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Showing posts with label Long Buckby. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Long Buckby. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Stanley Unwin is now remembered by a blue plaque at his old home in Long Buckby

Here's the great Stanley Unwin on Pebble Mill at One in 1985. He had the sense to know that his unique act worked best in short doses. ...

Monday, March 23, 2026

Deep joy in Long Buckby at blue plaque for Stanley Unwin

A good news story at last. West Northamptonshire Council has installed a blue plaque outside Stanley Unwin's old bungalow on Long Buckby...

Friday, March 29, 2019

Kings Sutton: The least used station in Northamptonshire

What's the least used station in Northamptonshire? After some thought, you might come up with Long Buckby. But you'd be wrong. ...

Tuesday, October 09, 2018

East Midlands Liberal Democrats Autumn Conference

East Midlands Liberal Democrats are holding their autumn regional conference in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, on Saturday 3 November. ...

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Long Buckby and the battle for religious liberty

I have come across a history of Long Buckby United Reform Church, as the village's Congregational church now is. One passage, dis...

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Long Buckby Castle

Take the road out of Long Buckby towards the village's railway station and you will soon come across a sign directing you down a clos...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Radical Long Buckby

St Lawrence, where Stanley Unwin is buried, was locked, but I had already found an impressive Congregational church in the village. Pevs...

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance: How Come

Yesterday's expedition to Long Buckby and the grave of Stanley Unwin has naturally put me in mind of the Small Faces. Unwin narrated ...

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Stanley Unwin's grave at Long Buckby

Today I have been on a pilgrimage to Long Buckby in Northamptonshire to pay tribute to one of my comedy heroes and to see if the story ab...

Monday, October 24, 2011

Debdale Wharf near Market Harborough

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal was originally planned to go from Leicester via Market Harborough to Northampton, there j...

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Stanley Unwin's epitaph

This is from Wikipedia . I do hope it is true: Stanley Unwin died in 2002 in Daventry, England. He is buried in the churchyard at Long Bu...

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