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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 ...Read more
A memory of Woburn by
Memories Of Bedford Lane.
This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
Cargo Fleet
When I look back, they were probably the best years of my life though I didn't think so at the time, my mam had parted from my dad, I was 12, had never heard of Cargo Fleet, had lost my dad and was taken to this place Id never ...Read more
A memory of Cargo Fleet in 1968 by
My Grandad Humphreys Thomas John1875 1965
Grandad Humphreys, he was a carpenter making and restoring the Lockgates on the Montgomery Canal. Born in Welshpool 1875-1965. I remember the little trains running across Church Street as a boy of 8 ...Read more
A memory of Welshpool in 1954 by
2up And 2down!
My father was born in Ford Street Hockley Brook Birmingham in 1936. He was the youngest of 6, 2 sisters and 3 brothers. Ford Street consisted of a row of houses on one side and factories on the other side. The houses were 2 up ...Read more
A memory of Birmingham in 1940 by
The Granada Cinema
I worked at the Granada cinema from the age of 15 and it was the best time I had, the building was unbelievable with many secret or forgotten doorways... Does anyone have any photos before it was demolished? I can't understand ...Read more
A memory of Bedford in 1987 by
Happy Days In Latimer
It was only two years or so, from 1959-61, aged 6-8, but it still seems as if the happiest period of my childhood in Latimer was one long, endless, glorious summer. My dad was in the army, in the King's Own Scottish ...Read more
A memory of Latimer in 1959 by
The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Brambletye school, well set between the beautiful Ashdown Forest and thriving town of East Grinstead on the Sussex/Surrey border was a paradise on Earth for any schoolboy with an aesthetically romantic (!) ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1959 by
My Grandparent's Home
I received information from my cousin Leslie about this photo. Now that I have found it I am delighted. My grandparents were Thomas Benjamin Fairminer (1881-1954) who married Louisa Florence Smith (1880 - 1944). They ...Read more
A memory of Frimley Green by
The Red Lion And The Square
My parents ran the Red Lion between 1953-83. I was brought up here and went to Blendworth School, Mrs Byrne was the headmistress. The pub was situated on a tight bend on the old A3 and was regularly hit by vehicles ...Read more
A memory of Horndean in 1960 by
Captions
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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.
The river Great Ouse in Bedford is as popular today with boaters, walkers and fishermen as it was eighty years ago when this picture was taken.
Bedford Street is another road that disappeared from the map following the blitz.
This picture shows Upper Yard and the Bedford Tower of 1760, and is little changed today.
The date on this photograph is the year in which the Duke of Bedford opened Woburn Abbey to visitors in the truly commercial sense.
Bedford's War Memorial was erected in Embankment Gardens around 1920.
There are plenty of thatched cottages in Yardley Hastings, a pretty village on the A428 between Northampton and Bedford.
Helmsley is the attractive castle-crowned 'capital' of the North York Moors National Park, and this view shows passengers alighting from a Bedford coach parked beside the Eleanor-style cross in the spacious
Consecrated in 1868, the parish church was funded entirely by William, the 8th Duke of Bedford, at a cost of £35,000.
Castle Close, but not the delightful garden, was incorporated into a major redevelopment of the original location of Bedford Castle.
The Bedford Hotel later became Bateman's Opticians, with a giant pair of spectacles that many local people still remember.
A summer picture showing an image that characterises Bedford in the middle of the 20th century as bridge, river and church link under a summer sky.
BP petrol is also available, perhaps for the approaching Bedford Dormobile.
Tavistock's wealth was generated in early Victorian times by the nearby Devon Great Consols mine, which was dug on land owned by the 7th Duke of Bedford.
At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans.
In the 17th century, the ingenious Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden forged a navigation from the sea cross-country to Bedford.
At least this ensures that Bedford's citizens are never far from reminders of 'fire and brimstone' sermons and exhortations to live exemplary lives.
Here, a little further north up High Street, we look west along Bedford Road.
The river Great Ouse in Bedford is as popular today with boaters, walkers and fishermen as it was eighty years ago when this picture was taken.
The Great Ouse is as much a part of Kempston life as it is that of Bedford.
Until 1910 the village was part of the estate of the Duke of Bedford, who was responsible for many of the buildings on the High Street.
The village is a mix of 17th-century timber-framed cottages, and 1820s and 1840s to 1850s Bedford Estate cottages.
The school sign, of the original British pattern, probably indicates the proximity of the school originally established by Francis, the 5th Earl of Bedford.
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