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This is a one place study looking at one house-Spring Hill, Broad Green, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Covering the years c1830-1945 it will look at how the house and its use changed over the years and at the lives of the people who lived there. It will also look at changes in the area of Broad Green over the same time period. Spring Hill, was the large Victorian house which stood on the land where the development of flats and maisonettes in which I live along now stand. I do not know exactly when it was built or by whom but it does not appear of a map of the area in 1803 or on Bryant's map of Northamptonshire in 1824. It is first mentioned in newspaper reports in 1846 when it is referred to as "Spring Hill Cottage". So it was probably built in the 1830/40s. I am not sure that "cottage" is the right description when Spring Hill Cottage Wellingborough is described in a sale advert in the Northampton Mercury of 15 January 1853 as having " a ...