Rushden Research Group: John Clark, Farmer

John Clark

Farmer

Heatherbreea House c1910
It can just be seen in the trees at the top of the picture below.
(just under the ↆ marked)

Part of John Clark's farm land used for brickmaking. ↆ

aerial view of the site of the new factory

Aerial View of part of the land. The water pit is where the sand for brickmaking had been extracted. The pit was filled in in the 1960s by Messrs. Braybrook hauliers. c1958

John Clark owned much land, bordering the railway track. He lived at Heatherbreea House on the western side of the town, and was a farmer, brickmaker, and shoemaker. The farm suffered two fires in 1915 and 1916.

An aerial view of the house and land.

Memories of John Lewis: I was in Rushden for a year and my dad was killed down the bottom of Wellingborough Road when the floor of the grainery collapsed at Clark’s Farm, opposite St. Peter’s Avenue.

The new link road from the bypass was named John Clark Way as a tribute to him.