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Beadlow maps

Historic maps of Beadlow and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Beadlow maps

Beadlow map

Historic map of Beadlow

Bedfordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Bedfordshire

Beadlow map

Historic Map of any Beadlow postcode

Beadlow maps
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Beadlow photos

We have no photos of Beadlow, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Clophill, Shefford, Flitton, Lower Stondon, Henlow, Old Warden, Houghton Conquest, Ampthill

Beadlow books

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Bedfordshire Living Memories
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Bedfordshire Photographic Memories
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Bedford Photographic Memories
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Beadlow books
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Memories of Beadlow

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Bedfordshire memories

39 Mill Lane

The gable end of the house on the left is 39 Mill Lane and Back St starts at the junction over the hill and not visible here. My father built the house about 1935 when he was  21 years old. I grew up there until 1955 when it was sold and we moved from Clophill for a short time. We returned... [more]

Shared on 20 December 2007 by Paul Nichols.

My House

This is where I live, it is no longer a village post office. It was built in 1680, and we are returning it to a residential property.

Shared on 11 October 2006 by Stephanie Howson.

ampthill siren

My abiding memory of Ampthill is when I used to go to the Saturday pictures with my cousins and the fire engine would be called out. The only problem was the siren that called them out was the old wartime air-raid siren. What a noise !!! I lived in Maulden but often visited Ampthill. ... [more]

Shared on 26 November 2007 by Christine Ager.

Butchers shop

Browsing Ampthill, for the first time, I came across the above photo.  On the left just above the logo is a shop blind that used to protect the meat in the window display from sunshine (when it appeared).  That blind was the bain of my life in 1952/3/4 when I was a so called "butchers boy".  It never ran correctly on... [more]

Shared on 03 September 2007 by Paul Guyton.

Grandma

The lady with the white coat and shopping basket on the right hand side of the photo is my grandmother - Clara Billington - and lovely to see her in print!

Shared on 21 April 2007 by Julia Lovell.

Shop names.

The shop next door to The Ampthill News was and still is Cheesman's the chemist and the shop next door to that was Underwood's an electrical appliance shop.

Shared on 11 May 2006 by Mr J Emmerton.

My Dad, Dennis

Hello. My dad was born in Arlesey 1926 at 77 High Street, his name is Dennis James Saunderson. His mother was Ada Lillian Saunderson and his father was Arthur Taleyson Jones, they married in Biggleswade registry office December 24th 1924. My grandfather disappered after 1926, and his mother went back to her maiden name. I would be grateful if anyone out... [more]

Shared on 17 September 2009 by Denise Charter.

Arlesey, Bedfordshire

When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in Hornsey Road, Holloway, Islington, London. This became the second phase in my wonderful childhood,... [more]

Shared on 13 August 2009 by Michael Smith.

Extracts From Beadlow & Bedfordshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Beadlow, inspired by Frith photos.

Bedford Photographic Memories

East of Sandy, the small village of Sutton is distinguished by its narrow medieval pack-horse bridge which took pedlars and carriers' pack ponies dry-shod past the ford, which is still in use today. There are cutwaters on the other side of the bridge with refuges; the cutwaters, like the bows of ships in shape, always face upstream. The stream eventually feeds into the Ivel.... [more]

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Bedford Photographic Memories

Here the photographer looks west from the Town Hall, and we can see the extensive encroachment onto the market place. Its Royal charter was confirmed as long ago as 1227. All the central buildings occupy part of the original market place, which was bounded by the buildings at the far right and left. In the distance is the parish church. On... [more]

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Bedford Photographic Memories

In the far distance is the old Harpur School, now the Town Hall. It was supplemented by this fine Tudor-style battlemented building when the Harpur Trust built the Modern School, or the Harpur Schools, in the 1830s; the building was designed by the renowned local architect John Wing, whose son was a pupil, but was completed by John Blore. No longer a school, it was preserved as a frontage to a shopping centre. The... [more]

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