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The pole at the back - second prize. Another pole carries a placard but it is unreadable.
Passing Desborough's shop.
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This was captioned as being 1919 but no other info.
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Wedding Cake - outside Spencer Park - year unknown
We have some names: Pam Maddams, ?.
Pat Garley, Sylvia Payne, Diane Cross
Madge Pinnock, ?,
Jenny King, ?, - Brightwell
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This comes with a caption "Sanders Float - Willow Pattern" possibly 1936 in W'boro Road
Margaret Short is 4th from the left
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Long Haydens carnival float advertising Hodges for Camping Equipment |
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Peace Day 1919
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Co-op Parade in the 1920s
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Co-op Parade in the 1920s
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The caption on this picture is "Our parade in Rushden July 19th 1927"
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Unknown group but entry No. 71
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Mid 1920s
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Thought to be the Gasworks employees' float - entry number 33
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The Hand Sewn Section - which company?
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Girls
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T Swindall & Sons Carnival Floats - we don't know the years
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Two pictures for one carnival entry by Caswells advertising
Silver Cross, Dunkley, and Pedigree prams. |
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A post-war carnival entry - please can you tell us the year?
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1959 or 1960
Chapman's Factory Float
"Mods and Rockers"
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June 1960 "Beat the Clock"
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Rag Tag Wretslers - but who and when?
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"Puppet on a string" - Calor Gas in 1967
left to right: Keith Brearley, Barbara Watts, ?, ?, Stuart Wilby,
?, ?, Pauline Longland, ?, Jim Meager
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The float was designed and put together, including costumes, by the marketing department at HO in Slough. The trailer was taken out of commercial use for the whole of the Carnival season. All the local
Carnivals were entered Rushden, Higham, Irthlingborough,
Raunds, Wellingborough, Kettering, and Northampton
which used to be held on a Thursday evening.
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Calor Gas in 1968 - "Old Time Musical" left to right: ?, Keith Brealey, Vivian Fox, ?, ?, Stuart Wilby,
Maureen? Morris, ?, ?, ?, ?, Cathy Smith, ?, ?, ?, Isobel Denton
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Possibly Calor Gas entries?
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1969?
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1965?
In the blue dress Vivienne Fox, green dress, Ann Boswell
In the pink dress sitting Jane Wright, mandarin kneeling Jim Meager
and pink dress standing Margaret Peck.
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Wollaston Jazz Band in Rushden High Street - 1968 Carnival
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A Stage Coach passing the same place
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A 1970s Carnival - The Rushden Windmill Band coming from
Station Road into Wellingborough Road
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