Rowland Arthur Wheeler
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R A Wheeler - butcher - 12 High Street
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This business was established about 1880 by C E Knight, and R A Wheeler took
over about 1908 and then about 1922 it was Edward Warren's.
Extract from memories of Doris Watts
Mrs. Wheeler was a real lady. She sat in the cash cubical and dressed herself in a dark dress with white lace edgings on her neck and round her sleeves. Mr. Wheeler was a nice man. At the back of his shop he ran a soup kitchen. I went down with our tin can, which we always had; it was a hardwearing tin can. I would go to the side of his shop to the back where there was a huge copper full of meat and gravy. On top of which floated lumps of fat meat - I must say that even at my age of 99 years I still cannot eat hot fat meat.
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| Runaway horse and cart - accident 1914 |
Rushden Echo, Friday 26th October 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins
An Accident happened on Saturday to a lad named Payne, when taking a truck of meat for Mr R A Wheeler, butcher. Payne was pulling the truck, and another boy was pushing it, when it got out of control in going down-hill, with the result that it knocked Payne down and ran over his leg.
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| Rushden Echo, 19th March 1915, transcribed by Gill Hollis
Accident—Mr. Freddie Wheeler, son of Mr. R. A. Wheeler, butcher, of Rushden, was motor-cycling to Luton on Sunday night when he met with a mishap. He was going along the Bedford-road when a dog rushed out, and Mr. Wheeler was pitched off the machine to the ground, sustaining cuts and bruises on the face. Surgical aid was summoned, and the patient, who was removed to his home, is now making good progress.
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| Extract from a Military Tribunal in May 1918
Frank Albert Jones, 31, married, Grade 1, foreman butcher and shopman for Mr. R. A. Wheeler, who said that without this man it would be impossible to keep on the business. – six months.
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Rushden Echo, 19th September 1919, transcribed by Kay Collins
Speed Trials—Mr. F. Wheeler, son of Mr. R. A. Wheeler, of Rushden, won second prize (two silver medals) in motor cycle open speed trials, on Saturday at Luton, promoted by the Luton and South Beds Automobile Club. Mr. Wheeler rode an 8-10h.p. J.A.P. and attained a speed of just under 70 miles an hour. This speed was 3 seconds better than all the other riders, including the cracks of the country, except the first prize winner, who, riding the same make and power engine, lowered Mr. Wheeler’s time by three-fourths of a second. Mr. Wheeler’s machine made the fastest time of the day at the recent Northamptonshire Motor Cycling Club’s “Hill Climb,” doing a mile a minute.
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