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