Rushden Research Group: High Street South shops 1970s-1990s

Shops in High Street South

1970s -1990s

left-right: Barry Miller, Poole's, George Moore's, the Waggon & Horses, and the thatched house and shop
of Florence Simpson.
In the distance is Alan Pond's garage, later a BP garage.

At the corner of Crabb Street,
as Stuart Spares, Radio, TV and Hi-Fi spares and equipment. c1970s

On the High Causeway, at the corner with Crabb Street, and with the shop fronts rebuilt, this was a grocery and off licence. c1980


Galleon Cafe - 93 High Street South Above is an advert from the 1960s when the proprietors were Mr & Mrs F R Richardson. The blind over the window - right - shows they also offered bed & breakfast.
right:- In the 1970s

The same two shops some years earlier: a Second Hand Shop, or Thrift Shop. They bought items for cash and then sold them in the shop.
	Refurbished with new windows and a coat of paint. A shoe repair shop kept by T R Jones, with 'Buonaparte' Hairdresser above. Next door the fish and chip shop. So popular in the 1970s/80s that people even came from Bozeat to fetch their fish and chips. Photos by Vic Childs