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January 1968
Mrs Winifred Allebone was awarded an OBE for 30 years’ service to the National Savings East Midlands Committee.
February 1968
John White Footwear Ltd announced they would be exhibiting 60 styles in the National Shoe Fair to be held in New York in March.
March 1968
Rushden St.Crispin’s Townswomen’s Guild was entertained with a number of Polish dances and songs by two youngsters from the Ukraine.
April 1968
Tributes to the work of Mr F.C.Astle, Headmaster of South End Junior School for the previous 18 years, were made at a special ceremony to mark his retirement.
May 1968
An interesting exhibit at the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy was a watercolour of the new headquarters of the Robert Marriott Group in Rushden.
June 1968
Councillor Cyril Falkner, of Kings Road, Rushden, was awarded the OBE.
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July 1968
Richard Bishop, a 23 year old pattern cutter, won a first prize and two seconds in the manufacturers’ awards for shoe design at Rushden Boot & Shoe College.
August 1968
It was announced that the previous month had probably been the wettest July of the century. Three inches of rain fell in one hour.
September 1968
Members of the Rushden Court Estate Players staged “Under the Counter” at the Park Road Methodist Church Hall.
Rushden and District Dog Training Club, taking part in is first competition, beat a team from St.Neots Dog Training Club.
October 1968
It was the 50th anniversary of the death of local hero, Captain Bernard Vann VC.
November 1968
Miss M.E.Boys, headmistress of Rushden Secondary School for Girls, announced that she would retire at the end of the year.
‘Rag & Bone’ merchants, C.A.“Bill” Bailey, of Washbrook Road, announced they would no longer be purchasing goods of any kind.
December 1968
£36,000 worth of orders left the plastic rotary moulding machine factory of John Orme Ltd.
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