Presented by Margaret Craddock
Arthur Butlin c1960 delivering
greengrocery in North Avenue
On five acres of land in Kettering Road, just prior to the railway bridge (now the A14 roundabout), Messrs Butlin and Turner in the 1940s worked a plot growing, crops, potatoes, other vegetables and fruit for human consumption. In later years Butlin and Turner were well known as rose growers supplying dry-rooted rose bushes.
Presented by Margaret CraddockHarry Ringrose Gent and his wife EdnaMr Harry Gent farmed on The Wold at Poplar Lodge Farm (Top Lodge) in the 1930's. The farm is on the parish boundary with Finedon. The Gents were the last family to live in the farmhouse.Mr Harry Gent...
Joseph Westley co-founder of the shoemanufacturing company Whitney & Westley.His half-acre of land stood next to his house,'Beechwood', Finedon Road. MAF No: 71/34 Owner/Tenant Jos. Westley Type Not given Soil %: Heavy = H, Medium = M, Light = L Not given Natural...