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Rushden Feast

09 October 1869 - Northampton Mercury

Rushden Feast, though late this year, has been favoured with unusually fine weather, and consequently more than the average number of visitors ......

20 Sept. 1873 - N'pton Mercury

Rushden - For the Feast a whole week of festivities will be provided; commencing on Monday with a fancy fair. Also there will be a parochial horticultural exhibition, &c., while the Temperance and Good Templar Societies have promised their quota of tea and...

The National Band played the music at
a public tea in Feast week 1879 held in the school by the Britons Cricket Club.

The poster was printed by
Hewitt of Rushden.

<Note the spelling mistake!

Feast Monday Cricket Team

Visit Jon Anton's site at www.antons-show.co.uk/heritage

In 1940 at Higham Market Day Mr M Gore of Rushden took his model fairground for display. The advert declares it was "made from junk".

Feast Remembered	Rhyme by RWN
Feast 1874 -1884	'Ruzdin' speak 1925
Feast Date - 1887	'Ruzdin' speak 1923
Feast Shows
Feast 1898	Feast 1929
Feast & Mr Thurston	"It allus rains...."
Feast 1907	1958
Feast 1908
Feast 1909	Feast 1963
Feast 1910	Feast 1967
Feast 1912	Feast 1969
Feast 1913	Feast 1983
Feast 1914	Feast 1984
Feast 1915	Feast 1986
Feast 1917	Feast 2001
Feast 1918	Feast 2006
Feast 1919	Feast 2021
Feast 1920	Newsclips

The rifle range - year unknown

Traditionally Rushden Feast comes to town on the Saturday following September 19th annually. Charles Thurston first came to a site, owned by Mr Albert Franklin, opposite the Queen Victoria Hotel in 1904 but later moved into Spencer Park. All the traditional rides were there; the big wheel, waltzer, horses and swings to sit on would race around. Then there were stalls offering shooting or hook a duck to win a prize. Candyfloss and toffee apples to munch as you walked around. Roll a penny and hoop-la. All very exciting to young children and adults alike. Often people would go there every night of the week that the fair stayed here.

Outside the park in the road in the 1950s "The Crockery King" would set up a stall and display baskets of crockery which he'd pick up and tip forward to make you think it was going to spill out, then he'd toss it a little to make the crockery rattle! His shouting would declare the price, "but not a pound, never mind 15 bob, not even 10 bob, who'll give me 7/6?" and the takers would go forward as his assistant started to pack the crockery for transport home.

If you have any pictures we'd love to copy them please.
Meanwhile here are some pictures taken in 2007.



	Just a few pictures taken in 2007