Desborough, Rushton Road c.1955
Photo ref: D200019
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Rushton Road, at the east end of Station Road, is a mix of Victorian terrace housing and factories. Cheaney's, on the right, is a 1930s rebuild of a shoe manufacturer established in 1886 and still in business today. Desborough's character as a workaday town is illustrated rather well here.

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A Selection of Memories from Desborough

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In our school holidays I used to go fishing and swimming down the brook below Pioneer Ave, that's where I lived, number 19 Pioneer. We moved to Windsor Ave in 1978. I used to knock about with Simon Loake, Barry Goodman, Dean Underwood, John and James Twelvetree. We also used to roam the allotments and the surrounding fields, armed with catapaults and our pockets full of stones. Towards the end of the 6 week hols the ...see more