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Bedford School celebrated 450 years of independent education in 2002.

Rebuilt in the 15th century, the church received the Bedford Chapel in 1556.

Now Bedford High School for Girls, this fine building originally housed both the High School and the girls' Modern School.

The low building is the Bedford estate office.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School.

It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park.

Rowing sports have always played a large part in the leisure activities of Bedford's citizens.

Thorney was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, and played a focal part in the construction of the Bedford Levels in the 17th century.

The Town Hall, on the west side of St Paul's Square, started life as a school, a school originally founded by Sir William Harpur (a key name in Bedford's history) in 1566.

The house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910.

It has a plaque informing us that it was presented by the Indiana Limestone Co Inc to the people of Great Britain from 'The Stone City of the World', Bedford's namesake: Bedford, Indiana, in the USA.

Leaving town by the line of the present existing Old Bedford Road, it crossed the river by a ford on the town side of Little Moor.

Beyond the route suggested in this chapter, which finishes at Bedford Park, the 1950s and 1960s expansion of Bedford to the east was well planned with parks, shopping parades and schools - many of the

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park.

Bunyan was born in Elstow; after service on the Parliamentary side in the Civil War he moved to Bedford, where his nonconformity led to spells in Bedford Gaol.

Bedford grew up at a ford over the River Ouse before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in the mid to late 5th century AD.

Holland had worked for the Duke of Bedford at his seat at Woburn Abbey some ten miles south-west of Bedford, and the duke had acquired the old inn in 1787.

The date of this photograph is the year in which the Duke of Bedford opened Woburn Abbey to visitors in the commercial sense.

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 fittings.

It was in Victorian times on the Old Bedford River near Earith that a most bizarre experiment took place.

was arrested and charged with her murder, having been seen with her You may recognise the family name Riland and recall that Plantsbrook School, A Technology College, used to be known as Riland Bedford

Any photographic survey of Bedford must include a picture of the embankment and the Swan Hotel.

The owner, Charles Wells Brewery of Bedford, is the only independent brewery left in the county.

This aptly-named bridge is actually a sluice, controlling the water level in the Old Bedford River.