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Rushden Tour Mill End (Click on image for larger picture) |
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| Mill End in Rushden is the through road at the bottom of the the village. Presumably the mill existed when conditions where even wetter than they have been recently and the River Bean was larger than the stream it is at present. Here you can find Rushden Nursery selling a wide collection of plants, the Moon and Stars pub and next to the pub the house where Harry Boot, inventor of the magnetron lived. All who rely on microwaved food can be grateful to him. Perhaps even more important was his work on the radar needed to identify enemy submarines. It was as a result of this that more food was able to enter Britian to enable the country to survive. Further along the road are Anvils, built as a shop but never used as one, and Old Hammers, the former Blacksmith's. He built a window into his inglenook so that he could watch out for visitors. The kitchen of the house was used as a Dame's School. | ||||
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| The Moon and Stars Pub is the first building that you come to on the left hand side of the road as you walk to Mill End. In days gone by half of it used to be a slaughterhouse. One landlord in the previous century asked villagers to bring a log of wood with them for the fire when they came for a drink. | ||||
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Old Hammers |
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Old Hammers was, as its name implies,
originally the Blacksmith's house. It also served as a Dame's School in
former times. The present kitchen was the school and the Dame's husband,
the blacksmith would sit in the inglenook watching through a peephole in
its side for customers.
Old Hammers was sold to Jean Chalk's father on condition that he kept the blacksmith's shop, the black barn next to the house, as a blacksmith's for two years to service the horses in the village, as that was still a time when most people used horses. Another interesting bit of history is that when Wellington visited Julian's in the nineteenth century, he sent his horses here to be shod. |
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