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Blackberry Picking

Rushden Echo, Friday 19th October 1917, transcribed by Kay Collins

Soldiers’ Jam—The scholars of the Newton-road and North-end day schools at Rushden so far have been out on four occasions, and the total weight of the blackberries gathered for soldiers’ jam and dispatched to the collecting centre is just over 1,200lbs. The last picking yielded 2cwts., compared with 3½cwts. for the first picking.

Rushden Echo & Argus, 6th December 1918, transcribed by Kay Collins
Blackberries gathered by school children in this district for the Government were as follow:-

lbs.

Irchester

3705

Rushden Newton-road

2091

Chelveston

1500¾

Rushden Church of England

1354¼

Rushden North-end

1044

Higham Ferrers

1019

Rushden Alfred-street

838¼

Newton Bromshold

685½

Hargrave

630

Irthlingboro’ Church of England

443½

Irthlingboro’ Council

325

The total is 15tons 1cwt 3qrs 9lbs. – an increase of six tons upon last year.

There are references to blackberry picking in some of the school log books.

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