Kettering, Montague Street c.1955
Photo ref: K13041
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Photo ref: K13041
Photo of Kettering, Montague Street c.1955

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At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change. Further down, past a wool shop, is the large brick-built Kettering Conservative Club, built on a site donated by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1876. It opened in 1889, the same year as the Liberal Club in Dalkeith Place.

Memories of Kettering, Montague Street c1955

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In the early 60's I worked at the far end of Montagu St, in the Ironmongers of Tutty Ltd, when their business and premises were bought by the Kettering Industrial Co-operative Society. Eventually it closed and the remaining stock sold to Newmans Ironmongers, to the right of the car in the picture. For many years the showroom on the right was known as Cleavers.