Rushden Research Group: Mr. Nattrass now J Harper

Mr Nattrass' Businesses Taken Over

John Nattrass was born at Bristol in 1859. He had moved to Rushden from Nottingham with his wife Edith and their two daughters, Edith & Thirza by 1895. Their son Roland was born here in 1895 and daughter Muriel in 1898.
The family returned to Nottinghamshire.

John traded as an ironmonger at 131 High Street, an as an earthernware dealer at
46/48 High Street.

J Harper took over the business at number 48 High Street in 1906 and by 1908
R H Carter was trading at
131 High Street.


John Nattrass' shops - 46 & 48 High Street	and 131 High Street

	Rushden Echo, 12th October 1906 J. Harper having taken over the business of china merchant etc., carried on by Mr. Nattrass, is offering the whole of the stock at 5s. in the £ discount. Great sale of china, glass, earthenware, bags, baskets, perambulators, etc.
April 1906 advert

Number 131 High Street was the ironmongery of John Nattrass from 1895 to 1906.
In 1908 an advert by R. H. Carter declares he was "successor to John Nattrass".
It was the premises of Alfred Gray's builders' merchants in the 1930s.

In the 1960s the upstairs was "Thomas Hair Artist" - a ladies' hairdressing salon.

Barry Thomas, son of the proprietor ran a newsagency on the ground floor. He also sold sweets and stationery.

Thomas' Hair Artist & Newsagents

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