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'The Printeries' off Coffee Tavern Lane
formerly the Argus print works - 2012
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Mr. Hunt was apprenticed into the printing trade at Reading. He came to Rushden about 1903, working at first for C. G. Jowitt at the “ Argus” office, and then for Mr. A. T. P. Phillipson whose business he acquired in 1916, afterwards moving from Coffee Tavern Lane to premises in George Street.
He was married in 1903 to Miss Elizabeth Pearcy SYKES and in due course his two sons joined him in the business. His son Reginald was married in 1935, to Miss Campion.
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Time recording clock
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The building where they moved to had earlier been been part of Denton's shoe factory. We don't have a photo of that building when Hunt's were there, but only a high brick wall was visible from George Street.
We have this photograph of the time clock that recorded the employees' daily attendance. The clock moved with the company to their new premises in Station Road.
In 1974 the building was demolished and the company moved to the old British United Shoe Machinery Company's building, in Midland Road.
The company continued to grow as the family members gradually took over the running of the business.
In 2015 the business has been sold, but continues with the family still taking care of the day to day business. [sadly the company who took over the business soon sold it for building]
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