Pattern & Knife Making In Rushden January 1969 to April 2010

January 1^st. 1969 Billy Garner (who was well past retirement age) was the only Pattern Maker in the town at this time, trading from a small workshop behind the row of terraced houses in Newton Road where the car park is now.

At this time several of the larger factories had their own "Pattern Making Departments", and John White's even had their own Knife Making plant at one stage.

Also serving the town at that time with Patterns were two Kettering firms Mobbs - Miller, and G. Bennett along with Art Pattern and Knife from Leicester.

Late January 1969 Speedy Pattern Service came to the town from Northampton, changing their name later to R J Coleman.

1970 saw the arrival of Johnson Haynes Patterns & Press knives also from Northampton.

1971 A new business was formed by two of Johnson Haynes employees and a third partner - B H S Patterns and Press knives.

In 1996 B H S partners split up one keeping on the pattern and knife business and one trading as B H S Cutting Formes Ltd. supplying mainly the print trade (the third partner having left some years previous) The two companies carried on trading from the same premises for about two years.

1998 B H S Patterns and Press knives amalgamated with and moved into the premises occupied by Johnson Haynes and gradually lost their identity.

February 2004 Johnson Haynes went into liquidation and thus both companies ceased to exist.

B H S Cutting Formes Ltd. and R J Coleman Pattern and Knives are still trading in 2010.