QuoitsOn Saturday, a match was played between the Rushden Wheat Sheaf and the Higham Wharf Clubs, at the Wharf, resulting in a win for the home team points.

SKATING took place in the fields near Higham Wharf on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Although the river had only frozen a little at the edges, the fields were covered with good solid ice. Gay crowds in large numbersnovices and experts were skating most of Sunday. On Monday, owing to several of the factory engines not starting, there was a big number of adult skaters at the Wharf. Newton-road Schools, Rushden, had to close on Monday morning through the children absenting themselves for sport on the ice. Skating has been kept up all the week.

The Rushden Argus June 9^th 1922, transcribed by Susan Manton

At the Wharf

Some of the children of Rushden and Higham Ferrers didn’t mean the heat wave to have everything its own way on Whit Monday, so they stripped out and bathed in the water of the Nene. Near the Wharf at Higham Ferrers, where our picture was taken, was the favourite spot and was visited by hundreds of sunburnt children and adults.