Rushden Research Group: John Cave & Sons intro

John Cave & Sons - Introduction


John Cave & Sons Ltd, Rushden pencil printed with "Commonwealth", "Kyngzone" and "Worlds Best" tradenames

c1910 outside the College Street factory on a wet day - railway wagons full of boxes for export to Ellet Kendall Shoe Co, Kansas City

Note: T. C. Ellet, president of the Ellet-Kendall Shoe Company, was born in California in 1855, founded the company in Mississippi in 1867, before moving to Kansas City around the 1890s.

Business
Fire in 1877	Standard Rotary Machine Co Ltd
Expansion 1898	Problems in 1906
Factory Place	Directory 1914
John Cave	Biographical Directory 1916
John & his sons 1889	Poem
Paul Cave to South Africa 1900	Staff notes
Contract 1900	1935
Fire in 1901	Workers 1940s
More on the 1901 Fire	Exports in 1948
Plans in 1901	1950s Retirement & Outing
Temporary Works 1901	Centenary Programme
Obituary 1904	The Cottage
The New Factory 1905	Centenary News report
Inside the new factory 1905	Snippets

Leisure
Fishing 1907	Sports Club	Tennis

click here for two interactive presentations of the Cave's centenary booklet and demolition after Eaton's closed

choose the title - then click Run to view the album

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