Rushden Research Group: Griffith Street plaques + additions

Survey of plaques 2010, with additions

Griffith Street - Name & Date Plaques

1910 Valuations


The top of Griffith Street - Valentines Postcard c1905	A postcard c1910

Griffith Street was laid out in lots for a sale on 10th April 1890, and the Argus Newspaper reported who had purchased the various lots the following day.

Farmhouse at the foot of Griffith Street
belonged to W W Smith in 1895


Clifton House A D 1897 - No 11 built by William Penness - heelmaker - with factory behind.



13 & 15 Griffith Street - built 1894 with carved details on the bays

17 and 19 Griffith Street in 2012

This was the first Cottage Hospital in Rushden, and had opened by Febrary 1917 when an accident victim was taken there.

A further proposal was considered for a Cottage Hospital in 1918.


Roseberry's View A 1901 D - Nos 21, 23 & 25


A D Gladstone House 1891 36 Griffith Street Mr Charles E Bayes (builder) lived here, and Mr and Mrs Percy Collins


Colwyn House No 40 & Bradley House No 38 were built in 1892

Above - north part of a footpath from the church runs behind the Wheatsheaf Inn. The stone walls were old farm barns - one of these was used as the Fire Brigade store in the 1890s.

Right - south continuance of a footpath used by the Rector to the old Rectory in Little Street.

No 32 is above the footpath from the church and has two large bay windows, No 30 adjoining and then the Working Men's Club.

This 1918 advert tells us that Mr Meller, piano tuner and lived at 'Hadyn House' in Grffith Street. Kelly's directory tells us he lived at No 32, but no visible plaque appears on the frontage.


Manfield Villas 1891
George Bayes, chosen as school attendance officer in 1890, lived here in 1903
Nos 22 & 24 - The frontage was first altered in 1960 by Willmott Photographic


No 20 Lilleville 1892 The gateway was removed and a beautiful window added in 2017.


The Rushden Working Men's Club 1891


4 Griffith Street was named The Homestead perhaps when William Childs came in 1919. This plaque has been added during extensive alterations in 2019 and the name changed to Homestead House.
	The doorway with new carved top

No 4 was built in 1890 for Joseph Barwick.

He also built a factory behind for his son.

Doctor Greenfield moved here in about 1905. On his return from WWI he moved to the house next door, and William Childs lived here and started his heel factory here.

No 2 was the home of Thomas Tailby in the 1890s. In 1919 Dr Greenfield moved from No 4 to this house, but then he moved to Hayway and partner Dr McCabe moved here.

1910 Valuations

Street Surveys and Notes