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.
25. 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 DOUBLE RETIREMENT OLDHAM AND SONS KETTERING Photo: Northants Telegraph
26. 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 LOAKES BROTHERS CENTENARY Photo: Northants Telegraph
27. 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 TINA'S HAIR SALON CHRISTMAS FANCY DRESS Photo: Northants Telegraph
28. 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 ALUMASC GALA DAY Photo: Northants Telegraph
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