George Street junction with High Street (left) is opposite the Palace Cinema - postcard from about 1920.
The shop left of the street was Horace Wills' at 38 High Street
The door to Cleaver's Chambers at 36 High Street
In 1936 J T Parker & Son solicitors, were upstairs, with Anne's specialist gowns in the shop at ground level
Postcard from the 1960s showing Lawrence's Fashions and Denton's shoe factory (left)
As Denton's Factory c 1905
As Lawrence's Fashions 1974
As Bishops in 1977
This corner was the frontage of Denton's boot factory. Underneath the factory George Denton had built three shops, one being his own grocery shop from where he could supply his staff. In the 1970s it was one unit for Lawrence's Fashions. In 1974 the shop and factory was demolished and a new grocery store "Bishops" was built. This was then taken over in the 1980s by Budgens, and they were doing so well here that they decided to build a new larger store on the corner of College Street and Duck Street, and two more shoe factories were cleared to make way. When Budgen's vacated the High Street store it was taken on by the Co-op as a department store, with the Co-op Bank being at the back of the store, with shoes, homewares, and drapery. When the Co-op ceased in Rushden, the store was taken over as an Argos catalogue shop. The warehouse roof was the car park, and the warehouse had its entrance in Rectory Road and that part of the building is now used for computer training. [2010]
A Bishop's "Offers sheet" from October 1980
After Bishop's the Co-op took on the shop and then Budgen's came in 1991
