Rushden Research Group: Elizabeth Shorley

Miss Elizabeth Shorley
Shopkeeper - 34 Brookfield Road

Elizabeth Shorley & Kathleen Clayton outside No 34

The photograph above shows Elizabeth Shorley, with her neice Kathleen Clayton, outside her shop on the corner of Brookfield Road and Glassbrook Road.
There are several enamelled advert panels on the shop walls - Lyons Tea, Hudsons Soap, Rowntrees Cocoa, Praeds Mineral Waters and aslo the road sign for Brookfield Road - and the shop windows have Rowntrees Cocoa adverts across the tops.

In the shop window to the right there are cups and saucers, mixing bowls, enamel baking tins, and in the window to the left an assorment of drapery and underwear, making this a general store.


A protrait of Elizabeth c1914	Elizabeth in her parlour room gives us a rare interior view

	This photograph shows a pony trap that Miss Shorley had hired from somewhere in High Street South, near to Florence Simpson's shop. The child standing in the back of the trap is Kathleen Clayton, her neice, and Elizabeth is next to her. The Shorley family lived at 168 Wellingborough Road, a short way from the shop, and some were born at Renold.
Family outing to Renold in Bedfordshire	Cyclists in about 1920
All we know about this picture, of a group of cyclists, is that Miss Shorley is third from the right.

The Argus often carried this advert in the 1890's - note the sign above the shop door.

FORGET ME NOT

HUDSON'S SOAP.

Though you Rub ! Rub ! Rub !

And you Scrub! Scrub! Scrub: You'll find that

It's not in your power

In the old-fashioned way

To do in a day What Hudson's

Will do in an hour

Never wash, clean, or scour without using Hudson's Soap. A pure dry Soap in Fine Powder, Rapid washing, foaming lather, leaves no smell.