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Escape Boot

Escape boot designed for RAF pilots by local manufacturers Haynes and Cann in 1943. Northamptonshire has a long history of making military footwear.

1943 Modern

Civil War Buff Coat

English Civil War buff coat thought to have belonged to a Royalist soldier escapring the defeat at Naseby in 1645.

Stuart 1645 Stuart to Georgian

Zeppelin Bomb

First World War incendiary bomb, dopped from a German military airship or Zeppelin as part of bombing raids on Britain.

1917 Modern

Military Cross

First World War Military Cross awarded to Lieutenant OK Parker for gallentry during what is often called the blackest day in the Northamptonshire Regiment's history.

1915 Modern

Thorpe (Neolithic) Axe

The Thorpe axe, named after the finder of the Axe in the inter-war years, is a large neolithic flint axe found in Higham Ferrers.

Neolithic 4,100 - 2,500 BCE Geologic to Prehistoric

Naseby Cannonball

Iron cannon ball fired at the Battle of Naseby in 1645, the deciding battle of the First English Civil war.

Stuart 1645 Stuart to Georgian

Treaty of Edinburgh - Northampton

In 1328, England's parliament met at Northampton Castle; where they agreed this peace treaty officially marking the end of the First War of Scottish Independence.

Medieval 1328 Medieval to Tudor

Spy Radio

Spy radio belonging to Swedish national and Nazi Sympathiser Gösta Caroli, recovered when he was caught parachuting into Northamptonshire in 1940.

1940 Modern

School Wall Clock

Wall clock from Alfred Street School, stopped at 10.12am on the morning of a bombing raid which killed a number of children in the school.

1940 Modern

Oak Apple Day Wreath

Every year on May 29th, a wreath of oak Leaves is hung upon the statue of Charles II, All Saints Church, Northampton.

Stuart 1675 Stuart to Georgian

Torah Scroll

Torah scroll smuggled out of Austria following the events of the Kristallnacht in 1938. It is now on loan to the Northampton Hebrew Congregation.

1939 Modern

Northamptonshire Yeomanry Horse Model

Carved and painted wooden model of a white horse, the regimental badge of Northamptonshire Yeomanry since 1794.

Georgian 1794 Stuart to Georgian

Roman Horse and Rider Statuette

A bronze statuette of a horse and rider. This object is probably a votive or religious object left at the site of a Roman shrine.

200 - 399 CE Roman and Early Medieval