Council Plans
Power & Engine Houses - 1888-1913

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
200		engine room	Park Road	F Knight		1895
225	^	engine room	High Street	W Sanders		c1894
252		engine room	Dentons Lane	G Denton		1895
826		engine house	Queen Street	Whittington & Tomlin		c1901
856		engine room	John Street	F Corby		c1901
858		engine room	Rectory Road	George Denton		c1901
874		engine house	Manton Road	V Burrows		c1902
940		gas main	Rectory Road to Lightstrung	George Denton		1904
997		engine house	Newton Road	Northants Union Bank	Sep	1905
1005		engine room - rear of factory	Moor Road	C Horrell	Nov	1905
1029		engine house	High Street South	A Abbott	Jan	1907
1037		engine house & coach house	Park Road	F Knight	Mar	1907
1053		engine house	Fitzwilliam Street	Jaques & Clark	Nov	1907
1055		engine house & store room to factory	Station Road	Jaques & Clark	Dec	1907
1098		shed for gas plant	Moor Road	B Ladds	Nov	1908
1135		engine room & shed	Rectory Road	Central Machine Co	Jul	1909
1158		engine house	Rectory Road	Messrs Knight & Brightwell	Dec	1909
1169		engine room & stable	Shirley Road	Nurrish, Pallett & Co	Mar	1910
1186		engine house	Manton Road	W Knight	Jun	1910
1215		new engine house	Rectory Road	E Claridge & Sons	Feb	1911
1253		engine room	Glassbrook Road	James Hyde & Co Ltd	Jan	1912
1290		covering yard & gas plant	Rectory Road	Radburne & Bennett	Nov	1912
1292		engine house	Moor Road	Skeeles & Co	Jan	1913
1305		engine room at Factory	Sartoris Road - occupied by Duncan & Davison	Northamptonshire Union Bank	Apr	1913
1315		engine house - rear of shoe works	Portland Road	Co-op Wholesale Society Ltd	Jul	1913
1328		engine room	Allen Road	Wm Green & Son	Dec	1913
1341		engine room - wood & corrugated iron	Coffee Tavern Lane	Clark & Sanders	Apr	1914
1343		engine house to rear of factory	Spencer Road	Sanders & Sanders	Apr	1914
1366		engine house	Rectory Road	Coxton Shoe Co	Oct	1914
1383		engine house	Rectory Road	Central Machinery Co	Dec	1914
1352		engine house	Shirley Road	Nurrish & Pallett	Jul	1914
1414		shed over gas plant	Harborough Road	George Selwood & Co	Dec	1915
1426		engine house	Beech Road	A Lilley	May	1916
1447		engine house	Allen Road	P Collins & Co	Mar	1917
1448		engine house & leather store	Harborough Road	George Warner	Apr	1917
1460		engine house	Victoria Road	Howes & George	Oct	1917
1488		engine house	Church Street	Mr Cooper	Sep	1918
1479		engine house	Cromwell Road	H W Chapman Ltd	May	1918
1478		engine house	Portland Road	H E Wilmott & Co	May	1918
1517		engine house	Irchester Road	Radburne & Bennett	Jun	1919
1619		engine house	George Street	Harris Bros	Sep	1920
1633		shed for heating apparatus	Station Road	Jaques & Son Ltd	Nov	1920
2147		engine house	East Grove	Lovell Bros	Oct	1928

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)