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Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire
Houghton Conquest photos
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Houghton Conquest maps
Historic maps of Houghton Conquest and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Houghton Conquest maps
Historic map of Houghton Conquest
Illustrated Victorian map of Bedfordshire
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Houghton Conquest 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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£13
2 Houghton Conquest photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Houghton Conquest
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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
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
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
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
Extracts From Houghton Conquest & Bedfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Houghton Conquest, inspired by Frith photos.
Bedfordshire Photographic Memories
Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill. Lady Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister, built the house between 1615 and 1621. The Bruce family bought it in 1624 and lived there for nearly 70 years. It came into the possession of the Dukes of Bedford in 1738, and in 1794 the then Duke removed the roof and most of the... [more]
This is an extract from Bedfordshire Photographic Memories.
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This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building. It has classical features: in this view we see the Tuscan colonnaded loggia, which originally had two further storeys of loggias. This design was extremely advanced for England, and led to its being attributed to Inigo Jones, the King's architect, on no basis at all. Now the roofless romantic ruin... [more]
This is an extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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Sandy was originally a modest Roman settlement on the Roman road between St Albans and Godmanchester; in the 18th century the town became important for its coaching inns servicing the Great North Road. However, it is a somewhat bitty town, and the market square is a distinct disappointment. Here, a little further north up High Street, we look west along Bedford Road. The late 19th-century town hall is on the left. By 1925 it... [more]
This is an extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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