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Arthur Allen

Cambridge cottages looking west Cambridge cottages looking east
Two postcards showing Cambridge cottages - the plaque is above the boy in the right-hand picture.
Allen's shop - had earlier been the premises of shoe makers Green's. A cottage below believed to be George Moore's.
The row was demolished in the 1960s with old Dell Terrace, and a new Dell Place was built on the site in 1968.

Arthur Allen was born in 1898 when his parents were living at Woburn Place.
He started his business after WWI as a corn dealer. In 1936 he advertised himself as a shopkeeper.
Adverts - Rushden Echo, 8th December 1922
Xmas pig fed on Karswood Pig Powders
weighed 31 stone at 11 months 3 weeks old. Twelve for 1s.
Allen, 26 Newton-road, Rushden.
950 eggs were laid in six months by eight White Leghorns on Karswood Poultry Spice (containing ground insects), packets 7½d., 1/3, and Karswood Meal 7lbs, 1/9. A Allen, 26 Newton-road, Rushden.

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