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Histories of Northamptonshire

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  • Length of iron broad gauge railway track © NMAG

    Brunel Broad Gauge Bridge Rail

    The railway came to Northamptonshire in the mid-1800s with the Broad Gauge track of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Western Railway and a station at Aynho.

    Victorian 1840s Modern

  • Leather hobnailed workman's or drayman's boots © NMAG

    Drayman's Boots

    Hardwearing boots worn by the "kings of the road", labourers transporting goods by horse-drawn wagon for the railway companies between the wars.

    1915-52 Modern