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Brief History of the Village from Kelly's Directory 1910
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| WOLLASTON is a parish on the Bedfordshire border, 2¾ miles south from Wellingborough station on the Northampton and Peterborough section of the London and Nporth Western railway, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Higham Ferrers, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough. The river Nene divides a portion of this parish on the north-west from that of Doddington. The village is lighted with gas from works situated at the south end of the village, erected in 1872 by the Wollaston Gas and Coke Company Limited. The church of St. Mary, originally cruciform, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, north and south porches and a central tower, with octagonal broach spire, relieved by three tiers of spire lights, and containing 6 bells: in 1893 the top of the spire was restored: in the chancel are several mural tablets to the Neale, Dickins and Shipton families, including a quaint monument to a member of the Shipton family, and a mural tablet to Edmond Neale, dated 1617: an organ was built in 1898 at a cost of £345: the body of the church and the chancel were rebuilt in 1737: the tower arches, previously obscured by unnecessary rubble work and defaced, and also the north transept have been restored, and the chancel in 1903 at a cost of £389: the church was re-seated in 1894 and now affords 1,000 sittings. The register dates from the year 1663. The living is a discharged vicarage, separated from that of Irchester, June 21, 1880, net yearly value £190, including 118 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Harcourt Morley Isaac Powell B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Baptist chapel, built in 1867, seats 280 persons; the Wesleyan chapel, built in 1840, affords 250 sittings. The Congregational chapel, founded in 1775, was re-opened in 1900; it has 200 sittings. The charities amount to £21 11s. yearly, derived from legacies of Mr. Bettles and a rent-charge on the land of Mr. Whitehead; of this sum £4 is expended in providing books for the choir and the remainder in food for the poor. The Wollaston Club and Coffee tavern, opened in Nov. 1893, has reading and news rooms and a Billiard room; there are about 160 members. Boot and shoe making is the principal industry here, and affords employment to a large number of the inhabitants; others are engaged in agriculture, and in making mats of the rushes which grow in the Nene and neighbouring streams. South-South-west of the church is Beacon Hill, a high conical mound about half-an-acre in extent, planted with shrubs and trees. Wollaston Hall, the seat of Col. Joseph Hill D.L., J.P. is a mansion of stone, pleasantly situated in park-like grounds, a little to the east of the church. The principal landowners are Earl Spencer K.G., P.C., Col. Joseph Hill D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, William Whitehead, sen. esq., G. B. Burnham esq., the Rev. H. C. Burnham, Miss Thompson, A. T. A. Price esq., Arthur Corrie Keep esq., of 14 Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London W, St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Christ's Hospital. The soil is of a good fertile mixed character; substratum, great oolite limestone, sand, ironstone and upper lias clay. The chief crops are cereals and turnips; there is much pasture land used for grazing purposes. The area is 3,040 acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £8,807; the population in 1891 was 1,904, and in 1901, 2,308. |
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Sexton, Edward Letts.
Post, M. 0. & T. Office—Frank Reynolds, sub-post-master. Letters arrive from Wellingborough at 6 a.m. & 12.5 p.m.; Sundays, 6 a.m.; dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & 5.40 & 7.15 p.m.; Sundays, 11.45a.m.
Wall Letter Boxes—South street, cleared at 10.5 a.m. & 5.25 & 7 p.m.; Sundays, 11.40 a.m.; London road, cleared at 10.10 a.m. & 5.30 & 7.5 p.m.; Sundays, 11.45 a.m.
Assistant Overseer, Christopher Rivett
Police Station, Geo. Wm. Brumby, constable in charge
Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), built, including master's house, in 1872-3, at a cost of £2,712; in 1894 the old infants' school was converted into class-rooms for the mixed school & in 1904 a central hall & two class-rooms were added, making accommodation for about 400 children; average attendance (mixed), 380; Henry Speight, master. A new Infants' School was built in 1894, at a cost of £2,300, for 250 children; average attendance, 240; Miss M. A. Daft, mistress.
Attendance Officer, Thomas Large, Wellingborough.
Carriers—Northampton, Arthur Peck, every wed. & sat. & Arthur Summerlin, wed. & sat.; Wellingborough, Arthur Peck, twice daily & William Darnell, twice daily.
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| Residents |
| Private Residents |
| Baxter Stephen Edward |
| Harris William Alfred Philidor |
| Hill Col. Joseph C.B., D.L., J.P., Wollaston hall |
| Keep Misses |
| Knibb Miss, The Hill |
| Marshall Rev. George (Cong) |
| Pell The Misses |
| Powell Rev. Harcourt Morley Isaac B.A. (vicar) |
| Sanders John Nethercote |
| Sanders Watkin Owen |
| Watts Mrs. M |
| Weeks Rev. Walter Archibald (Baptist) |
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| Commercial |
| Austin Luther, boot manufacturer |
| Barker Hy. C. Marquess of Granby P.H |
| Barnes Charles, general dealer |
| Baxter Stephen Edward L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., physician & surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator Wollaston district, Wellingborough union & certifying factory surgeon |
| Boyson Edwin Thomas, farrier |
| Brown Charles, shopkeeper |
| Brown George Edwin, builder |
| Brown Thomas Martin, baker |
| Cooke William James, Nag's Head hotel, tax collector & agent for P. Phipps & Co.'s ales & stout |
| Cooper Frederick, builder |
| Cooper Robert, boot & shoe maker |
| Cooper William, dairyman |
| Co-operative Industrial Provident Society Limited |
| Darnell Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
| Darnell Jesse, currier |
| Denton George, boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Drage Ephraim, hair dresser |
| Drage William, shopkeeper |
| Fowler Alma (Mrs.), currier |
| Frost Frank, farm bailiff to Col. J. Hill J.P |
| Goff Thomas, farmer |
| Haddon Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer |
| Harris Arthur Edward, farmer & grazier |
| Harrison Frederick, grocer |
| Holley Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker |
| Howe Ernest, hair dresser |
| Jones Amelia (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
| Jones Septimus, insurance agent |
| Jones Sarah (Mrs.), thrashing machine proprietor |
| Lack Frederick, shopkeeper |
| Lovell W. & Son, wheelwrights |
| Lucas Joseph, general smith |
| Luck Albert, shopkeeper |
| Lucy Hugh John, jobmaster |
| Lyman William, chimney sweeper |
| Murdin Frederick, baker |
| Murdin Isaac, shopkeeper |
| Murdin Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
| Nicholls Arthur Charles, Bell inn |
| Northamptonshire Productive Society Limited, boot & shoe manufacturers |
| Northamptonshire Union Bank Limited, (branch) (T. Harrison, manager); attends on fridays 10 to 12; draw on Williams Deacon's Bank Limited, London E C |
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| Commercial |
| Packwood Louis, beer retailer |
| Palmer Albert, shopkeeper |
| Partridge Arthur Watkin, boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Pettit Harry, insurance agent |
| Philip Bros. boot & shoe manufacturers |
| Pitts Edward James & Alfred, boot & shoe manufacturers |
| Pollard David, Crispin Arms P.H |
| Pratt William, shopkeeper |
| Rice Charles, shoe agent |
| Rivett Brothers, builders |
| Rivett Alfred, boot & shoe maker |
| Rivett Christopher, boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Rivett Lewis, jobmaster |
| Sanders Cecil Nethercote, farmer |
| Sanders John Nethercote, farmer & grazier |
| Sanders Mary (Miss), school for young ladies |
| Sanders Watkin Owen, farmer |
| Shelton James Edwin & Lauder, boot & shoe manufacturers |
| Shelton Frederick, boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Shelton George, boot & shoe manufacturer, Eastfleld works |
| Shelton William, boot & shoe manufacturer |
| Sherwood George Edmund, cycle repairer |
| Sherwood Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
| Smart Amos, farmer |
| Smith Charles, farm bailiff to William Whitehead esq. Wollaston lodge |
| Smith Matthew, beer retailer |
| Speight William, saddle & harness maker |
| Stubbs John William, fishmonger |
| Summerlin John & Charles, shoeing & general smiths |
| Summerlin Mark, shopkeeper |
| Talbot Florence (Mrs.), shopkeeper |
| Tarry Elizabeth, (Mrs.), farmer & grazier |
| Travell Frederick, dairyman |
| Wainwright Edward, farm bailiff to William S. Gibbard esq |
| Watts Jas. plumber, glazier & painter |
| Williams James, butcher |
| Wollaston Club & Coffee Tavern (George Green, manager) |
| Wollaston Excelsior Band Club & Institute Limited |
| Wollaston Gas, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd. (Thomas Archer, sec.; Geo. Henry Green, manager) |
| Wollaston Working Men's Club Ltd. (John Green, sec) |
| Woods John, shopkeeper |
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