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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

Houghton Conquest map

Historic map of Houghton Conquest

Bedfordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Bedfordshire

Houghton Conquest map

Historic Map of any Houghton Conquest postcode

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Houghton Conquest books

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Bedfordshire Living Memories
Paperback
$28

Bedford Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26

Luton Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26

Houghton Conquest books
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Memories of Houghton Conquest

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Bedfordshire memories

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 First Visit to Marston

The first time I went to Marston my boyfriend was taking me to visit his parents. I was 15 and he was 17. We caught a train from Bedford St John's and got off at Milbrook Halt. His family lived in a Brickyard home in "Jubilee Cottages". It wasn't as modern as my parents' council house as it had no hot... [more]

Shared on 16 June 2008 by Alice Pope.

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.

Swimming in the river at Kempston

Great times were had at the river at the bend as we children called it, we would make mud slides down the banks.  What fun we had.  There was always a good crowd there on a Sunday afternoon, but now its all quiet, no swimmers, the bend has long since gone.

Shared on 23 July 2007 by Jackie Fleming.

Extracts From Houghton Conquest & Bedfordshire books

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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]

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Bedford Photographic Memories

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]

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Bedford Photographic Memories

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]

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