Rushden Research Group: Woodhead & Linnitt

Woodhead & Linnitt

Photographers

The Rushden Echo, 2nd March 1917

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Woodhead and Linnitt

Late S Powell

128 High Street, Rushden.

Edgar Linnitt began as an assistant to Samuel Powell at 128 High Street. He lived at 25 Gordon Terrace in 1910.

Samuel Powell retired after his wife died in 1917, and Edgar Linnitt, MPPA, took over. He traded with Mr Norman Woodhead, who left in early 1918 (having been discharged from the army with lung problems).

The July 1918 receipt (right) was printed "Edgar Linnitt photographer Rushden".

Edgar Linnitt continued to trade at 128 High Street until his retirement in 1945.

Two invoices of Woodhead & Linnitt 1918

Alfred Thomas Watson in the regalia of a Knight Templar

Alfred Thomas Watson
in his regalia as a Knight Templar.
[Photo hand-coloured by his sister
Helen, who worked for Edgar Linnitt]

Rushden Echo, 3rd May 1918, transcribed by Kay Collins

Rushden Casulaty List — Owing to a serious affection of the right lung, contracted during Service with the Colours, Mr Norman Woodhead, of the firm of Messrs Woodhead & Linnitt, photographers, of Rushden, has been discharged from the Army.

Mr Woodhead had been doing excellent service in the X-Ray Department, and the radium used in the photography has had a prejudicial effect upon his lungs. He has been ordered abroad by his doctor, and we understand he is going to South Africa.

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