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The Market Place is dominated by the Moot Hall, rebuilt by the Bedford Estate in 1852 in Jacobethan style with the re-used clock cupola from the 18th-century predecessor bursting from the roof in a bizarre

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction

The old Infirmary, designed by John Wing and opened in 1803, fronted Ampthill Road; it was later expanded to be the Bedford General Hospital (South Site).

Those on the left were sold to the Bedford Borough Council for £1 in 1974 and restored.

The slipway indicates that the river was the main transportation method, barges bringing in grain from the northern and eastern wheat-growing areas and removing the flour to merchants' storage in Bedford

At the end of the smart De Parys Avenue, Bedford Park was laid out to designs by the noted park designers William Barron and Sons from Derby in 1883 during Hawkins's first mayoralty.

Scaffolding on the right indicates that the Bedford van production facility was undergoing an upgrade, and building works immediately beyond the bridge (which also contained part of the van production

All the needs of a developing small town are in evidence - the Bedford lorry loaded with builders materials, Charles Love & Son's ironmongery and radio/TV engineer's (right), Lisles petrol station (near

The shops behind the `sit up and beg` Ford and the Sunbeam Talbot 90 are occupied by Barnardos and Taylor`s the estate agents, while the whole of Fosters, outfitters, and the shop next door

has been given a new lease of life as a Masonic lodge, although part of the original Barracks, including the Keep, is to remain as a link to the Regimental War Memorial sited on the opposite side of Bedford

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime.

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row.

Bedford truck designs became the basis for a new breed of army vehicles; the QL made history as the company's first 4 x 4.

At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans.

He sold the property the next day to the Earl of Bedford and Peter Graye of Leicester.