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Rushden
History & Development

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History Demolition & Development see also Surveys

Pre-history to Domesday

Population (census & stats)
Rushden Manors Demolition - mainpage
Rushden & Higham Ferrers Developments - mainpage
Higham Ferrers Hundred Council Plans 1888-1938
A Thousand Years of Rushden Statistics 1878 - 1897
Archaeology High Street Development
Datestones and interesting notes 'Hearts & Soles'
Sundials & Mass Dials Growth of Non-conformity with Shoe Trade 1881-1901
Village Green Parochial Committee
Windmills Lighting the Town 1880

Footpaths 1880
Proposed Baths and Warehouse 1895
Roads - Government Enquiry 1895
Grade II Listed Buildings Water Supply
Rushden's Only Thatched Property Road Widening 1909
Brief history of Higham Park
See also the main section on Higham Park
High Street Improvements 1902-1910
Roundhouse Road changes (mainpage)
The Court Estate Housing Reports
History by J Bridges 1791 Parks
Wymington Road Windmill 1793-1915 John Street area 1920
History of Rushden - John Cole - 1838 Prospect Avenue 1924
Hamlet of Knuston - 1838 Snippets
Mop and Pail Riot 1846 Refuse Tip 1927
W Green - Memories of the 1860s Park Avenue Estate 1931/32
2 Photos in 1861 by H Sartoris Public Utilities - see Commerce Section
Whellan's Parish History 1874 Culverting the Brook 1969
Census Act 1881

Town Lit Up - 1949

Retrospect of 1889 Roads - 1949
Rushden and Its Industry 1891 & 1900 Links with Old Rushden 1950
High Street c1903 (church end) Car Parks
The Fire 1901 The Church Clock 1952
Digging a Round Barrow 1906 Building Boom 1955
1911 Rushden Town Guide New Street Lights 1956
Cemetery Report 1919 Growth & Development - 1958 study
History by Dr C R Fisher 1920s Overspill?
Notes by J E Smith House Building 1960s
Ditchford Bridge 1924 Redevelopments
The Town in 1926 Save a Factory
History Lecture - Councillor J Allen 1927 Tree Planting 1992
Church & War Memorial Pictures The High Street 2008/9
Rushden Enlarged & Beautifed 1930 Regeneration 2011
The Budget 1931 New Lighting 2013
Roman finds in 1953 & 1970
"Spotlight on Rushden" 1955
Life in Rushden
Growth & Development - 1958 study Memories 1850-1937 Henry Hobbs
Amalgamation? 1964 Memories of Concerts 1858 - TC Clarke
Town Guide 1965 Memories of the 1860s - Walter Green
Bakers 1940-1970 - WEA study Memories 1870-1907 - Jonathan Seckington
The Town in 1979

Christmas 1877 - 1882

Industrial Archaeology - WEA 1982

Notes by J E Smith

A6 Bypass 1993
Rushden - book published 1985 Some Old Customs
Timecapsules Memories 1875-1885 - Walter Green
Industrial Architecture - Essay 1999 Memories of 1879 - John Mead
The Vyne - Architectural Study 1999 Letters - ref Queen Victoria's Jubilee 1887
Some Postcards Rushden in 1887 (1937 50yrs ago)
The Views from St Mary's Tower 2008

94 High Street South

(interactive e-book feature) Feast Remembered
Architectural Survey - High St 2012 Pleasant Memories from 1895
Benchmarks Ladies Column in the "Argus" 1897
Listed Buildings High Street complaint - 1889

Memories of the Town in the 1890s
Rushden Manors

Memories 1890s - R E Bayes

Rushden Manors High Street snippets
Deeds - Introduction & Transcripts Fire Relief Fund 1901
Courts Passive Resistance - Education Act 1902

Christmas Games - 1903

High Street 1905
Rushden Hall Agricultural Show 1907
Introduction Postcards of High Street
Early Days Rushden's Sorrow - King Edward VII
Sale of Rushden Hall 1836 Mrs Clayson - King's Christmas Tree 1909
Hall Park Gatehouse First day at school - 1910
Contents Sale 1929 Rushden & the New King 1910
Property Sale 1929 Women's Suffrage - Meeting 1910
Hall & Grounds Open 1930 Out of Work in 1910
Saving the Hall 1967 Memories of George Skinner 1911
The Hall in 1971 Memories of Mrs Smart 1914
Hall - News & Notes Memories of Doris Watts 1918

News Snippets August 1919

Rushden from the Air House damaged by drought c1920
Aerial picture c1920s Unemployed Marchers visit Rushden 1922
Queen Victoria Hotel area in 1979 Blackberrying 1926
The Town in 1984 Memories of 1920s - Stella Reynolds
Aerial Views 1950, 1988 & 1991 Memories 1850 - 1927
DVD - A History of Rushden 2009 Fern Road 1925-35 by Peter Waring
Little Street 1924-1936 - D Muscutt
Rushden Dialect Rushden Becomes Important 1936
Nostalgic Rhymes - R G Thompson Memories of Rushden 1924-1939
“Ole Tom” Has the Electric Light Memories of the Baker Brothers 1928
Ruzdin Feast Rushden in the 1920s & 1930s
R W Norman Memories of 1920s-1930s Mary Fennell
Memories of the 1930s - Freda Parker
Memories of 1930s - Dorothy Rollings


Memories of 1930s - Peggy Whitington
Parish Vestry Meetings Memories of the "BU" - Richard Hall
New Vestry Hall - Setting up

New Beauty Spot 1930

Building the Vestry Hall 1875

Memories - Kim Harris

Vestry Meeting 1887 Memories - Joyce Hazzeldine (nee Hartwell)
Charities

Roy Blenco - Memories of the 1930s and 40s

Response & Letters - Jubilee 1887

Cromwell Road in World War II

Mr Robins' Chicken Farm 1939

Memories - A H Chettle
Memories - Margaret Clowes 1940s
Council & Local Government Memories - Doreen Denny
Electoral Roll 1834 Memories - Mollie Smith 1940s
New Vestry Hall 1875 Memories - Wm S Ladds 1942
Rating Property 1878 Memories - Ken Allen - The Lockies
Highway Board Report 1882 Memories - Sheila Doherty - Duck St
Urban Status 1881 & 1890 Memories - Christine Reeves
Urban District Council Dinah van der Werf - poem
Mud in Quorn Road - 1948
Savings 1948
A Fifties Childhood

The Louvre - 1950's

Shilling Shortage 1950
Christmas 1951
Memories - Barb Burns (nee Parnell)
Rushden & Higham Mourn the King 1952
The Church Clock 1952
Margaret Goodwin - Washbrook Rd 1950s
Canteen for USAF men 1953

Memories - Nigel Chettle - 1950s-60s
Mrs Minney - 1954
Town for Hard Work - 1955
1959 - optimism
Officials & Establishments 1928 Memories - Spencer Park
Refuse Collectors Strike 1890 Teenagers' Opinions!
Politics (index) 1960s problems
Roly Brawn - work in the 1960s
Litter
Polling District L - Rushden Court 1910 High Street Improvements 1969

Memories 1970s - Peta Jellis

Official Inquiries 1912 TV - "Hunter's Walk"
Housing Report 1913

Visit the Feast - "Ruzdin" style

National Register 1915 High Street Remembered 1986
Electoral Rolls - mainpage Engineers - H Packwood 1988
Absent Voters - mainpage

Grace Ashby

Rates Assessment 1928 Hall Park Gate House
Dustmen's strike 1948 Memories of High Street - Joyce Moore
A Xmas Card 1962 Skeleton Found 1864
Rates Snippets
Ratepayers' Assocation 1908 & 1967
Referendum E U 2016
Rubbish Tip
Memories of a clerk Nuisances
Lighting News reports
Council - District - East Northants Rights of Way
Chairman Greets The Queen in 1985 Foothpath Closed
County Council Sales
Works done at Rushden Sales - mainpage
District Councils 2021
Employment & Unemployment Street Names & Surveys
Reports (in date order)
Surveys & Notes
Street Names in Census Records
Street Names - Origins
General Statistics Street Names - 1899
Civil Registration

Street Names since 1901

1892 & 1898 Street Re-numbering 1947-69
District Births & Deaths High Street plans 1969
Employment The High Street 2008/9
Census Lightstrung area 2018

Memorials Surveys of Buildings & Lost Buildings
Amenities Society - Notecards Some Lost Buildings

Blue Plaques and Walk

House Transformed 1959
Commemoration Plaques Architectural Survey - 23 York Rd
Memorial Inscriptions - Cemetery
Industrial Architecture History - Essay 1999
Vann V.C. - Forgotten Hero? The Vyne - Architectural Study 1999
War Memorial Demolition - mainpage
Rolls of Honour A Window

Weather Town
Weather Town Criers
Diary Notes - Mr Eb. Knight 1869-70 Decorated Cycles
Diary Notes - Mr Crick 1872-1881
Notes by J E Smith 1927-28 Unidentified Buildings
1931 Earthquake Help wanted, please

Walks
Town Walks with map


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