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Cockernhoe, Bedfordshire
Cockernhoe maps
Historic maps of Cockernhoe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Cockernhoe maps
Cockernhoe photos
We have no photos of Cockernhoe, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Stopsley, Breachwood Green, Lilley, Luton, Whitwell, St Pauls Walden, Charlton, KimptonCockernhoe books
Displaying 3 of 5 books about Cockernhoe and the local area. View all Cockernhoe books
Bedfordshire Living Memories
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$28
Bedfordshire Photographic Memories
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$28
Bedford Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26
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Memories of Cockernhoe
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I used to sit and wait for the Number 11 bus, if I remember correctly on the bench facing the post office, and I am ashamed to say I never really took in the names on the war memorial or realized what they had done for us all. I now live in Holland and the next time I am in Stopsley... [more]
Shared on 28 November 2008
I used to live in Stopsley with my family. We lived in Swiftsgreen Road. I have just been back but it has not changed a great deal, the village is larger and we did not have time to have a walk round but it was nice to see where we had lived. I was named Johnstone in those days and we... [more]
Shared on 17 April 2008
I was brought to Luton, 219 Ashcroft Rd when I was four years old. the cottage we lived in was part of Farmer Holdstocks farm, it was origanally the Cowmans cottage. It was here that my Dad , Fred Chater and Mum Violet, raised their family, there was myself, Sandra and my sister Linda and brothers Ian and... [more]
Shared on 08 March 2010
My father, Edmund Harris Biggs, visited Luton in 1918 when he was in England during World War I. He visited what was supposed to be the Biggs family home. It was a large house with a circular driveway and possibly a covered portico. He met an elderly lady, possibly unmarried, knoiwn as Aunt Dyer. I would love... [more]
Shared on 10 August 2009
I was late for the cutting of the first turf when Luton Technical College was being moved from Park Square to what became Barnfield College. It was a cold morning and I had overslept!
The University was to expand onto the Park Square site of the 'Tech' and while the initial works were going on we had no playground and... [more]
Shared on 23 May 2009
Having spent over two years at the old college on Park Square as a student, I started work in 1953 with Seaward Brothers Builders as an apprentice. After two years on the firm they won the contract to build the new Tech. Overall I was there about two years and helped lay the drains, build the walls, point the damp course... [more]
Shared on 13 February 2009
I attended this school from the 8th January 1951 until the end of March 1953. Every morning all classes would attend assembly in this building and would then disperse to their classrooms which were often at other points around the town. My classroom was in the Weslyan Chapel in Chapel Street where I remember I was when the death of George... [more]
Shared on 10 February 2009
When I was about 13 or 14 I would visit this building which was next to the Grand Theatre on Waller Street. By this date the building was used as a Youth Club. I think there was a nominal charge to enter and soft drinks and snacks were available. On one occasion the main hall was blacked out for a film... [more]
Shared on 08 February 2009
Extracts From Cockernhoe & Bedfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Cockernhoe, inspired by Frith photos.
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]
This is an extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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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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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]
This is an extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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