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Buildings.
The buildings featured from left to right - (I do not know the history of the white house), then there are the pillars which are the entrance to the churchyard and mortuary chapel. The church, built in 1865, was used until 1980 for funerals only. It was then declared redundant and turned into a Heritage Centre. In the churchyard which is still used are the graves of several Second World War Canadian, Polish and English soldiers. Woburn Primary School is just around the curve in this photo. The entrance door is set in a wall and can be missed unless you know it is the school. Woburn School has a very long history having been ...read more here
A memory of Woburn contributed by Mrs Sylvia Hudson
Working memories.
I was the main weekday driver of the launch photographed during the student holiday periods of 1955-1958. When I drove it, the name was 'Silver Stream'. It was the largest of a set of three electric launches which carried paying passengers for trips of about 40 minutes duration from the steps on the downstream, north side of the town bridge. Typically this launch would carry about 40 passengers maximum. Silver Stream was a magnificent launch to drive, giving a silent drive, almost no water disturbance up to the 6 knots maximum for the river, and had a tubular rudder form which surrounded the propeller. This permitted a very tight turning such that most of us could turn round in places where ...read more here
A memory of Bedford contributed by Mr PC Hedgecock
Family connections.
The gentleman in the foreground of the Quadrant in the dark suit is my father Albert (Bert) Brandon a local business man. He opened a fruit and flower shop at 12 Albion Street which was previously his mother's shop and sold haberdashery and household linens. Then, before his retirement, he started The Princes School of Motoring. He is waiting for my mother to come out of the bakers and she is possibly the lady carrying her purchase coming out of the shop. Strangely he is standing where he had a garden, a very large area where we played as children, before the Quadrant was built.
A memory of Dunstable contributed by Mrs BP Tompkins
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.
A memory of Ampthill contributed by Mr J Emmerton
Extracts From Beadlow & Bedfordshire books
Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime. Public swimming was banned in 1950 in an increasingly safety- conscious age that valued its people more after so much wartime carnage. At least boating is still legal! (see left). It is fitting to end on one of the most profound reasons for Luton to celebrate recently: the local football club, Luton Town FC, came top of League One and were promoted to the Championship League. (The club still honours one of its former (Robert Cook) (Robert Cook) Martyn Coote conducts a live radio show at Bute Street Hat Museum. The arrival of BBC Three Counties Radio in Luton meant that a daily paper was no longer feasible; covering Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, it makes Luton a reference point for a wide area.
An extract from from"Luton - A History & Celebration".
Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime. Public swimming was banned in 1950 in an increasingly safety- conscious age that valued its people more after so much wartime carnage. At least boating is still legal! (see left). It is fitting to end on one of the most profound reasons for Luton to celebrate recently: the local football club, Luton Town FC, came top of League One and were promoted to the Championship League. (The club still honours one of its former (Robert Cook) (Robert Cook) Martyn Coote conducts a live radio show at Bute Street Hat Museum. The arrival of BBC Three Counties Radio in Luton meant that a daily paper was no longer feasible; covering Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, it makes Luton a reference point for a wide area.
An extract from from"Luton - A History & Celebration".
Looking towards Chapel Street from Cheapside, we see a variety of building styles. There are just enough people out to catch one’s interest, and make us wonder who they were and what they were doing all those years ago.
An extract from from"Luton - A History & Celebration".
Geoff Cox said: ‘I think the negative image goes back to Lorraine Chase and the Luton Airport advertisement (for Campari); it led to the naff town idea. To a lot of people it’s just a place people see when they’re going up and down the M1. Football is very important, but not necessarily the supporting of the local team. A lot of people in Luton haven’t got roots; they have moved here for cheaper housing. We have a lot of commuters, and we want to get them interested in the town. We do four pages of Luton news each week. Even those who don’t support Luton town will be interested that there are plans for a new stadium. It may be used for other purposes like rock concerts, but there will be those who worry about the effect near their homes.’ The Milton Keynes and South Midland Spatial Strategy gave the green light for massive new development in the Luton and Milton Keynes area, but with no firm commitment to infrastructure. Geoff Cox observed: ‘The rush hour is an absolute (Robert Cook) Looking across at Chapel Street today, from under the canopy of the large shopping centre. Needless to say, much has changed; however, the old Boots building remains, nowadays an estate agent’s, helping to handle the thriving property market.
An extract from from"Luton - A History & Celebration".
LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world. A bitter election campaign in 2005 saw the Tory leader Michael Howard criticise south-east expansion plans when there is no firm commitment to infrastructure. Luton, like all busy towns and cities, has its problems, and every hospital could use more cash in the right areas. High house prices do not make it easy to recruit nurses. South-east expansion will certainly put pressure on the M1, and on local roads like the A505 and the rat run through Houghton Regis. Public transport is still the poor relation, although coach links to Luton Airport are good and help reduce motor traffic. Plans to establish a tramway on the old Luton to Dunstable line have so far failed to bear fruit. There can be no doubt that without serious funding toward better transport the quality of life, not just in Luton but the whole south- east, will diminish. Over the wider region, there is outrage and protest against plans for a new flight path at lower altitudes over Aylesbury Vale. This is the price of cut-price air travel. It is like mobile phones: everybody wants the benefit, but not the inconvenience of the environmental price being paid in their own communities. (Robert Cook) Modern jets are parked up on the Luton tarmac; it is hard to imagine that this was once Eaton Farm.
An extract from from"Luton - A History & Celebration".