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Little Scotland
The Scots' sense of heritage, as ex-pats, is often stronger when away than when on home turf. So when Stewarts and Lloyds' new workforce journeyed south to Corby, you could almost hear the pipes coming. From Highland games to haggis and from Burns to bannocks, Corby became a Scots encampment within England. At one point, it was estimated that over 70% of the population of Corby were of Scottish descent.
Clearing area for the new homes to be built on
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Their entrenched passion for soccer, with its inherent partisan (Rangers - Celtic) divide, was as strong as ever. Work was certainly the pulling factor, but football was all every man and boy lived for, each Saturday in the season; and it still is. Today, even with the demise of the steel industry, the Rangers Supporters Club in Corby is the largest such club outside of Glasgow.
Sammy Gilmour of the Corby Rangers Supporters Club, comments: "We have over 2,000 members, and at least a couple of mini-buses go up to Ibrox each week with supporters, and the pubs and clubs here take the rest."
Your comments
1 Dennis Taylor from Corby - 3 November 2003
"Yes there are or have been quite a few scots living in Corby my mothers brother cycled to corby from Kilmarnock while her older brother brought her father down to corby on his motorbike which only had one seat so the father had to sit on the rear mudguard from scotland to corby. My fathers family also came to corby in the 30s they came from the Rhonda valley,after their pit closed down. We must not forget that a number of employers were here before S&L decided to build the steel works. A local benefactor and business man called James Pain employed many men at his brickworks called the Weldon & Corby brick Co. Another company he owned quarried the local iron ore and sent most of it to Birmingham furnaces. There were a number of other companies mining local or but that soon changed when Samual Lloyd brought his company to Corby. Called the Lloyds ironstone co he had already had the whole area survayed for iron stone and lime stone deposits.He knew where they were located and he proceeded to buy up the land and where it wasnt for sale he bought up the mineral rights and made deals with the major landlords. As Steve points out these were the people who lived on the village side of Rockingham rd bridge.All those on the otherside were newcomers and thats where i was born in fact 19 children were born in my grans old Stewart& Lloyds house."
2 Ian Mcinroy from Dallas, Texas, USA - 24 October 2003
"I come from corby i left 23 yrs ago but i have been told i am in the grampian club more than the people that live there. I have gone to the bin reunion on the first one until it got changed now its at the grampion on friday oct 24, now its called the crows nest reunion for reasons only jagmac and corby knows. I am sorry guys cant make it friday ian russell mcinroy. There is a new book about corby going to be out soon its the best goes back to the good old days i mean the good old days love you all mac"
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