Category: Northamptonshire Rebels

The Kettering Conjuror – and Northamptonshire’s Secret Bibles

Long before Hogwarts (and even Harry Potter House) there was Thomas Fysh of Kettering – dragged before the dreaded Star Chamber for possessing what sounds like a wizard’s notebook. His crimes? Owning “a book of Coverdale’s making” (almost certainly one of the earliest printed English Bibles) and keeping “a paper drawen with fygures and circulls… Continue reading The Kettering Conjuror – and Northamptonshire’s Secret Bibles

Triangular Lodge – An Act of Rebellion

Wander just outside Rushton, Northamptonshire, and you’ll find yourself facing one of the strangest, most intriguing buildings in England. It isn’t grand like a country house, nor fortified like a castle. Instead, it squats in the countryside like a puzzle made of stone: three sides, three storeys, three gables. At once eccentric and beautiful, it… Continue reading Triangular Lodge – An Act of Rebellion