Herbert Samuel Gates first advertised in Kelly’s Directory 1914, as a wholesale fruiterer. The business premises were at 208 Wellingborough Road, the family living at 1 Harborough Road.
Herbert was born at Cambridge in 1870 and his wife Jane Storey was born in Leeds the same year. Following their marriage in 1895, their first son Arthur was born in Rushden in 1896 (he later trained as a butcher). Their second son, Herbert, was born in Holloway, London the following year, but soon they had returned to Rushden where their first daughter Laura Hilda was born in 1900, followed by Nellie two years later.
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The delivery lorry being used during wartime
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The business continued at least into the late 1950s.
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