12 gauge shotguns fired in the late nights, cars on fire, packs of wild dogs chasing you down the street because you had a shower and smelling like a newbie (instead of smelling like the other inhabitants)… Women getting beating (also husbands getting beaten on a friday night when no wage packet was produced) spent in the Lantern or Corby Candle…
Most of the cops were ex military/national service guys and knew how to curtails the exploits of the local population. Their cars carried more baseballs bats than the local diy store in the village (probably where they got them from…
I hear that the gas / electricity and water was turned back on a couple of years ago. Most houses have flush toilets (whether it still empties into the garden or the sewers i cant confirm)…
Oh yeah, my school / borstal was corby boys, was eventually buried under a housing estate. I used to live in Stephenson way and Burghley drive…
Ill update this page further, in time…
