton
- 44 Gog
- 45 Cowper's Oak
- 46 Sorry, no idea
- 47 Upton Church
- 48 Back Lane, Weedon
- 49 The Great Ouse at Sharnbrook
- 50 Three-wheel cart at Sharnbrook
- 51 Bridge over river at Sharnbrook
- 52 Ruins in Fawsley Park
- 53 View from the water works at Towcester
- 54 Toll Gate House, Weedon
- 55 Radio masts at Daventry
- 56 Easter Monday 1927, a picnic
- 57 Easter Monday 1927, a gateway
- 58 Castle Dykes
- 59 Some sort of industrial building
- 60 A cross somewhere
- 61 The Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Ettington
- 62 Tennis courts, August 1932
- 63 Primus stove in tent, August 1936
- 64 Painswick, April 1941
- 65 Towards Weedon on the Farthingstone road
- 66 A house, September 1945
- 67 Somewhere in July 1946