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Ellis & Everard Ltd
Postcard 1905
Postcard c1905
A plaque on the cottage far right is "Ellis & Everard's Coal & Coke"

Established 1848
Ellis & Everard Ltd
Coal Factors & Merchants

HOUSE and STEAM COAL supplied direct from all the
principal Collieries at the very lowest possible prices.

Dealers in all BUILDING MATERIALS.
TIMBER SAWN to any size and planed up ready for use.
TURNING done on the premises.

Rushden Office – 28 High Street
Saw Mills – Wellingborough

J A Moore, District Manager
This advert tells us that the firm was established in 1848
Another copy from 1905 Postcard

The shop front in 1905

One of Ellis & Everard's horses
One of Ellis & Everard's horses and a cart

Two later pictures showing the cottages beyond the Wheatsheaf Yard.
17 High Street South cottages
View of the cottages next to the Wheatsheaf Inn
15 was sometime Ellis & Everard's
No 17's front door is behind the second lamp post

A 1938 letterhead
A 1938 letterhead shows they had depots at Wellingborough,
Finedon, Higham Ferrers, Irchester and Rushden

High Street north
c1930 - the station master's house stands before the cottages on the left.

Detail of the Sign above the roof Seen from the railway Station
Building left - Ellis & Everard and sign viewed from the railway Station c1950s
Plans were passed for the building as stores in 1896.

a corrugated sheeted store
The other side of the building above is a store clad with corrugated sheets - the station fence in the background.

The coal arrived at the railway station yard and was then weighed into sacks for delivery,
at first by horse and cart. Ellis & Everard had a large building close to the station.

1944 advert
1944 advert from the Parish Magazine of St Peter's C of E Church

Mrs Abbott finds lump of coal

The house at the end of High Street was originally built for the railway as the Stationmaster's residence. When Ellis & Everard took it over, c1960, they used it as their offices. After the row of cottages beyond the house were bought, the company left the facade standing, but at the rear they were gutted to make a large covered areas for storage in the yard. House and cottages were demolished when Travis Perkins took over the business, and completely refurbished the site.

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