Rushden Research Group: Blue Plaques & other memorials part 2

Blue Plaques & other Memorials - part 2

Dates of the Plaques, where they are, and what they Commemorate

16	2009	103 Newton Road	Mrs Muxlow O.B.E.
17	2010	Alfred Street School	Children killed - Bomb 1940
18	2010	Salvation Army - wall	Hall in Queen Street 1888-1947

16	On 21st March 2009, Rushden & District History Society put up a plaque to commemorate the work of Alice Unwin Muxlow and it was unveiled by Mayor Barbara Jenney. The plaque is on the house where she had lived, 103 Newton Road, when she moved to Rushden with her husband who was the manager of the Midland Bank. Alice worked tirelessly throughout the war leading a team of Women's Voluntary Service workers who looked after many aspects of social work and welfare. They also made the arrangements for the evacuees who arrived here during WWII. Alice was also the first lady chairman of the Council in 1946. Mrs Muxlow's grandson, Tom attended the celebration, who, having only just returned to England from Poland, had just a few days' notice of the event. The picture shows Dr & Mrs Hadden, Barbara Jenney, Margaret Shelton (RDHS Chairman) and Tom Muxlow.
17	This plaque was unveiled on October 3rd 2010 in memory of the 70th anniversary of the bomb that fell on Alfred School and of the seven children who were killed. Many pupils who had been in school that day attended the unveiling, and following the memorial service, some photographs were taken of them.
18	Local historian Eric Fowell gave a slide show of “Views of Old Rushden”, and also sold commemorative pillowlace bobbins, to raise funds to enable the Amenities Society to put up a blue plaque to commemorate the first Salvation Army Hall or “barracks.” The hall (extreme left below) was built in 1888 on the corner of Queen Street and Rectory Road, (just five years after the Army was established in Rushden), and was demolished all except one wall, in 1947 for the widening of Rectory Road. The blue plaque was affixed to the wall in October 2010.

	The Salvationists moved to the old Congregational Church in Church Street in 1947.