Thoughts of Christmas begin at Lamport Hall

The year seems to have raced by in a flurry of events and thousands of visitors enjoying the beautiful surroundings of Lamport Hall. As we approach our Christmas events, we are really looking forward to welcoming more of you during the most wonderful time of the year. On Saturday 23rd November we welcome Beckis Cooper for a performance of Unversed – a one-woman Stratford-commissioned solo Shakespeare show. Unversed was commissioned and created for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio for Keats House in Hampstead where it premiered to great reviews and has since toured to Doctor Johnson’s House in..

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Steffan’s Jewellers Announces Closure After Nearly 50 Years in Northampton

Steffan’s Jewellers, a cherished fixture in Northampton since 1976, has announced its impending closure, marking the end of nearly five decades of trading. The farewell will commence with an exclusive closing-down sale from Saturday 9th November at 10am, featuring exceptional discounts of 50% on all fine jewellery, including diamond rings, coloured gemstones, gold, and silver pieces. The sale presents a final opportunity for customers to acquire Steffan’s distinctive jewellery, just in time for Christmas, and to bid farewell to owner Steff Suter. In a special guest appearance, boxing legend Frank Bruno will inaugurate the event at 10am on Saturday 9th..
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Rolling down the River Nene

Words and pictures by Laura Malpas Journey through Northamptonshire, crossing over yet another bridge, we hardly give a thought about the river flowing by, unless of course there has been excessive rainfall. Generally, the River Nene quietly gets on with its business of travelling its one hundred and five miles through the East of England to the tidal waters of The Wash. This month I’m learning about the Nene, how it shaped the land, supports wildlife, and the human settlements which have relied upon it over several millennia. The River Nene has existed for around ten thousand years, formed at..
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Meet the meritorious masters of melancholic metal

Katatonia, Stockholm’s ‘architects of existential dread’ launch a busy month for the ‘mender on November 1, and the meritorious masters of melancholic metal (their words, not ours) have had more than 30 years to ripen their sounds, from doom and death metal to soul-gripping post rock. Sky Void of Stars, their latest long-player, is the band’s 12th album, ‘...a dynamic journey through vibrant darkness,’ the band promises, ‘Born out of yearning for what was lost and not found, the very peripheries of the unreachable, but composed and condensed into human form and presented as sounds and words true to the..
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