Left to right: ?, Frank Veasey, Freddie Adams, ?, Aubrey Pearson, Mr Rushby(?), Bernard Jackson, Peter O’ Keefe
Source: Spread Eagle
In the front of this picture, you can see a large wooden spoon. The Woolpack Inn in Middleton had a team in the Desborough and District Skittles League and, one particular year (1958), they were performing poorly. So, landlord Bill Haynes said: “There are two prizes, first and last, if we can’t come first then we’ll have some fun, come last and get the wooden spoon.”
Bill’s son Peter Haynes has kindly sent us this spoon, and it can now be seen in the village history display cabinet at St Mary Magdalene Church, along with other local items of local interest.
