Qualla: Kettering https://qualla.com/kettering 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: Kettering https://qualla.com/kettering Kettering: Introduction https://qualla.com/kettering/ In 1942 a US Army Air Force airfield opened at Grafton Underwood, three miles east of Kettering, and the local population spent the next three years learning how Americans behaved in Northamptonshire. Clark Gable was occasionally among them. The first American bombing raid of the European war flew from Grafton Underwood on 17 August 1942, targeting the marshalling yards at Rouen. It was led by a 27-year-old major named Paul W. Tibbets. Three years later, on 6 August 1945, the same Tibbets would pilot the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay over Hiroshima and drop the first atomic bomb. The journey from a muddy Northamptonshire airfield to that morning over Japan is one of the strangest threads in any English town's history, and it ran through Kettering.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/6/kettering-wp/gcr6-kettering-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kettering: From Ketter's People to the Romans https://qualla.com/kettering/ The town's name means the territory of Ketter's people, a kindred group whose name has long since otherwise vanished. People have lived on this land for at least 2,700 years. Iron-Age hill forts dotted the surrounding country from around 700 BC. The Romans came in AD 43 and turne...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/6/kettering-wp/gcr6-kettering-the-newton-rebellion.mp3 0:06 3 full Kettering: Boots, Shoes, and Wicksteed Park https://qualla.com/kettering/ The modern town is largely a creation of the nineteenth-century boot and shoe industry. Northamptonshire as a whole became famous for footwear, and Kettering's factory owners built grand houses on Headlands and Rockingham Road while their workers occupied the terraced streets nea...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/6/kettering-wp/gcr6-kettering-boots-shoes-and-wicksteed-park.mp3 0:06 4 full Kettering: Weetabix, Aquascutum, and a World Snooker Champion https://qualla.com/kettering/ Modern Kettering's economy runs on service and distribution rather than shoemaking, thanks to its location at the meeting of the A14, A43, A6003, A509, and A6. Weetabix has its global headquarters here. Aquascutum, the raincoat maker that dressed two world wars of British army of...

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