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Dial Farm - Bedford Road

Extract from the Baptist Church History:
Twelve members were suspended and together they set up a
Meeting House in Sept 1848 at Dial Farm, the home of George Day.
By 1851 he and wife Elizabeth and two sons were at home, one helping
on the farm which was just ten acres, and one shoemaking.

Occupied in 1909 by Mr F Whittemore

The farm was sold to Rushden Co-operative Society in 1910,
and Frederick moved to Bencroft Grange.

Dial Farm house More of the house The sundial
Dial Farm house and the sun dial on the gable wall.

The farm buildings With the pigs
With the geese with the sheep

Colin Bryant Collection - Courtesy of Rushden Museum
old farm with sundial
Dial Farm with sundial on the end wall, and row of cottages beyond.
The man with cart is standing at the entrance track to the abattoir.
sundial
Sundial on the Farm wall

Bedford Road

Rushden Echo, February 8th 1924, transcribed by Kay Collins

Housing—A fair number of plots on the Rushden Co-operative Society’s Dial Farm estate, Bedford-road, have been sold, proof of the demand for cheap land for houses. In other parts of the town also many plots have been sold, and it is said that building contractors of the district have several months’ contracts in hand.

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