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John Cave & Sons - Introduction
pencil tradenames
John Cave & Sons Ltd, Rushden pencil printed with "Commonwealth", "Kyngzone" and "Worlds Best" tradenames

Business
Court Case 1872
Standard Rotary Machine Co
Fire in 1877
Employees' Supper 1910
Inquest 1877
Directory 1914
Expansion 1898
Biographical Directory 1916
Factory Place
Mr Alfred Newell 1915
Poem
John & his sons 1887/89
Obituary - Mr A E Marlow
Paul Cave - S'th Africa 1900
Obituary - Mr Amos Cave
Contract 1900
Obituary - Mr Arthur Cave
Fire in 1901
Staff notes
More on the 1901 Fire
1935
Plans in 1901
 Workers 1940s
Temporary Works 1901
Exports in 1948
Obituary 1904
1950s Retirement & Outing
Centenary Programme
The Cottage
Problems in 1906
Centenary News report
Choir 1908
Exports in 1910
Snippets

Rushden Echo, 1st January 1915, transcribed by Kay Collins

 Mr Wilfred E Capon, secretary of Messrs John Cave and Sons Ltd., Rushden, has passed the Intermediate examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries.
Leisure
Fishing 1907
Tennis
Benefit Society
Sports Club

export to Kansas
1910 outside the College Street factory on a wet day - railway wagons with boxes for export to Ellet Kendall Shoe Co, Kansas City.
 Photo by S Powell
Note: T. C. Ellet, president of the Ellet-Kendall Shoe Company, was born in California in 1855, founded the company in Mississippi in 1867, before moving to Kansas City around the 1890s.

Extract from Memories of the 1890s by R E Bayes
Grandfather Skinner, a choir and band conductor, and the owner of a Sunday frock coat and silk hat, lived in Handel House, Queen Street, and was timekeeper in the Cave factory.

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