We were shown round 78 Derngate and the Guildhall

Other interesting houses on Derngate

78 Derngate is a Grade II* listed Georgian house in the Cultural Quarter of Northampton, England, originally built in 1815. Its interior was extensively remodelled in 1916 and 1917 by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for businessman Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke as his first marital home. Wikipedia

78 Derngate

Hall light

Backs of adjacent houses

Art

Inside a cup

Birds in the garden

Back of the house

Neighbouring garden

Bassett-Lowke's model ships

In the kitchen

In the dining room

Fireplace

Plugs

Window furniture

Wallpaper

Balsa wood construction light in the Hall

GBS who stayed in the house

Pattern representing trees

Christmas card

Main bedroom

Dressing table

Bathroom

Bathroom wallpaper

Enormous showerhead

Guest bedroom

The black one is the Ark

Part of an amazing exhibit of lace

Derngate

A neo gothic pile

Café roof - we had sandwiches for lunch

John Clare the 'peasant poet' His most famous poem is 'Child Harold'

Edgar Mobbs rugby player for Northampton Saints who formed a company of 250 sportsmen known as 'Mobbs' Own' rose to Lt. Col and died at Zillebeke in Belgium in 1917

Francis Crick

World famous molecular biologist & neuroscientist.   Discovered the DNA molecule with James Watson & Rosalind Franklin

Margaret Bondfield

Margaret Grace Bondfield CH JP was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31

Walter Daniel John Tull

28.4.88 – 25.3.18

Memorial to Diana Princess of Wales

Elizabeth Woodville meets King Edward IV

Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives.   (The princes in the Tower.)

Wedding

Wedding car

Spencer Percival PM assassinated