This week we are looking back at Kettering-area businesses from the 1970s and 1980s in our latest retro special.
From shoe factories, clothes manufacturers, engineering works to health care and high street shops, workplaces provided social ties for employees and the community.
So let’s take a walk down memory lane at the people from our area who made the headlines in the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph.

5. Archive pictures from the 1970s and 1980s of staff from businesses:Pictures of businesses from the 1970s and 1980s from the Northants Telegraph archive
1979 REED NEWSAGENTS ROCKINGHAM RD KETTERING Photo: Northants Telegraph

6. Archive pictures from the 1970s and 1980s of staff from businesses:Pictures of businesses from the 1970s and 1980s from the Northants Telegraph archive
1980 LOAKE BROTHERS CENTENARY PARTY Photo: Northants Telegraph

7. Archive pictures from the 1970s and 1980s of staff from businesses:Pictures of businesses from the 1970s and 1980s from the Northants Telegraph archive
1980 MRS INGRAM RETIRES BSC KETTERING Photo: Northants Telegraph

8. Archive pictures from the 1970s and 1980s of staff from businesses:Pictures of businesses from the 1970s and 1980s from the Northants Telegraph archive
1981 ALLEN AND CASWELL KETTERING Photo: Northants Telegraph