Council Plans
Corrugated Iron Buildings & "oddities"

Rushden Council Building Notices - Plans Passed by Rushden Parochial Sanitary Committee (later RUDC)

The plans are filed in date order, so they give us an insight into the development of our town. Sometimes the application was made by the builder contracted to a company or individual, but more often the company made the application, having employed the services of a draughtsman. Builders would buy a plot of land and make application to erect a house, or a pair of houses and as he increased his capital, so the number of houses on each application increased and even whole streets were eventually built by one builder. He in turn perhaps employed several smaller building companies or men with experience in a particular field. The applications appear to have been passed just a few days after they were handed in.

no.		plans	street	for	month	year
278	^	"Iron Building"	Station Road	Independent Wesleyan Mission Church	Aug	1895
1078		corrugated iron buildings to rear	Wellingborough Road	J Northern	Jul	1908
1350		corrugated iron coal barn	121 Washbrook Road	F Harris	Jun	1914
1047		corrugated iron coal sheds	Gordon Road	S Whitehouse	Aug	1907
1236		corrugated iron cycle sheds	51 & 53 Robinson Road	W Clark & J Clark	Sep	1911
1062		corrugated iron engine shed	shop in John Street	J Northern	Feb	1908
1238		corrugated iron motor house	Manton Road	W Knight	Sep	1911
1376		corrugated iron motor house	Higham Road	David Nicholson	Nov	1914
1322		corrugated iron motor shed	Shirley Road	Nurrish & Pallett	Sep	1913
1091		corrugated iron shed	Upper Queen Street	Wm Green & Son	Aug	1908
1288		corrugated iron shed	High Street	Mr Snelson	Nov	1912
1321		corrugated iron shed	144 Cromwell Road	E J Craker	Sep	1913
1952		corrugated iron shed	27 Carnegie Street	Jack Joyce	Apr	1926
872		corrugated iron shed	off Higham Road	A Groom & Sons		c1902
1280		corrugated iron shed	Blinco Road	Mr Holton	Oct	1912
1090		corrugated iron shed - rear of factory	Sartoris Road	A Ellard	Sep	1908
1056		corrugated iron shed to gas plant	Duck Street	Charles Sanders Exors	Dec	1907
1259		corrugated iron shed to rear	19 Park Road	Arthur Jaques	Apr	1912
1256		corrugated iron sheds	High Street (near Theatre)	Albert Franklin	Jan	1912
1084		corrugated iron store	Moor Road	Messrs Austin & Co	Aug	1908
1057		corrugated iron workshop	Coffee Tavern Lane	Okins & Thompson	Dec	1907
1270		2 corrugated iron buildings - rear	21 & 23 Crabb Street	E Wrighton	Jun	1912
1191a		permission to move corrugated iron building	Station Road	J Berridge	Jul	1910
893		temporary iron theatre	Newton Road	Mr Hare		1903
		One or two 'odd' applications:
1608		conversion of windmill to cottage	Wymington Road	Mrs Dilley	Jul	1920
1081		dark room	Newton Road	G Selwood	Jul	1908
468		fasting pen & copper house	High Street	G H Skinner		1897
1297		manure pit & new stable to factory	John Street	F Corby Esq	Jan	1913
1138		octagonal summer house	33 Brookfield Road	A Clark	Jul	1909
1754		organ blower house	Park Road	Wesleyan Methodist Church	Jun	1923
443a		quoits shed	Windmill Road	Windmill Club & Institute	Mar	1897
1630		veranda to fish shop	High Street/Duck Street	Mr Bates	Oct	1920

KEY : Some envelopes are empty ~, some are missing ---.

A few are in a very poor state and are marked ^ in this list. (unable to unfold for inspection)

Only a few of the early documents have a date but it appears they were filed in date order.

Numbers on some envelopes have been used twice so I have added a "D" to the duplicates.

Most of the early plans are on tracing paper which has gone brittle with age, but by 1912 many were on linen.

Most envelopes have the details of property & street and some have the name of the owner or builder on the outer.

A few envelopes did not contain what is written on the outer but this is noted in the listing.

click these links to see the full list of plans in date order
1888-1890	1891-1896	1897-1905	1906-1911	1912-1918	1919-1922	1923-1926	1927-1930	1931-1933	1934-1935	1936-1937

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NRO Ref: Accessions 2005/67 & 2005/96 (26 boxes)