Rushden Research Group: CWS staff

Co-operative Wholesale Society

Staff, news and notes

in date order

staff 1930s	staff 1952	long service
Mr Ephraim Nichols	Mr Wm Durham

Rushden Echo, 27th November 1908

C.W.S. — The Co-operative Wholesale Society have taken the factory in Victoria-road, recently vacated by Messrs. Knight and Brightwell, and will use it as a stock-room until the extensions at the Portland-road factory are completed.

Extract from a Military Tribunal in May 1918

Wm. Durham, 39, married, secretary and cashier to the C.W.S. was given six months exemption. As a Special Constable the V.T.C. condition was not imposed.

Maintenance Carpenter - Mr Tansey - 1900-1920

CWS Boot & Shoe factory saw bench and early planer in the Maintenance Carpenter’s shop;
Mr Tansy who held the position for 20 years. He lived at 23 Moor Road, and played with
the Mission Band and was a local preacher. In 1924 he celebrated his golden wedding
and had then been retired for 4 years.

4 Young Ladies

Note:
sent via email by Graham Giles, 2022

Audrey Kathleen Saint 1903–1993
Born 9 Aug 1903 Rushden
Died Jul 1993 Chichester, Sussex

Married

Walter Horace Cave

1900–1960
Born 10 Mar 1900
Rushden, Northamptonshire
Died Mar 1960 Wellingborough, NTH

We are now told the girls
worked at CWS drapery.

Misses Audrey Saint (born 1903), Ena Button (born 1906), Eva Lincoln and Edith Allen.

Rushden Echo, 17th December 1920

Accident - Mr. W. Sharpe, of Higham-road, whilst at work on the C.W.S. new buildings, Rectory-road, was moving a big stone slab when it slipped from his grasp and fell on to his leg. The stone was quickly removed and Mr. J. Burt rendered first aid. Mr. Sharpe was taken to Dr. Owen's surgery and an examination proved that the injuries were confined to cuts and bruises.

The new offices being built in 1920

W Wood, carpenter, standing left of corner post above the gateway, long before 'Health & Safety' regulations!

Rushden Echo & Argus, 1^st October 1937, transcribed by Kay Collins

Freak
Fourteen flowers have just bloomed on a single pyrethrum stem grown by Mr. F. Clifton, manager of the C.W.S. boot factory—not a bad effort for a spring flowering plant.

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