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January 1970
The Rushden branch of the Kettering company Seddons and Aldridge closed down. Nearly all 22 employees found new jobs with Chapmans.
New street names for Rushden Park Estate included Melloway Road, Dingle Road, Purbeck Road and Wildacre Road.
February 1970
Plans were on the way to preserve the ancient character and beauty of Higham Ferrers by law.
Rushden looked like getting a market although the suggested site was turned down by Rushden UDC.
March 1970
Mattel’s toy factory in Glassbrook Road was annoying nearby residents with noise at night.
Arthur Sanders secured two large building contracts in Bletchley for a factory and office blocks belonging to The British Ink Company.
April 1970
The biggest fire in the area for years raged through the factory of George Bull, sole cutter, in Moor Road.
Pupils from Rushden Secondary School for Boys went to Austria for a taste of the school’s first venture into skiing. 38 boys and 4 adults made up the party.
May 1970
Margaret Johnson was chosen to be Rushden Carnival Queen.
Post Office detector vans toured Rushden to catch TV licence dodgers preparing to watch the World Cup. The maximum fine was £500.
June 1970
Plans were announced for a new junior school to be built on the Home Farm (Whitefriars) Estate. £74,000 had been set aside for 8 classrooms and 320 children.
To commemorate John White’s 50th anniversary the company’s craftsmen made an altar frontal for Higham Church.
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July 1970
Mr John Mullard, General Secretary of the National Cactus and Succulent Society, spoke at Rushden.
John White’s gave 224 MPs a pair of shoes in the election campaign. 134 to Conservatives and 88 to Labour.
August 1970
An unusual geography lesson was planned for pupils from Rushden Boys’ School when they returned to school. Due to council shortages, Headmaster Mr.H.W.Catlin had volunteered the pupils to conduct a survey of Rushden’s footpaths.
September 1970
An early hutted settlement dating back to the Iron Age was discovered in a field off Boundary Avenue, Rushden.
A relief road was being planned for Rushden. If it was built it would include a big roundabout at the Lightstrung and the junction with Washbrook Road.
October 1970
Two local people, Maye Dicks from Rushden and Colin Rockingham from Higham Ferrers, were among 13 people from Northamptonshire named as magistrates.
November 1970
Two brooches described as very rare examples were found at the site of Rushden’s Iron Age settlement.
Rushden UDC Chairman, Mr.H.W.Catlin, officially opened the headquarters of Rushden Permanent Allotment and Smallholding Society in Park Road.
December 1970
Many people in Rushden breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced that the site of London’s third airport would be at Cublington and not at Thurleigh as feared.
Wellingborough Zoo Park went under the auctioneer’s hammer at the knock down price of £1,500.
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