Cadet Arthur Seamarks, who left Rushden recently to enter the Salvation Army Training College, has been home on a visit to his parents, and assisted at the Army meetings.
Rushden Echo & Argus, Friday March 13, 1931, transcribed by Roy Ackroyd
Snow Accident An unfortunate accident befell Mr. Harry Giles, agent of the Salvation Army Assurance Society, of 20, Upper Queen-street, on Monday morning, when he slipped in the snow in Queen-street breaking his left wrist. He was attended by Dr. Muriset.
Rushden Echo & Argus, 12th December 1941
New Canteen - Salvation Army’s Voluntary Service at Rushden
A canteen for members of the Services was opened by the Salvation Army at Rushden on Wednesday. The former Airflo Cafe in High-street North has been secured and the staffing will all be done voluntarily by members of the Rushden S.A. Corps.
Adjt. and Mrs. Jewkes are in charge, and all departments of the Corps are represented on the committee of management.
Crockery has been borrowed pending the arrival of a quantity which is on order, but Mrs. Jewkes says there is an urgent need of a bread slicing machine. She hopes that if there is one available in the district it will be placed at the disposal of the canteen.
A former danger spot in-as-much that it was a blind corner at the junction of the Rectory Road and Queen Street crossroads, now presents this attractively developed site. The scarlet geraniums, the white seats-and a pair of shapely legs-attracted our photographer’s eye. The brightening of Rushden’s ‘bare street corners’ is one suggestion for a permanent Coronation memorial.
The Rushden Echo and Argus, 11th July 1952, trans cribed by Gill Hollis
To Citadel’s Memory A letter was received from the Salvation Army at Wednesday’s Council meeting asking that the Corps might have permission to purchase one of the seats on the site of the old citadel at the junction of Rectory Road and Queen Street and to place on it a suitably inscribed plaque.
Councillor O. A. H. Muxlow said it would be a nice gesture if the council gave the seat as a gift to the Salvation Army.
Councillor A. Green, who is an officer in the Corps, said they would wish to purchase it: “It is of sentimental interest to the members,” he said, “and we would like it to perpetuate the memory of our old citadel.”
Councillor J. Allen the chairman, then said that the council would be happy to fall in with the Corps’ wishes.
