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It doesn't look much does it? "Army Book 138", which may well have been obtained by my Grandfather during WWI, was turned into my Father's Sketch Book: I believe he started using it in 1922.

I have decided to make the sketches available for viewing and they are actually shown larger than life size, the original book being approxinately seven inches by five inches. Most scenes depicted are in Northamptonshire and where possible they are identified. The original sketches were all in pencil but many have been inked over.

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1 A bridge near Billing
2 Whiston Church and Grendon
3 Between Earls Barton and Doddington
4 Towards Appleby gate from Wellingborough
5 Near Mears Ashby
6 From Mears Ashby crossroads at Earls Barton
7 Weedon to Brockhall
8 Sacred Circle, Brockhall
9 Porters Lodge, Castle Ashby
10 Weedon to Brockhall
11 Queen Eleanor's Cross, Northampton
12 Hinwick Hall
13 Irchester
14 St. Peter's Church, Weedon. Where I was Baptised
15 Dungee Corner, Hinwick
16 Eastern Maudit Golf Club
17 A trans Atlantic small boat
18 Everdon Stubbs
19 Castle Ashby
20 Near Grendon
21 Jona and the Wale, Turvey
22 Hardwick Church
23 Safety Racer at Wembley
24 Wembley Exhibition views
25 St. Neots
26 St. Neots Church
27 Yardley Hastings
28 Alperton, near Wembley
29 Near Cranford
30 Rockingham Castle
31 J Bland and Sons, Stanwick
32 Floods at Irthlingborough
33 Looks like a memorial somewhere
34 Woburn Sands
35 Castle Dykes
36 Radio masts at Hillmorton
37 Newnham Hill
38 Someone resting at Castle Dykes
39 Barn at Castle Dykes
40 Banbury and the road from Chipping Norton to Woodford Halse
41 Radio masts at Hillmorton and Daventry and a road at Preston Capes
42 Another view of the masts and Old Duston
43 Great Houghton
44 Gog
45 Cowper's Oak
46 Sorry, no idea
47 Upton Church
48 Back Lane, Weedon
49 The Great Ouse at Sharnbrook
50 Three-wheel cart at Sharnbrook
51 Bridge over river at Sharnbrook
52 Ruins in Fawsley Park
53 View from the water works at Towcester
54 Toll Gate House, Weedon
55 Radio masts at Daventry
56 Easter Monday 1927, a picnic
57 Easter Monday 1927, a gateway
58 Castle Dykes
59 Some sort of industrial building
60 A cross somewhere
61 The Church of St. Thomas a Becket, Ettington
62 Tennis courts, August 1932
63 Primus stove in tent, August 1936
64 Painswick, April 1941
65 Towards Weedon on the Farthingstone road
66 A house, September 1945
67 Somewhere in July 1946