Notes of interest.. and....Q and A page...
If you have any questions.. answers...
or notes of interest for us all..   drop me a line....
e-mail addresses on the leave a message pages..
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I'm sorry to tell you they are closing Hayway School
and also Rushden and Diamonds Football club is no more..
The Oakley Arms pub on Wellingborough Road is being turned into flats
So sad, not Rushden as we remember it.. Brenda Felce..

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Also from Brenda and Bryan Spink, the news that
Arbuckles.. formerly The Railway pub
is now a Weatherspoon pub and will now be called 
"The Railway Inn"

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Gary Fish wrote to tell me that part of Chelveston Base land
 is to be used as a fire school for local fire company's
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richardmhoughton@btinternet.com

I moved to Rushden from Irchester in 1970
and  attended
Rushden Boys' school from 1971 to 1978
I'm trying to arrange a
reunion in
 September 2011 to mark
40 years since the school became comprehensive
and the occasion of myself and 160 others
starting our secondary education there
If you started secondary education in September 1971
or were a teacher at the school between '71 and 78..
please get in touch with me.. thanks, Richard Houghton
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Brenda [ Rawlins ] Felce
writes to say, "everyone will remember 
Wills and Peter Crisp,
they are now both closed down"..

Update!!!  from Brenda,     April 2011
Peter Crisps' building is now being used again,
as a coffee shop and Tesco
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I don't know if you are all aware of the site 

" Hearts and Soles "

being put together by the Rushden Heritage research group..
If you are interested in family tree information as I am..
or just the history of the area..   it is absolutely the best site I've found
anywhere for searching for your roots..
There is a link on this site at "other links"
It is mainly about Rushden, but also has information on some local villages.. Joyce
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If any of you have trouble e-mailing any of the addresses
on the site, you should probably copy and paste
the address into your own e-mail account to try to get in touch with the person..
I don't have any way to insure that the address is right
thanks...  Joyce
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from Dick Harnish.. June 25th 2010
It's nearly 50 years since Sue and I were married 
It  will be June and P T Slocum's anniversary next month too..
Charles and Dawn York recently celebrated their 50th, congratulations to you all..
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from Dawn York.. June 28th 2010
we are back online.. three weeks ago my old computer went to the 
' happy hunting ground ' in the sky for old computers..
We got a new one and love it.. and got the e-mail fixed today..
so we are looking forward to hearing from you all..
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Attention !!!
Pete Windram
are you still online..
If so would you please update your e-mail address..
Jon Anton [ Perkins ]
would like to get in touch with you..
an old friend from the Sapphire rock group days..
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I have just added a dozen or so photographs of USAF flyers..
Jim Berg and Ray "Doc" Kelly to my website..
oldstox, in the ' seniors in the sixties ' section..
It includes a group of USAF guys in full dress uniform and..
several of Jim's Chelveston buddies at the tracks and on the base..
Jim was kind enough to send me the images this week..
                                                                                   Dave Kipling...
[ There's a link to Oldstox on the other links page.. ]
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A reunion was  held in Rushden at the house in the Hall Park, 
to commemorate what would have been Miss Boy's 100th birthday..
Photo's on the North End School page.....
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ron@ronpinnock.wanadoo.co.uk
 
Janet [ Bayes ] Pinnock,  
a former North End student..
who wrote a very good book, about her years at North End
and the Headmistress Miss Boy's..
[ sadly no longer available ].
 
 
has decided to embark on Book 2..
The subject of this one being us "Old girls" who attended the school..
between 1949 and 1958...

If you have any photo's or information you think would be of interest to her, 
please e-mail; her at the above address...
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NOTICE !!
If any of you have changed your e-mail addresses,
since leaving a message..
would you please send me the new one, 
so new friends will be able to contact you...
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lees.family@talktalk.net
 
I am the minister of the Full Gospel Church and Christian Centre...
now based at the old Southend School..
I noticed the picture of the premises on the site and was interested...
 
 
We are hoping to start a heritage project on the social history of people connected with our present building in it's previous uses and forms and also the history of the Full Gospel Church since 1935..
This will be an intergenerational project, where I want to link the youth of today..
with folks who have a history and story to tell us of the past days in Rushden..
Mark, Marie, Jonathon, Jacob, Sophie, and Joy Lees...
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