Furniture outside A Gramshaw and Sons, High Street, is not typical of the Mothers’ Club’s complaints, but it has been mentioned. The club feels that the furniture does block the right of way to some extent and that young children might scratch.

Taken outside A. E. Hill, the High Street fruiterer, gives an example of what the Mothers’ Club is complaining about. Part of the outside display is on the shop’s property.

RUSHDEN Mothers' Club is making the strongest possible protest in the town about goods, particularly food, being displayed outside shops on High Street pavements. It thinks this is unhygienic, and causes unnecessary obstruction to mothers using perambulators.

The club secretary, Mrs. P. Penness, has sent a letter to the Rushden, Higham Ferrers and District Chamber of Trade with the full approval of her colleagues. She states: "We fully appreciate that these shops must display their wares to the fullest advantage, but we wonder if they realise how difficult it is to manoeuvre a pram and, possibly, a small child past the shops concerned, especially where the pavement narrows. [Part of a longer article]