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Rushden
Business, Commerce & Public Utilities

An early photograph of the Co-op delivery wagon Shop at No 2 Kings Road in 1935
Early photograph of the Co-op delivery wagon
No 2 Kings Road 1935

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Business Memories
Overview High Street 1905 - Doris Watts
Banks Dorothy Rollings -1930s
Craft & Trade Patterns 1840-1940 Dubiliers - Jean Hunt
Trade Distribution 1847-1940 Chapmans - Jean Hunt
Tradesmen's Club 1878 Brian Hill - Marriott's
Market Plans 1899 Derek Houghton - Marriott's
Rushden Market 1899 GPO Telephonist - 1947-51
Newspapers 1908 High Street in 1930's - M. Cox
Advertisers in the 1911 Rushden Guide Harry Green - Icecream man
Telephone Numbers 1-300 Working at the Co-op
Trades Council 1919 John Lewis - Electric Company
Trade Directories - in Genealogy
Businesses in 2009 Photographers
C F Chapman
Advertisements Walter Chettle - obituary
Adverts 1880 Vic Childs - & 3 galleries
Adverts 1897 & 1898 A J George
Wanted - Old Teeth - 1899 M Hopwood
Adverts 1910 S Powell
Adverts 1911
Willmott - Photographic
Adverts 1915-1917
Adverts 1919 Public Houses, Hotels & Cafés
Milk Bottles Inns & Hotels 1847-1940
Rushden Bottles & Jars Beerhouses and Public Houses

Coach and Horses Inn
Banks & Post Office Compass Inn
Royal Mail Sunday closing 1878
Postmen's Pay 1898 Teetotallers & the Liquor Trade
Post Office 1902 Coffee Tavern & Public Hall Co. Ltd
The Post Office 1940
Post Office - Staff Notes
Northamptonshire Union Bank 1889 Licensing
Nat West Bank Queen Victoria Hotel
Permanent Benefit Building Society Rollie Cox's Cafe
The Restaurant
Capital & Counties Bank - Lloyds Bank The British Restaurant
Building Society Opens 1929 Waggon & Horses Inn
Memories of Mr. J. Seckington, Postman 1873-1907 Waverley Hotel
Trustee Savings Bank Westward Hotel
Bankruptcies Public Utilities
Index Rushden & Higham Ferrers Water Board

Rushden Electricity Supply Co.
Mineral Water & Ginger Beer
Mineral Water Companies 1900s
Ginger Beer and other bottles
Rushden Gas Company
Commerce Rushden & Higham Ferrers Gas Company
Asher Abbott Cabs to Abbott & Sons
Abbott's Dairy
Brickmaking
Thomas Britton - charcoal seller
Calor Gas Rushden Sewer Authority 1870 - 1872
Chamber of Trade 1948
Central Electrical Company
J S Clipson - Engineer
Fred Collins - Dairyman Retail See also Businesses 2009
Covallen - redundancies Brief history of shops & shopping
Curtis, D R - Printer
Express Dry Cleaners
George Farey - Musician Boots the Chemist
Fleckner's - 1920s James Britten - Baker & Grocer
Ginns - Blacksmith Bugby - Fishmongers
Alfred Gray - builders' merchant Mr Bye - Grocer
Green's Windmill R H Carter 1908
Horse & Rider - riding supplies H Cartwright's Store
Samuel Knight - undertaker John Clarke - Butcher
Henry Knighton Carrier - Retires 1827 B J Collins - General Store
Lewis - Blacksmiths Coltons Shoes
Lightstrung Garage 1954 Fairey Bros, Ironmongers
Marriotts - Builders Harris's Stores
Hooton's Bazaar
House, Jewellers
Mike Neville Estate Agents Iliffe's
Packwood 1910 Lankesters
Palace Motors Margaret's
J Robinson - Tin Plate Worker 1890
Maypole & Woolworths
Arthur Sanders Ltd - builders Miller, George - ironmonger
J Seckington - Florist Nattrass - Harper 1906
J G Swart - Optician Neville's Tobacconist, Printing and Stationery
Chas Smith - Chemist W P Orrell - M.P.S.
Swindall's Phillips & Sons Ltd
Traders with Horse and Cart Poole's - Vacuum Cleaners
Waterwise Plumbing Reid's Shops 1890-1950
Frank Wills - Beer House Robinson's
George Winters - tailor Elizabeth Shorley - general store
Clive Wood - Signwriter (inc. 5 Galleries) Florence Simpson

Alfred Smeathers 1908
Co-op Stimpson - Tailor 1897
Rushden Co-operative Society Stricklands Butchers
100 Slides Tailby & Putnam - Grocers
More Pictures Traders - Xmas 1898
Traders - Xmas 1900
Awards Wanklyn Jewellers
York & Pare - Gold Medal 1898 Bert Wells
T C Wheatcroft - electrical
Sales Willmott's - dairyman & grocer
see the Land & Property Section Wills' Department Store
Horace Wills' Electrical Store
Help Wanted - unknown pictures
Horace Wright Ltd
Unidentified traders
Bakers

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