Love Rushden

15/06/2026

Congratulations Barbara! 👍👏🙏

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𝗖𝗹𝗹𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴'𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀

We are pleased to announce that Cllr Barbara Jenney has been awarded a British Empire Medal in the King’s Birthday Honours List. Barbara has been given this award for services to the community in East Northamptonshire (Rushden)

Barbara has served as a local councillor for 22 years, being elected to Rushden Town Council in 2003, East Northants Council in 2007, and North Northants Council in 2021.

Barbara was Mayor of Rushden in 2008/2009 and 2017/2018 and was also Chairman of North Northamptonshire Council in 2023/24.

11/06/2026

Thank you to Rushden Museum Friends for posting this picture of Abington’s Tailors (which we have colourised).

Abington’s had connections with Rushden as far back as 1876, and occupied 21 High Street for over 60 years until they closed in the 1990s.

See more photos and history here: https://bit.ly/4v4DIzr (Rushden Hearts & Soles)

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10/06/2026

Here’s another beautiful Rushden garden photo, this one sent to us by Mo Webb. It’s Mo’s memorial rose for her daughter Lesley, and is a standard rose that goes by the name ‘Special Wishes’.

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09/06/2026

Our ‘Tequila Sunrise’ rose in the Love Rushden garden is looking at its best right now...

If you would like to share a favourite view from your own Rushden garden, please message it to us, or email to [email protected] (sorry, you can’t upload them directly to the page)

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05/06/2026

Freda Shortland was chosen from 73 contenders to be Rushden’s first Carnival Queen on 5th June 1934.

Read the full story by Freda’s daughter Jacky Lawrence on the Hearts & Soles website here: https://bit.ly/43Oz24H

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01/06/2026

A lovely photo courtesy of Honorata Chorąży-Przybysz, showing the sun setting over the sensory garden in Hall Park last night. Honorata is an artist but, as she says, “Nature is the best painter”

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31/05/2026

Some random pictures, old and new...

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