Rushden Research Group: Clean Milk Team Marriott's Farm

Clean Milk Team - Marriott's Farm

Certificate to Charles Fathers

Rushden Echo, 15th July 1927

Clean Milk
Mr. R. Marriott of Farm House, won third prize in Class 1 of the County Clean Milk Competition arranged by the Northants Education Committee and the Northants Milk Recording Society.

The maximum number of marks was 1,000, and Mr. Marriott gained 724.4.

Rushden Echo & Argus, 15th Nov 1929

These men are the milkers employed at the Grade “A” dairy owned by Mr Robert Marriott of Farm House, High-street, Rushden, and the certificates are proof of the success with which the up-to-date establishment has been conducted. Mr Marriott came second in the county in the County Council Clean Milk Competition lasting from February to June 1929, and he was the only prizewinner in this part of Northamptonshire.

Rushden Clean Milk Team - The milkers (l to r) are W. Line,
G. Bradshaw, C. Valentine and W. Harbour.

A sketch of Marriott's

Extract from memories of Mr G Abbott
That gas lamp was always a problem! Where the Hamblin Court flats now stand, was then Marriott’s farmyard. Mr Robert, and Mr Alan Marriott were very good to us children, and we were allowed to play in the farm yard so long as we did not get in the way, or do damage, which we respected, however, when the cattle had been milked and released to graze in the fields that are now the Upper Queen street estate, they often stampeded round the corner in their haste to get to the fields leaving the unfortunate lamp post leaning over at about 30 degrees. The Rushden & Higham Ferrers Gas Company would come along and fix it, and fix it, and fix it, until finally it was put onto the Denbros factory wall, where it remained until the new fangled electricity came along. The cattle also left the road quite slippery, but once into "the lane" that didn't matter.

Fire 1914