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[Extract from the memories of Eileen Iliffe (nee Smith]
My father's sister Betty (nee Smith) had five children, and then parted from her husband, (who came from Yeoville), so she changed her front room at 75 Newton Road and it became Newton Road Post Office. This was before the war, in the 1920s. Her surname was Langdon. She used to sell stationery and groceries. If she was only a halfpenny short she would sit up until 2am to get it right. It was only a small house and she paid for the three sons to go to Kettering High School to be educated. When she retired she had a house built at Park Avenue and her daughter and son-in-law took over the business - his name was George Hammond.
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75 Newton Road, at the corner with Cromwell Road
Later renumbered as 93.
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| Elizabeth Smith was born at Rushden in 1890, daughter of Thomas Smith, shoemaker, born Audley Staffordshire, and Mary H (nee Brooks), who were married at Newton Bromswold on 25th November 1887. They family lived at 13 Roberts Street, but Thomas died on December the 4th 1900 aged just 33.
On 1st Sept 1911 Elizabeth married Bernard James Langdon at Yeoville. They lived at 75 Newton Road and had five children: Bernard Thomas William 1912, Reginald George 1913, Mary Joan 1916, Margaret Hazel 1922, and Philip Desmond in 1925, all baptised at St Mary's Church. James enlisted in December 1915, aged 26.
They opened a sub-post office about 1922, and Bernard was named as the sub-postmaster. When they separated, Elizabeth took over the business.
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About 2010 the premises was returned to a domestic property.
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