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Early photograph of the Co-op delivery wagon
No 2 Kings Road 1935
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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 - Perrott & Lacey
Rushden Market 1899
Vic Childs - & 3 galleries
Rushden and its Industry 1891
Stanley Cutmore
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
Presentations &
Awards
Telephone Directory 1906/7
York & Pare - Gold Medal 1898
Telephone Numbers
1-300
Trades Council
Public Houses, Hotels & Cafés
Trade Directories
- in Genealogy
Ale House Recognizances 1630
Trade and Industry
Inns & Hotels 1847-1940
Trade and Trader - snippets
Beerhouses and Public Houses
Businesses in 2009
Coach and Horses Inn
Compass Inn
Advertisements
Sunday closing 1878 & 1887
Advertising
Teetotallers & the Liquor Trade
Wanted - Old Teeth - 1899
Coffee Tavern & Public Hall Co. Ltd
Adverts - Xmas 1905
The Opening
Milk Bottles
1st year Events at the Hall
Rushden Bottles & Jars
Licensing
Licensing 1880-82
Bankruptcies
New Inn
Index
Queen Victoria Hotel
Railway Hotel
Banks
Rollie Cox's Cafe
Capital & Counties Bank - Lloyds Bank
The Restaurant
Northamptonshire Union Bank 1889
The British Restaurant
Nat West Bank
Waggon & Horses Inn
Permanent Benefit Building Society
Waverley Hotel
London, City & Midland Bank
Waverley Hotel for Weddings
Building Society Opens 1929
Westward Hotel
Trustee Savings Bank
Wheatsheaf Inn
Co-op
Post Office
Rushden
Co-operative
Society
Royal Mail
Stores List
Post Office - Mainpage
100 Slides
Memories - Mr. Seckington, Postman 1873-1907
More Pictures
Commerce
see also
Businesses 2009
Public Utilities
Index
of Early Local Businesses
Rushden & Higham Ferrers Water Board
Abattoir
The Search for Water
Asher Abbott Cabs to Abbott & Sons
The New Reservoir 1903
Abbott's Dairy
Water Board Works Open 1906
Abington - tailors
Water Supply - history
A Austin & Co - soap
Water Supply - Newsclips
Baxters
Water Board Reports
Bedford Way Service Station
Rushden Electricity Supply Co.
Blousic Farm & Dairy
Electricity
Brickmaking
Opening 1913
Thomas Britton - charcoal seller
Annual Report 1914
Building & Homemaker
Court Case 1926
Burton - Lyne bakers
Notes
Calor Gas
Shop Signs - lit up 1949
Chamber of Trade
Cables 1950
Chamber of Trade Dinner 1955
Rushden Gas Company
Shopping Week
Gas Reports 1878 - 1883
Central Electrical Company
Amalgamation?
J S Clipson - Engineer
Rushden & Higham Ferrers Gas Company
Fred Collins - Dairyman
Gas Company
J F Cook - Printers
Proposed Purchase of Gasworks 1899
Covallen Engineers
&
1981
£95,000 Gas Plant - 1947
Crane's Bakery
Gas Report - 1948
Croyland Motors
Watsons of the Gas Works
Curtis, D R - Printer
Exhibition 1905
Roy Darnell - Roy's Pamper Room
Photogallery
Eggs for Hatching 1905
Sanitation
Ellis & Everard
Rushden Sewer Authority 1870 - 1872
Engineering - Memories - early 20th century
Parochial Sanitary Authority 1879
Espin's Cycles
Sewerage Works 1898
Charles Ette - baker
Newton Road Sewer 1948
Express Dry Cleaners
Telephone
George Farey - Musician
Ferrersand
Retail
see also
Businesses 2009
Fleckner's - 1920s
Brief history of shops & shopping
Fleeman - chemist
Old Shops in High Street c1900
Funeral Directors
Old Shops in High Street c1910
A T Ginns - Blacksmith
Old Shops in High Street 1930s-50s
Ginns - daybook 1962
Old Shops in High Street 1960s-80s
Alfred Gray - builders' merchant
Shops in Duck Street
Green's Windmill
Old Shops in Church Street
James Guinee - blacksmith
High Street 2008 Introduction
Hodge - Builders' Merchant
Index of Early Local Businesses
Horse & Rider - riding supplies
Boots the Chemist
Houghton - Dairyman
James Britten - Baker & Grocer
Hunt's the Printers
Bugby - Fishmongers
Jacques - Florist
Mr Bye - Grocer
Johnson's Motors
R H Carter 1908
Jim Knight - hairdresser & fisherman
Harry Cartwright's Store
Hamblin's Garage
Caswell - Calland & Holtom
Henry Knighton Carrier - Retires 1827
Leonard S Cherry - Decorators' Store
Lacemaking - Doreen Perkins
Clark Bros. Radio & TV
Laurence - Corn chandler
John Clarke - Butcher
Lewis - Blacksmiths
B J Collins - General Store
Lightstrung Cycles & Garage
Coltons Shoes
Apprenticeship 1957
Peter Crisp Ltd
William Lockie
Croft - Croft & Nichols
Marriott's - Introduction
Cutmores - cycles
Marriott's - Builders - History
Elizabeth - milliner
Clean Milk - Marriott's Farm 1929
Fairey Bros, Ironmongers
Expansion 1969
Fraser Son and Mackenzie
Barry Miller - hairdresser
Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd
George Moore - Florist & Greengrocer
E A Garner - Newsagent
Geoff Morgan - electricians
A Gramshaw & Sons
Nene Valley Mobile Homes Ltd
George Street Corner
Mike Neville Estate Agents
Haigh's Furnishers
A T Nichols - plumber
Hales, Fred - grocer & newsagent
David Nicholson - motor engineer
Harris's Stores
Norris Industries
Hamblin Court
Northants Printing & Publishing Co
Hewitt, Charles
Orbit Tyre Co
Hill, A E
John Orme Ltd
Hooton's Bazaar
Alfred Packwood 1910
Horsley's
William Packwood - builder
House, Jewellers
Palace Motors
Hustwait - tailor
George Robinson - motor engineer
Iliffe's
J Robinson - Tin Pl
ate Worker 1890
Ladds, John - tailor
Rushden Echo & Argus
Lankesters
Rushden Engineering Co
Magpies
Rushden Steam Laundry Co Ltd
Margaret's
Arthur Sanders Ltd - builders
Maypole & Woolworths
Fred Sargent - cab proprietor
Miller, George - ironmonger
J Seckington - Florist
Nattrass - Harper 1906
Scroxton - Removers & Hauliers
Neville's Tobacconist/Stationer
Skinner's Butchers
W P Orrell - M.P.S.
Chas Smith - Chemist
Osborne Sports & Toys
William Smith - farmer
Phillips & Sons Ltd
Sound Engineering Co.
Poole's - Vacuum Cleaners
Spencer Park Garage
Quennell - Bailey Fish Shop
Summerfields Dairy
Reid's Shops 1890-1950
A E Sumpter, plumber
Robinson's
Swindall's
Rose's Fashion Centre
Swindall & Pendered
Elizabeth Shorley - general store
J G Swart - Optician
Florence Simpson
Tilley's Bakery
Alfred Smeathers 1908
Tomalin & Son - dyers
Stimpson - Tailor 1897
Townsend's Garages Ltd
Stricklands Butchers
Traders with Horse and Cart
Tailby & Putnam - Grocers
Tudor Ties
J S Taylor - Furnishers
Hugh Ward - shoe repairer
Wanklyn Jewellers
Wargate Motors
Ward's Corner
Waterwise Plumbing
Webbs Outfitters
Whipple Engineering
Bert Wells
Whittington & Tomlin
T C Wheatcroft - electrical
Frank Wills - Beer House
Wilburs - fishmonger
George Winters - tailor
Willmott's - dairyman & grocer
Clive Wood - Signwriter
(with 5 Galleries)
Wills' Department Store
R Scott Wood - chemist & optician
Fashion Show 1949
Wright & Young
End of an Era?
Horace Wills' Electrical Store
Horace Wright Ltd
Estate Agents
Sales
Robert Tusting - John L Wilson
see the
Land & Property
Section
Memories
Supply and demand
High Street 1905 - Doris Watts
Trade & Traders at Christmas -
mainpage
Dorothy Rollings -1930s
Potatoes
Dubiliers - Jean Hunt
Chapmans - Jean Hunt
Tenders
Brian Hill - Marriott's
Tenders
Derek Houghton - Marriott's
GPO Telephonist - 1947-51
Trade & Industry
High Street in 1930s - M. Cox
Newsclips
Harry Green - Icecream man
Memories of High Street - Joyce Moore
Help Wanted - unknown pictures
Working at the Co-op
Unidentified traders
John Lewis - Electric Company
Bakers