Rushden Research Group: Business, Commerce & Ultilities Index

Business, Commerce & Public Utilities


Early photograph of the Co-op delivery wagon	No 2 Kings Road 1935

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Business		Mineral Water & Ginger Beer
	Overview		Mineral Water Companies 1900s
	Banks		Ginger Beer and other bottles
	Craft & Trade Patterns 1840-1940
	Trade Distribution 1847-1940	Photographers
	Tradesmen's Club 1828		C F Chapman
	Market Plans 1899		Walter Chettle - Ernest Virgo
	Rushden Market 1899		Vic Childs - & 3 galleries
	Rushden and Its Industry 1900		A J George
	New Industry Needed		M Hopwood
	Newspapers		S Powell
	Advertisers in the 1911 Rushden Guide		Willmott - Photographic
	Shopping Week 1949		Woodhead & Linnitt
	Shop Signs - lit up 1949
	Shop Fronts 1969
	Telephone Numbers 1-300	Presentations & Awards
	Trades Council		York & Pare - Gold Medal 1898
	Trade Directories - in Genealogy
	Trade and Trader - snippets
	Businesses in 2009	Public Houses, Hotels & Cafés
			Ale House Recognizances 1630
Advertisements			Inns & Hotels 1847-1940
	Advertising		Beerhouses and Public Houses
	Wanted - Old Teeth - 1899		Coach and Horses Inn
	Adverts - Xmas 1905		Compass Inn
	Milk Bottles		Sunday closing 1878 & 1887
	Rushden Bottles & Jars		Teetotallers & the Liquor Trade
			Coffee Tavern & Public Hall Co. Ltd
Bankruptcies			The Opening
	Index		1st year Events at the Hall
			Licensing
Banks			Licensing 1880-82
	Capital & Counties Bank - Lloyds Bank		New Inn
	Northamptonshire Union Bank 1889		Queen Victoria Hotel
	Nat West Bank		Railway Hotel
	Permanent Benefit Building Society		Rollie Cox's Cafe
	London, City & Midland Bank		The Restaurant
	Building Society Opens 1929		The British Restaurant
	Trustee Savings Bank		Waggon & Horses Inn
			Waverley Hotel
			Waverley Hotel for Weddings
			Westward Hotel
Co-op			Wheatsheaf Inn
	Rushden Co-operative Society
	Stores List	Post Office
	100 Slides		Royal Mail
	More Pictures		Post Office 1902
			Postmen's Pay 1898
			Sub-Rost Offices
			The Post Office 1940
Commerce	see also Businesses 2009		Post Office - Staff Notes
	Index of Early Local Businesses		Memories of Mr. J. Seckington, Postman 1873-1907
	Abattoir
	Asher Abbott Cabs to Abbott & Sons
	Abbott's Dairy	Public Utilities
	A Austin & Co - soap		Rushden & Higham Ferrers Water Board
	Brickmaking		The Search for Water
	Thomas Britton - charcoal seller		The New Reservoir 1903
	Building & Homemaker		Water Board Works Open 1906
	Calor Gas		Water Supply - history
	Chamber of Trade		Water Supply - Newsclips
	Chamber of Trade Dinner 1955		Water Board Report
	Shopping Week		Rushden Electricity Supply Co.
	Central Electrical Company		Electricity
	J S Clipson - Engineer		Opening 1913
	Fred Collins - Dairyman		Annual Report 1914
	J F Cook - Printers		Court Case 1926
	Covallen Engineers		Notes
	Crane's Bakery		Shop Signs - lit up 1949
	Curtis, D R - Printer		Cables 1950
	Roy Darnell - Roy's Pamper Room		Rushden Gas Company
	Eggs for Hatching 1905		Gas Reports 1878 - 1883
	Ellis & Everard		Rushden & Higham Ferrers Gas Company
	Engineering - Memories - early 20th century		Gas Company
	Charles Ette - baker		Proposed Purchase of Gasworks 1899
	Express Dry Cleaners		£95,000 Gas Plant - 1947
	George Farey - Musician		Gas Report - 1948
	Fleckner's - 1920s		Watsons of the Gas Works
	Fleeman - chemist		Exhibition 1905
	Funeral Directors		Photogallery
	Ginns - Blacksmith		Sanitation
	Alfred Gray - builders' merchant		Rushden Sewer Authority 1870 - 1872
	Green's Windmill		Parochial Sanitary Authority 1879
	James Guinee - blacksmith		Sewerage Works 1898
	Hodge - Builders' Merchant		Newton Road Sewer 1948
	Horse & Rider - riding supplies		Telephone
	Hunt's the Printers
	Johnson's Motors	Retail see also Businesses 2009
	Jim Knight - hairdresser & fisherman		Brief history of shops & shopping
	Samuel Knight - undertaker		Old Shops in High Street c1900
	Hamblin's Garage		Old Shops in High Street c1910
	Henry Knighton Carrier - Retires 1827		Old Shops in High Street 1930s-50s
	Lacemaking - Doreen Perkins		Old Shops in Church Street
	Laurence - Corn chandler		Index of Early Local Businesses
	Lewis - Blacksmiths		Boots the Chemist
	Lightstrung Cycles & Garage		James Britten - Baker & Grocer
	Apprenticeship 1957		Bugby - Fishmongers
	William Lockie		Mr Bye - Grocer
	Marriott's - Introduction		R H Carter 1908
	Marriott's - Builders - History		Harry Cartwright's Store
	Clean Milk - Marriott's Farm 1929		Caswell - Calland & Holtom
	Expansion 1969		Leonard S Cherry - Decorators' Store
	Mike Neville Estate Agents		Clark Bros. Radio & TV
	George Moore - Florist & Greengrocer		John Clarke - Butcher
	Nene Valley Mobile Homes Ltd		B J Collins - General Store
	A T Nichols - plumber		Coltons Shoes
	David Nicholson - motor engineer		Peter Crisp Ltd
	John Orme Ltd		Croft - Croft & Nichols
	Alfred Packwood 1910		Fairey Bros, Ironmongers
	William Packwood - builder		Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd
	Palace Motors		E A Garner - Newsagent
	George Robinson - motor engineer		A Gramshaw & Sons
	J Robinson - Tin Plate Worker 1890		George Street Corner
	Rushden Echo & Argus		Hales, Fred - grocer & newsagent
	Rushden Engineering Co		Harris's Stores
	Rushden Steam Laundry Co Ltd		Hamblin Court
	Arthur Sanders Ltd - builders		Hooton's Bazaar
	Fred Sargent - cab proprietor		Horsley's
	J Seckington - Florist		House, Jewellers
	Scroxton - Removers & Hauliers		Hustwait - tailor
	Skinner's Butchers		Iliffe's
	Chas Smith - Chemist		Ladds, John - tailor
	William Smith - farmer		Lankesters
	Sound Engineering Co.		Margaret's
	Spencer Park Garage		Maypole & Woolworths
	Summerfields Dairy		Miller, George - ironmonger
	A E Sumpter, plumber		Nattrass - Harper 1906
	Swindall's		Neville's Tobacconist, Printing and Stationery
	J G Swart - Optician		W P Orrell - M.P.S.
	Tilley's Bakery		Phillips & Sons Ltd
	Tomalin & Son - dyers		Poole's - Vacuum Cleaners
	Townsend's Garages Ltd		Quennell - Bailey Fish Shop
	Traders with Horse and Cart		Reid's Shops 1890-1950
	Tudor Ties		Robinson's
	Hugh Ward - shoe repairer		Rose's Fashion Centre
	Wargate Motors		Elizabeth Shorley - general store
	Waterwise Plumbing		Florence Simpson
	Whittington & Tomlin		Alfred Smeathers 1908
	Frank Wills - Beer House		Stimpson - Tailor 1897
	George Winters - tailor		Stricklands Butchers
	Clive Wood - Signwriter (includes 5 Galleries)		Tailby & Putnam - Grocers
	R Scott Wood - chemist & optician		Wanklyn Jewellers
	Wright & Young		Ward's Corner
			Bert Wells
Memories			T C Wheatcroft - electrical
	High Street 1905 - Doris Watts		Willmott's - dairyman & grocer
	Dorothy Rollings -1930s		Wills' Department Store
	Dubiliers - Jean Hunt		Fashion Show 1949
	Chapmans - Jean Hunt		End of an Era?
	Brian Hill - Marriott's		Horace Wills' Electrical Store
	Derek Houghton - Marriott's		Horace Wright Ltd
	GPO Telephonist - 1947-51
	High Street in 1930s - M. Cox	Xmas
	Harry Green - Icecream man		Traders - Xmas 1890
	Memories of High Street - Joyce Moore		Traders - Xmas 1898
	Working at the Co-op		Traders - Xmas 1899
	John Lewis - Electric Company		Traders - Xmas 1900
			Trade at Xmas 1949
Help Wanted - unknown pictures
	Unidentified traders	Sales
	Bakers		see the Land & Property Section