That the pub on Market Street in Kettering, Watercress Harry's is named after a real person - a massive thank you to Kev of the Kettering Town Preservation Group for posting about this on www.facebook.com/groups/ketteringtownpreservationsociety/1519767024951651/?comment_id=1519787271616293¬if_t=like





Watercress Harry, the Prizefighter who came from Leicester and made Kettering his home. Sold watercress in Market Hill (Market Street) hence the name of the public house there, Watercress Harry's. He harvested his watercress from the River Ise to be sold, and the money he often spent in the pub. He's real name was Harry Wood and after a drunken occasion he ended up in court in February 1894