• 0285 High Street facing towards the Baptist Church
  • 1457 High St Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897
  • 1037 Elizabeth II Coronation Sack Race
  • 2937 Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Roade WI ladies
  • 1592 Village Green and High Street
  • 2650 White Hart outing - original of 1350
  • 0411 Bob and George Cozens at Bert Watford's cottage

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Welcome!

Welcome to Roade Local History Society’s new website.
Our purpose is to collect, record, study, and protect documents, images, physical ephemera, and events from our past of a local historical significance. We collect these for the benefit of residents, the wider community and future generations. We cover the Village and Parish of Roade and surrounding areas of Northamptonshire.

Announcements

Can you help please?


Roade History Society are looking for memories of D-Day from the people of Roade.
To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we are compiling a collection of memories from Roade people of the troop build-up or other events locally including experiences of soldiers on D-Day, which family members may have had recounted to them in the past. If it's written down, so much the better.
We intend to display these in the Library and Cripps House at the beginning of June.
Please use the "Contact Us" button at the bottom with anything you have that we can include in the exhibition.


Activities

We organise an Events programme consisting of a series of 8 talks a year normally held during the Winter, Spring and Autumn months. In the Summer we organise one or two Outings to local places of interest.

Our Projects programme is a process of research and study which normally culminates in a Talk, Exhibition or Publication.
We celebrate all our achievements during the year with a Members Lunch each January

Website

This website is designed to share as much of our past, present and future activities as we can for all to enjoy. We hope this will encourage some of our visitors to join in one or more of our activities. Please CONTACT us if you would like to know more.