Leighton Buzzard
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- 18 photos on Leighton Buzzard appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Leighton Buzzard
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Leighton Buzzard memories
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Australians On The Cut -1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in Braunston near Rugby, and that six months later - still living on the boat - we'd be calling Leighton Buzzard home for nearly two years.
The boat was called SADLERS WELLS, and in the opinion of most people, she looked more like a railway carriage than a traditional narrow boat, obviously the result of some DIY conversion of years gone by. She became ours for two hundred pounds after answering an ad in Exchange and Mart. Work opportunities in ...read more here
Contributed by Ross Barnard
Bedfordshire memories
Australians On The Cut -1975
Having left Australia on an open-ended working holiday to England in January, 1974 with my girlfriend, it was hard to imagine that within six weeks of arriving in London we'd be living on a leaky old narrow boat in Braunston near Rugby, and that six months later - still living on the boat - we'd be calling Leighton Buzzard home for nearly two years.
The boat was called SADLERS WELLS, and in the opinion of most people, she looked more like a railway carriage than a traditional narrow boat, obviously the result of some DIY conversion of years gone by. She became ours for two hundred pounds after answering an ad in Exchange and Mart. Work opportunities in ...read more here
A memory of Leighton Buzzard contributed by Ross Barnard
Shop names and trades.
The buildings from left to right are the Post Office with Drakelow Press printing and bookbinding firm in buildings above and behind it. Established prior to 1827 by a Stephen Dodd, in 1951 it became known as Drakelow Press. The there is the Black Horse pub, a wool/haberdashery shop, a grocery shop, Gibbs and Dandy Ironmongers which was a treasure trove of nails, screws, string, buckets, mops etc. Then on the corner a cafe.
A memory of Woburn contributed by Mrs Sylvia Hudson
Shop names and trades.
The buildings from left to right are an antique shop, then a sweet shop that was full of the most delightful assortment of sweets all in glass jars and weighed out on brass scales into white paper bags. Then Dudeney and Johnston the grocers - they had man who went around the villages on his bicycle one day a week taking grocery orders which were then delivered by van to your door. The door with a canopy and small windows either side is a Bank, then Mr Jones's shoe shop. I think the two buildings leading to the corner were private houses. The double fronted building on the far right was a cafe.
A memory of Woburn contributed by Mrs Sylvia Hudson
Extracts From Leighton Buzzard & Bedfordshire books
A large number of the buildings in this photograph are now Grade II listed, but the dishevelled look of the market stalls did little to foster civic pride in antiquity. At the time of writing, the High Street has been partially pedestrianised and by-passed as a main thoroughfare for traffic.
An extract from from"Bedfordshire Photographic Memories".
A haphazard collection of stalls and covers which today’s local government would not tolerate. Woolworth’s displays its original American house style above the shop front, and the chemist two doors away has yet to feel the effects of the corporate marketing soon to alter the town’s purchasing habits. The little boy walking with his mother and sisters in the left foreground is wearing the young man’s fashion of the day - a lumber jacket.
An extract from from"Bedfordshire Photographic Memories".
A large number of the
buildings in the picture
are now Grade II listed,
but it is not likely that
the unkempt state of
the High Street in 1955
did much to foster
civic pride. In the 21st
century the area has,
for some years, been
partially pedestrianised
and a bypass built to
take the ever-increasing
volume of traffic.
An extract from from"Bedfordshire Living Memories".
Loaded narrow boats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting. This spot is only a mile or so from where the Great Train Robbery took place in 1963.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
Two loaded narrowboats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting. This spot is only a mile or so from where the Great Train Robbery took place in 1963.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".