Rushden Research Group: Leisure Index

Leisure, Clubs & Societies


Rushden Tennis Club c1960	Rushden Amateurs 1961

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Sports Clubs (see also Recreation)		Societies
	Cup Winners		Allotment Society (mainpage)
	Rushden 'Britons'		Amateur Dramatic Society 1899 & Newsclips
	Local Football		Amenities Society
	Football Contest 1886		Millennium Tapestries
	Early Football & Cricket Club		Illustrated Brief History of Rushden
	Adult School Football		Silver Medal 1994
	Rushden Wanderers		Caledonian Society Dinners 1955
	Various Rushden Football Teams (includes interactive e-book feature)		Rushden and District Amateur Cine Club
	Unknown Football Club 1906-07		Collectors Circle
	Fosse Football Club		Family History Society
	Fosse & Windmill 1910		Heritage Centre [Includes interviews with local Sports Personalities]
	Horrell's Football Team		History Society
	Minor League		Outing 2008
	Baptist Football		Events & exhibitions
	Albion Football Club		Further Information
	Rushden Amateurs		Mothers Club
	Rushden Chairty Cup Final 1897		Rushden Museum
	Rushden Crusaders		Museum Competition Winner
	Rushden Intermediate School		Museum 2009
	Rushden Juniors		Operatic Society
	Rushden Park Football Club		Ornithological Society 1889
	Richard Green - Footballer		Pensioners' Parliament
	Rushden Football Club - The early years		Pigeon Homing Society 1898
	Rushden Football Club c1920s		Poultry & Rabbit Club - 1945
	Rushden Town Football Club		RAF Association
	Rushden & Diamonds Football Club		Rushden Amateur Dramatic Society - RADS
	Rushden Old Boys' Club		Rushden & District Photographic Society
	Football Medals 1920s - B. Clark		Rushden Historical Transport Society
	St Mary's F C 1948-1951		Rushden Women's Business & Professional Club
	Tecnic Tigers		Theatrical - R.A.T.S.
	Walter Tull - Footballer for 'Cobblers'		Townswomens' Guild
	Windmill Football Club
	Local Cricket	Charitable & Friendly Societies
	Cricket Club - introduction		British Legion - new hall
	Cricket Club Photos		British Legion - Women's Section
	Star Cricket Club 1878		Buffs
	Britons' Cricket Club 1880s		Cork Club
	Cricket Club Sports 1882		Cosmopolitan Club 1969
	Mission Cricket 1919		Female Benefit Society
	Mission Cricket 1928		Foresters (A.O.F.)
	Baptist Cricket 1930		Free Gardeners - Myrtle Lodge
	Mission Cricket 1919-1933 (an e-book)		Free Gardeners - history
	St Mary's Cricket		Freehold Land Society
	County Match at Rushden		Freemasons - Pemberton Lodge
	Grenson Cricket 1947		Friend In Need Society 1889
	Cricket KO Cup 1951		Friendly Societies Council
	Tecnic Works Cricket Team 1955		Good Templars
	Thursday Cricket Club 1955		Housemartins - Over 60's
	CWS Works Cricket Teams		Ladies' Circle
	Interview with Arnold Maddams		Lions
	Bowls		Masonic Hall 1930
	Early Bowls		Knights Templar
	At The Beeches		Oddfellows
	Rushden Town Bowls Club		Old Men's Club 1878
	Bowling 1910		Probus Club of Rushden
	Bowling at Spencer Park 1952		Rechabites
	Bowls Match 1968 (includes a movie clip with commentary)		Rotary Club of Rushden
	Interviews - local sports personalities 2003		Rotary Club - Meeting 1940
	Boxing		Rotary Club - Xmas Gifts 1965
	Hockey 1890		Rotary & Round Table Xmas Collections 1955
	Sports Grounds - Works		Round Table History
	'Baptist Recreation Club'		Round Table Ladies' Night 1952
	'Impregnable Sports Ground' 1930		Space Ball 1960
	Sports Day		Tangent Club
	'Commonwealth Sports Ground'		Toc H - history
	Tennis		Memories of Toc H
	Eaton & Co - Social events		Rushden Rhymes - fund raiser
	Physical Culture Club		St Crispin's Townswomen's Guild
	Rushden & Higham Rugby Club		Womens' Royal Voluntary Service
	Early Rugby Football		Young Leaguer's Union
	Rushden Rugby Team 1891
	The Players 1950-2000	Carnivals, Coronations, Fetes & Events (by year)
	Tribute - Tony Goodfellow		Posters for Events in the 1870s
	Mission Tennis 1920s		Event snippets 1879 - 1884
	Rushden Tennis Clubs		Festive Party 1881
	Rushden Town Sports Club		1887 Queen Victoria's Jubilee
	Skew Bridge Ski Club		Cricket & Football Club Bazaar 1893
	Wrestling - 1961		Christmas 1893
	Ken Joyce 1958		1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
			Easter Holidays 1898
Recreation (see also Sports Clubs)			Cycle Parade 1899
	Air Gun League - 1930		Coronation 1902
	Air Cadets Dinner 2008		Proclamation of George V as Monarch 1910
	Angling Club
	Angling - Joe Eagle		Coronation Preparations 1911
	John Cave & Sons 1907		Coronation More Preparations 1911
	Angling Competition Winners 1929		Coronation Celebrations 1911
	BMX Track in Spencer Park		Coronation Parade Photograph 1911
	Cycling		Rushden Feast
	Rushden Bicycle Club		Visit to the Feast "Ruzdin" Speak
	Athletic Cycling Club		Circuses at Rushden
	Beaumont Cycling Club		1911 Parade - possibly
	Cyclists - c1914		Air Race 1911
	Rushden Century Cycle Club		Proclamation Posters - Monarchs 1910 & 1936
	Frederick Denton 1948		Belgian Colour Day 1914
	Darts - British United Team 1957		Friendly Societies - Church Parade 1914
	Draughts		Red Cross Carnival 1917
	Factories and Works Darts League		Early Carnival Pictures - unidentified
	Health & Rhythm Movement		Sporting Events 1919
	Homing Society - 1898		Rushden Hall Opening - 1930
	Pigeon Racing		Snippets - 1930s
	Horse Racing		Carnival Queen 1934
	Hunting & Shooting		Coronation 1937
	Moor Road Youth Club		Social Services Fete 1941 & Parade
	Physical Culture - Ladies		Carnivals & Parades
	Query Club		Introduction (with links to 1934-1984)
	Rejects Club 1950		1958 Trade Show
	Roller Skating Rink 1910		Unidentified - Carnival Gallery
	Rushden Golf Club		Carnival Pictures 1950 onwards
	Rushden Institute		Opening of Bandstand - 1936
	Rushden Institute 1901		"Tru-steel" Party 1949
	Rushden Rambling Club		Rushden Pageant 1951
	Ski Club		Newsclips & Photo Gallery
	Skittles Badge 1908		Queen's Coronation 1953 - mainpage
	Spencer Park Pool - 1923		1956 Robert Brothers Circus
	Swimming Pool - Mainpage		Millennium
	Swimming Pool Opens 1929		Event Snippets 1969
	Swimming Club		Alpine Road - 1977
	Swimming Pool Improvements 1968		Continental Market 2006
	Echo & Argus Cup		1940s Weekend - 2007
	Talent Competitions - 1938		Christmas Lights 2007
	Trials Riders - Holt Family		Hall Park
			In the Park 1950s - 2009
Bands			Party in the Park
	Band Contests		Party in the Park 2008
	Band Contest 1890		St George's Day 2010
	Band Contest at Crystal Palace 1931
	Snippets
	Accordian Band	Choirs
	Alan Bathurst's Band - WWII		Adult School Male Choir 1934
	Band Stand in Spencer Park		Angelus Quartette 1921
	Band Stand in Hall Park		Choral Society
	Cecilia Band		WTL Flood
	Mandolin Band		St Mary's Church Choir
	Military Band		St Cecilia Singers
	Mission Band - Mainpage
	Mission Band History	Entertainment
	Officers 1975-2006		Snippets 1877 to 1889
	Geoff Wiggins - Memories of a bandsman		Public Hall - 1882
	1947 Reunion		Public Hall - 1883
	Rushden Mission Band Tape 1993 (includes audio clips)		Pupils' Concert
	1998 Centenary Concert (includes audio clip and e-book feature)		Christmas 1893
	Mission Band Uniforms		Old People Entertained by Mr Claridge 1908
	Ray Clark - Biography		1909 Public Hall Concert Programme
	Eric Mackness - Retirement		Mr Mills' Fairground Organ (includes a movie clip with commentary)
	Photogallery		Old Tyme Music Hall 1966
	Music in the 1960s		Stevens Juveniles
	National Band		Workers Entertained
	Northants Amateur Brass Band Association		Mission Church - Shows gallery
	Quadrille Band		Mission Operatic Society 1952
	Rifle Band		Musicians Brodcast at the BBC 1948
	Salvation Army Band		Music Concerts
	Silver Band - Wesleyan		Snippets
	Temperance Band - Mainpage
	Temperance Band Entertain	Libraries
	Temperance Band 1926		Rushden Club & Reading Room
	Competitions		Rushden Library - Mainpage
	Centenary Concert 1975 (includes e-book feature)		Carnegie Library - Opening 1905
	Town Band		History of the Carnegie Library
	New Uniforms 1950		The Argus & other Libraries
	Town String Band
	John White's Band	Memories
	Windmill Band		Early Sport in Rushden - Mr S B Allen

Boys Brigade & Girls Brigade		Outings & Holidays
	1st Rushden Boys Brigade		Outings
	2nd Rushden Boys Brigade		Holidays
	4th Rushden Boys Brigade		Holidays 1951
	Wesleyan Brigades Camp 1919		Travel - Snippets
	Life Boys Quiz 1963
	Methodist Girls Brigade	Pubs & Clubs
			Alehouses
			Athletic Club & Institute - Mainpage
Church Lads' Brigade			Beerhouses, Inns & Hotels
	St Mary's Church Lad's 1910		Conservative Club 1890s
			Darby & Joan Club
			Rushden District Clubs - Fund for Blind & Crippled Children 1914
Cubs & Brownies			Rushden Social Club
	Alfred Street School - Wolf Cubs		Town Band Club Rebuilt - 1939
	St Peter's C of E - Brownies Log Book		Trade Club
	Gallery		Trade Club Concerts 1898 & 1910
	St. Mary's Cubs		Tradesmen's Club 1828
	The first 50 years		Town Band Club
	1950s Photograph		West End Club
	St Mary's Brownies		Windmill Club - Mainpage
			History of the Club
Guides & Scouts			Windmill Football Club
	Guides in Rushden - Mainpage		Working Men's Club
	St Mary's Guides		Notes & Events
	Guides 1983
	St Peter's Guides	Shows
	Trefoil Guild		Local Prizewinners at Bedford Show1890
	Scouting in Rushden - Mainpage		Agricultural Show 1898
	Scouts Roll of Honour 1918		Agricultural Show 1932
	5th Rushden Air Scouts
	8th Rushden Scouts	Sports Personalities
	Scout W Copson 1911		Interviews 2003
			Dennis Mddams
Cinema			Cliff Parker
	The first picture shows
	Palace Cinema 1910	Works Social Clubs & Events
	Royal Electric Theatre		Arthur Sanders Ltd
	Royal Theatre Orchestra		Selwood's - 1953 Coronation - Dinner
	Royal Variety Theatre 1930
	Interior changes for Cinemascope	Unidentified Events
	Ritz Cinema - Mainpage		Gallery
	Sunday Opening?		Carnival Gallery