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Rushden
History & Development

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History Development

Pre-history to Domesday

 Population (census & stats)
Rushden Manors Development 1890s
Rushden & Higham Ferrers Council Plans 1888-1938
A Thousand Years of Rushden Statistics 1878 - 1897
Grade II Listed Buildings "Hearts & Soles"
Brief history of Higham Park
See also the main section on Higham Park		 To read about the growth of Non-conformity which accompanied the growth of the Shoe Trade 1881-1901, click here
The Court Estate Parochial Committee
History by J Bridges 1791 Lighting the Town 1880
Wymington Road Windmill 1793-1915 Footpaths 1880
History of Rushden - John Cole - 1838 Road Widening 1909
Hamlet of Knuston - 1838 High Street Improvement 1910
Census Act 1881 John Street area 1920
1911 Rushden Town Guide Road Widening 1930
Cemetery Report 1919 Public Utilities - see Commerce Section
Ditchford Bridge 1924
Rushden Enlarged & Beautifed 1930 Statistics
The Town in 1979 1892 & 1898
Industrial Archaeology - WEA Course 1982 Employment
A6 Bypass 1993

Census
Timecapsules
Industrial Architecture History - Essay 1999
The Vyne - Architectural Study 1999 Lost Buildings & Surveys
The Views from St Mary's Tower 2008 Some Lost Buildings
(interactive e-book feature) Architectural Survey - 23 York Rd

Rushden Hall Life in Rushden
Sale of Rushden Hall 1836

Christmas 1877 - 1882
Hall Park Gatehouse

Notes by J E Smith
Contents Sale 1929 Some Old Customs
Property Sale 1929

94 High Street South
Hall & Grounds Open 1930 Ladies Column in the "Argus" 1897

High Street complaint - 1889
Passive Resistance - Education Act 1902

Christmas Games - 1903
Rushden Manor High Street 1905
Deeds - Introduction & Transcripts Rushden's Sorrow - King Edward VII

Rushden & the New King 1910
Women's Suffrage - Meeting 1910
Council & Local Government Out of Work in 1910
Urban District Council Memories of Doris Watts 1918

News Snippets August 1919

House damaged by drought c1920
Blackberrying 1926
Fern Road 1925-35 by Peter Waring

Rushden in the 1920s & 1930s

New Beauty Spot 1930

Memories - Kim Harris
Poll Book 1695

Roy Blenco - Memories of the 1930s and 40s
Electoral Roll 1834

Cromwell Road in World War II
Memories - Margaret Clowes 1940s
Diana Werf - poem
Highway Board Report 1882 Savings 1948
Refuse Collectors Strike1890 A Fifties Childhood
Politics

The Louvre - 1950's

Memories 1970s - Peta Jellis

Visit the Feast - "Ruzdin" style

High Street Remembered 1986

Grace Ashby
Hall Park Gate House
Weather (in date order)
Polling District L - Rushden Court 1910
Weather
Reform Bill 1910 Diary Notes - Mr Ebenezer Knight 1869-70
Diary Notes - Mr Crick 1872-1881
Electoral Roll 1918 Flood 1880
Absent Voters 1918

Storm in June 1891
Absent Voters 1919

Storms in June 1900
Electoral Roll 1925 (Spring Register)

Flood - Duck Street 1903
Absent Voters 1925

Thunder Storms 1905
Rates Assessment 1928

Aurora 1907
Election 1937 Zodiacal Light 1908
A Xmas Card 1962 The Great Storm of 1916

Blizzard 1916

Earthquake in 1922
Sales (see also Land & Property Section)

Holiday weather 1922
Sale of Shorthorns 1878 Storms in July 1923
Sale of China 1893

Gale 1925
Sale of Wood 1893 Whirlwind 1925
Sale of Rushden Hall 1836 Skating to Work 1927

Heavy Rain 1927
Street Surveys & Names

Notes 1927-28 by J E Smith

Street Names in Census Records

 Snow in February 1940
Colson's Road - 1878

Street Names - 1899

 Memorials
Street Names - Origins

Blue Plaques

Street Names since 1901

 Unveiling - Plaque to Mrs. Muxlow 2009

Harborough Road 1993

 Commemoration Plaques

King's Place - A short history
Memorial Inscriptions - Cemetery
War Memorial

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