Rushden Research Group: Leisure Index

Leisure, Clubs & Societies


Rushden Tennis Club c1960	Rushden Amateurs 1963

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Sports Clubs (see also Recreation)		Societies
	Cup Winners		Allotment Society - Annual Report
	Rushden 'Britons'		Allotments 1878
	Local Football		Allotment Society 1889
	Adult School Football		Allotment Society Prizes 1914
	Rushden Wanderers		Allotment Society Prizes 1915
	Various Rushden Football Teams (includes interactive e-book feature)		Allotment Society Prizes 1916
	Fosse Football Club		Allotments - Talk in 1921
	Fosse & Windmill 1910		Allotments Society 1986
	Horrell's Football Team		Amateur Dramatic Society 1899 & Newsclips
	Minor League		Amenities Society
	Baptist Football		Millennium Tapestries
	Rushden Amateurs		Illustrated Brief History of Rushden
	Rushden Chairty Cup Final 1897		Silver Medal 1994
	Rushden Crusaders		Caledonian Society Dinners 1955
	Rushden Juniors		Rushden and District Amateur Cine Club
	Rushden Park Football Club		Collectors Circle
	Richard Green - Footballer		Family History Society
	Rushden Football Club - The early years		Heritage Centre
	Rushden Football Club c1920s		History Society
	Rushden Town Football Club		Outing 2008
	Rushden & Diamonds Football Club		Events & exhibitions
	Football Medals 1920s - B. Clark		Further Information
	St Mary's F C 1948-1951		Mothers Club
	Walter Tull - Footballer for 'Cobblers'		Rushden Museum
			Museum Competition Winner
	Local Cricket		Museum 2009
	Cricket Club		Operatic Society
	Cricket Club Photos		Ornithological Society 1889
	Star Cricket Club 1878		Pensioners' Parliament
	Britons' Cricket Club 1880s		Pigeon Homing Society 1898
	Cricket Club Sports 1882		Poultry & Rabbit Club - 1945
	Mission Cricket 1919		Rushden Amateur Dramatic Society - RADS
	Mission Cricket 1928		Rushden & District Photographic Society
	Baptist Cricket 1930		Rushden Women's Business & Professional Club
	Mission Cricket 1919-1933 (an e-book)		Theatrical - R.A.T.S.
	Cricket KO Cup 1951		Townswomens' Guild
	Tecnic Works Cricket Team 1955
	Thursday Cricket Club 1955	Charitable & Friendly Societies
	CWS Works Cricket Teams		British Legion - Women's Section
	Interview with Arnold Maddams		Buffs
	Bowls		Cork Club
	At The Beeches		Cosmopolitan Club 1969
	Bowling 1910		Female Benefit Society
	Bowling at Spencer Park 1952		Foresters (A.O.F.)
	Bowls Match 1968 (includes a movie clip with commentary)		Free Gardeners - Myrtle Lodge
			Freehold Land Society
	Interviews - local sports personalities 2003		Friend In Need Society 1889
	Boxing		Friendly Societies Council
	Hockey 1890		Good Templars
	Sports Grounds - Works		Housemartins - Over 60's
	'Baptist Recreation Club'		Ladies' Circle
	'Impregnable Sports Ground' 1930		Lions
	Sports Day		Masonic Hall 1930
	'Commonwealth Sports Ground'		Oddfellows
	Tennis		Old Men's Club 1878
	Physical Culture Club		Probus Club of Rushden
	Rushden & Higham Rugby Club		Rechabites
	Early Rugby Football		Rotary Club of Rushden
	Rushden Rugby Team 1891		Rotary Club - Meeting 1940
	The Players 1950-2000		Rotary Club - Xmas Gifts 1965
	Tribute - Tony Goodfellow		Rotary & Round Table Xmas Collections 1955
	Mission Tennis 1920s		Round Table History
	Rushden Tennis Club		Round Table Ladies' Night 1952
	Skew Bridge Ski Club		Space Ball 1960
	Wrestling - 1961		Tangent Club
	Ken Joyce 1958		Toc H - history
			Memories of Toc H
Recreation (see also Sports Clubs)			Rushden Rhymes - fund raiser
	Air Gun League - 1930		St Crispin's Townswomen's Guild
	Air Cadets Dinner 2008		Womens' Royal Voluntary Service
	Angling - Joe Eagle		Young Leaguer's Union
	Angling Competition Winners 1929
	BMX Track in Spencer Park	Carnivals, Cornations, Fetes & Events (by year)
	Cycling		Posters for Events in the 1870s
	Rushden Bicycle Club		Event snippets 1879 - 1884
	Athletic Cycling Club		Festive Party 1881
	Beaumont Cycling Club		Cricket & Football Club Bazaar 1893
	Cyclists - c1914		Christmas 1893
	Rushden Century Cycle Club		1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
	Darts - British United Team 1957		Easter Holidays 1898
	Factories and Works Darts League		Agricultural Show 1898
	Health & Rhythm Movement		Coronation 1902
	Homing Society - 1898		Proclamation of George V as Monarch 1910
	Pigeon Racing		Coronation Preparations 1911
	Horse Racing		Coronation More Preparations 1911
	Hunting & Shooting		Coronation Celebrations 1911
	Moor Road Youth Club		Coronation Parade Photograph 1911
	Physical Culture - Ladies		Rushden Feast
	Query Club 1910		Visit to the Feast "Ruzdin" Speak
	Query Club Motor Race		Circuses at Rushden
	Query Club 1950s		1911 Parade - possibly
	Query Club 27th Anniversary - Awards		Air Race 1911
	Query Club 40th Anniversary		Proclamation Posters - Monarchs 1910 & 1936
	Rejects Club 1950		Belgian Colour Day 1914
	Roller Skating Rink 1910		Friendly Societies - Church Parade 1914
	Rushden Golf Club		Red Cross Carnival 1917
	Rushden Institute		Early Carnival Pictures - unidentified
	Rushden Institute 1901		Sporting Events 1919
	Rushden Rambling Club		Rushden Hall Opening - 1930
	Skittles Badge 1908		Agricultural Show 1932
	Spencer Park Pool - 1923		Carnival Queen 1934
	Swimming Pool Opens 1929		Coronation 1937
	Swimming Club		Carnivals & Parades
	Swimming Club in 1948		Introduction ( links to 1934-1984)
	Gala 1965		1958 Trade Show
	Swimming Pool Improvements 1968		Carnival Pictures 1950 onwards
	Echo & Argus Cup		Opening of Bandstand - 1936
	Talent Competitions - 1938		Rushden Pageant 1951
	Trials Riders - Holt Family		Queen's Coronation 1953
			1953 Robinson Road & Kings Road Coronation Tea
Bands			1953 Sartoris Road Coronation Celebrations
	Band Contests		1953 Spencer Road photo at Sanders
	Band Contest 1890		1956 Robert Brothers Circus
	Snippets		Millennium
	Mission Band		Event Snippets 1969
	Officers 1975-2006		1940s Weekend - 2007
	Geoff Wiggins - Memories of a bandsman		Christmas Lights 2007
	1947 Reunion		Hall Park
	Rushden Mission Band Tape 1993 (includes audio clips)		In the Park 1950s - 2009
	1998 Centenary Concert (includes audio clip and e-book feature)		Party in the Park
	Mission Band Uniforms		Party in the Park 2008
	Ray Clark - Biography		St George's Day 2010
	Eric Mackness - Retirement
	Mission Band Rules	Choirs
	Photogallery		Adult School Male Choir 1934
	Band Stand in Spencer Park		Angelus Quartette 1921
	Band Stand in Hall Park		Choral Society
	Military Band		WTL Flood
	National Band		St Mary's Church Choir
	Northants Amateur Brass Band Association		St Cecilia Singers
	Rifle Band
	Silver Band - Wesleyan	Entertainment
	Temperance Band		Snippets 1877 to 1889
	Temperance Band Entertain		Public Hall - 1882
	Temperance Band 1926		Public Hall - 1883
	Competitions		Christmas 1893
	1951 Celebrity Concert		Old People Entertained by Mr Claridge 1908
	1967 Concert		1909 Public Hall Concert Programme
	Temperance Band - Centenary Concert 1975 (includes e-book feature)		Mr Mills' Fairground Organ (includes a movie clip with commentary)
	Town Band		Old Tyme Music Hall 1966
	New Uniforms 1950		Workers Entertained
	Town String Band
	Windmill Band	Libraries
	Alan Bathurst's Band - WWII		Rushden Club & Reading Room
			Carnegie Library - Opening 1905
Boys Brigade & Girls Brigade			Library Minute Book 1903-5
	1st Rushden Boys Brigade		Library Rules 1905
	Wesleyan Brigades Camp 1919		Library Rules 1951
	Life Boys Quiz 1963		Miss Mantle and the Library
	Methodist Girls Brigade		Dominica Jones's Retirement
			Barbara Robinson's Retirement
Church Lads' Brigade			History of the Carnegie Library
	St Mary's Church Lad's 1910		H E Bates & the Library
			H E Bates trail
Cubs & Brownies			The Argus & other Libraries
	Alfred Street School - Wolf Cubs
	St Peter's C of E - Brownies Log Book	Outings & Holidays
	Gallery		Outings
	St. Mary's Cubs		Holidays
	The first 50 years		Travel - Snippets
	St Mary's Brownies

Guides & Scouts		Pubs & Clubs
	1st Rushden Girl Guides		Alehouses
	Guides 1983		Athletic Club & Institute - 1898
	Scouting in Rushden		Althetic Club Events
	Scouts Roll of Honour 1918		Jubilee
	5th Rushden Air Scouts		Notes
	Scout W Copson 1911		Beerhouses, Inns & Hotels
			Conservative Club 1890s
Cinema			Rushden District Clubs - Fund for Blind & Crippled Children 1914
	The first picture shows		Rushden Social Club
	Palace Cinema 1910		Town Band Club Rebuilt - 1939
	Royal Electric Theatre		Trade Club
	Royal Theatre Orchestra		Trade Club Concerts 1898 & 1910
	Royal Variety Theatre 1930		Tradesmen's Club 1828
	Interior changes for Cinemascope		Town Band Club
	Ritz Variety Show 1951		West End Club
	Interior of the Ritz Cinema		Windmill Club
	Ritz 1986		History of the Club
	Duggie Chapman's Music Hall 1972		Windmill Club Concert 1898
			Windmill Club 1948
			Festival of Britain 1951
Works Social Clubs			Windmill Football Club
	Arthur Sanders Ltd		Working Men's Club