Qualla: Corby https://qualla.com/corby en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Corby https://qualla.com/corby Corby: Introduction https://qualla.com/corby/ Ask someone in Corby where they are from and you may get a Scottish accent in reply, even from a third-generation native. The town in north Northamptonshire is officially in the English Midlands. By language, by football allegiance, by the names of its working men's clubs and its Hogmanay traditions, it is something else entirely - the most Scottish town in England, according to a 2014 BBC piece that simply ratified what locals had always known. The 2001 census recorded 10,063 Scottish-born residents in the urban area, almost nineteen percent of the population. A further third claim Scottish descent. The reason for this is not migration in the romantic sense. It is industrial history, written in iron ore and unemployment.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/corby-wp/gcrd-corby-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Corby: From Village to Steel Town https://qualla.com/corby/ In 1931 Corby was a Northamptonshire village of about 1,500 people sitting on a fortunate piece of geology - one of England's richest ironstone seams. Lloyd and Lloyd had begun extracting iron ore here on an industrial scale in 1881. In 1903 they merged with the Scottish firm A. ...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/corby-wp/gcrd-corby-from-village-to-steel-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Corby: Little Scotland https://qualla.com/corby/ What makes Corby unusual is not just the presence of Scots but their concentration. In most English towns that received Scottish migration the newcomers were dispersed through existing populations. In Corby the migrants formed the majority. Football clubs played in Scottish leagu...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/d/corby-wp/gcrd-corby-little-scotland.mp3 0:06 3 full Corby: The Closure That Broke a Town https://qualla.com/corby/ The Corby steelworks closed in stages through the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the major closures in 1980. About 11,000 jobs vanished in a town built around them. Unemployment reached approximately thirty percent at its worst. The same Scots who had come south for the work, a...

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