Rushden Research Group: unidentified pictures

Unidentified Pictures

Pictures given to the History Society - but the donors have no idea who they are.
Please can you help us to identify the people, family, or site where they were taken?

Mission Church - Is it the church orchestra and choir or congregation?

Possibly taken in the 1930s or 40s and the Minister in the picture is very probably
Rev E. E. Brommage who was there between 5th April 1925 and 1944.

From A J George's collection - with the question "Who's factory outing was this?"

We are told it is H W Chapman's at Wellingborough - did anyone go from Rushden?

Unknown group - soldier's wedding

Men and dogs

Unknown Family with their motor car

a wedding .... but whose?

At last we know! in 2025 Terry Mitchell tells us this was his sister's wedding in 1952 to Harold Lewis.

A group of wedding guests outside the Drill Hall c1950s

Left to right: Millicent Wright néé Desborough, Olive Smith néé Desborough, Ivy Lewis néé Desborough, Megan Eve néé Desborough,
Florence Desborough néé Skellham, Unknown, Beulah Compton néé Desborough. Megan used to be the landlady at the White Horse in Wymington. My family through the years has been part of both pubs in Wymington. Named by Gary (by email) but he didn't know whose wedding or the date.

Unknown event - back row left is Stanley Brooks, and
Florence is 5th from the left in 2nd row
Please let us know if you can identify the event or anyone else.

Have you added identification to all the
photographs in your own collection?

A shoe factory but please can you identify which one? Perhaps a rear view.....
Do you know the occasion? Or do you recognise someone? Please let us know if you can help.

We are told this may be Denton's shoefactory.

Can you help with this picture, please? All we have are the names pencilled on the back at a much later date!

Boys around 1916/7?

l-r: Paul Hooton, Luffy Bert Coates, Sam West (Darlow & West, Gordon St),
Bert Bailey, -- Cox (RUDC), Ray Endersby (father manager of Co-op Factory),
Ablet Martin.

A Samuel West is aged 3, son of Edwin & Louisa in Crabb Street in 1901.
Is this the same boy? There is also an Albert Martin aged 2, born Kettering,
and Walter Endersby aged 2.

We also have individual pics of the two boys in front and the photos are by Woodhead and Linnett who only traded together
for a few years until 1918.

... clipped from a larger picture

Copies of these pictures have been given to the History Society - but the donors have no idea who they are.
Please can you help us to identify the people, family or whereabouts of any of them?

Unidentified Photographs