Rushden Research Group: Stan Lord

Stan Lord

Motor Engineer and Bus & Taxi Service

George Henry Lord was born at Olney BKM, and came to Rushden about 1900. George was a master baker and confectioner with premises at 23/34 Cromwell Road. He had married Ellen Eliza Kightley, at Northampton, in 1900, so he may have been apprenticed there. They had two sons, (George John) Edward in 1902 and Stanley Bernard in 1909. By 1921 eldest son Edward was aged 19 and he was assisting his father and mother in the bakery business.

Stanley Lord was born on 22nd July 1909, and had trained as a motor mechanic. He married Nellie Hasker (b 5th Jan 1904) in 1935, at Northampton. They lived at 18 Cromwell Road, and Stan had applied to the council for planning permission to erect a sectional garage close by in Portland Road.[plan 2754] Here he had established a repair business, eventually running taxis and coaches.

The workshop with one of the coaches and three taxis outside in the 1950s.
Taken from behind the fence of the house opposite.

Extract from Mr Upton's memories of a bomb: The ground trembled and shook and the house rattled. "Good Lord" my mother says - and the next second we are out the front door and the garden gate. Looking across the road and between the houses of Mr and Mrs Ekins (shop owners) and Mr and Mrs Lord (taxi service garage) we saw that the Town centre had appeared to have erupted like a volcano. A huge cloud of dust and smoke was rolling up and spreading towards us. (The square water tower tank at the Co-op factory in Rectory Road actually vanished in the haze for some seconds.)

Rushden Echo & Argus, 3rd March 1944

Accident — A car belonging to Lord’s Taxi Service, Rushden, was completely wrecked when it came into collision with an American vehicle in Gipsy-lane, Irchester, just before midnight on Sunday. The driver, Mr Albert Frederick Dickenson, of 2b, Milton-street, Higham Ferrers, sustained an injured wrist, a passenger received a cut mouth, and another a cut on the head.

By the 1950s he was running a taxi service and also had two coaches. One coach was a 20-seater and the other a 32 seater.

in the 1950s on a trip to Wembley

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