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January 1938
Eight employees of RUDC left their work in a trench in Northampton Road and visited the Council offices, threatening to strike unless they received higher pay as forty shillings was not enough to live on. They were granted an increase of 1d per hour.
February 1938
The first school to be provided on Rushden’s western housing estate was opened in Tennyson Road. The Infants School contained air-raid provision.
Dr.G.B.Lord stated that during the previous year the names of 46 TB patients had been removed from the lists since they were regarded as “quite cured”.
March 1938
Male guests were issued with clay ‘church warden’ pipes and tobacco rations at the annual dinner of the Rushden and Higham District Gas Company held at the Masonic Hall.
April 1938
Three ladies occupied the public seats at the RUDC meeting and saw the Council debut of Mrs Muxlow, the first lady member.
Miss Grace Pashler claimed that an old wall in Duck Street was standing before the parish church was built. Dr.Fisher went so far as to say it might have connections with the Romans.
May 1938
It was reported that about 130 operatives would be displaced when two well-known boot and shoe firms, Messrs G. & P.Hyde of Glassbrook Road and F.Skeeles & Co Ltd of Moor Road, closed down before Whitsun.
June 1938
Employees of the CWS boot factory journeyed by train to Southsea for their annual outing. A party of about 300 left at 06:30 and arrived back at 03:00.
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July 1938
The sum of £10 was set aside by the Higham Town Council for the purchase of crockery. Specimens of the new china stood on the table at the council meeting. Hitherto it had been necessary to borrow crockery for the entertainment of guests at the Town Hall.
August 1938
A new £7,000 extension to the Rushden Boot and Shoe School made it the finest of its kind in the country. The original school, a converted factory, had kept the town in the van of progress in technical education for the boot industry.
September 1938
Mr Horace Wright of the Summit Shoe Works, Harborough Road, announced he had decided to give up manufacturing and that production at the factory would cease the following month. Increasing competition was the reason for the decision.
October 1938
United Counties’ new bus garage in Newton Road came into use.
Rushden’s one and only public air-raid shelter trench was dug at Spencer Park.
Farm House, High Street, was sold to a firm of London builders as a site of four shops. It was formerly owned by the Denton family and became known as Farm House School, where a Miss Lizzie Smith acted as a teacher towards the end of the 19th century. It later became the property of Mr Robert Marriott.
November 1938
Cottages demolished in Higham Ferrers included the old Toll Gate House at the southern extreme of High Street. Toll-keepers had been on duty there until about seventy years before.
December 1938
Severe criticism of the training of local Air Raid Wardens was voiced by Capt. Marshall Bailey, Rushden’s Chief ARP Officer, in a talk to Highfield Baptist Men’s Fireside.
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