Elstow, The Swan Inn 1921
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70452
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East of the church and the Moot Hall, a jettied timber-framed building of about 1500, standing in its green, is the main north-south village road, the High Street. Most of the village was owned by the Whitbread family, including these rows of 16th-century timber-framed cottages. Those on the left were sold to the Bedford Borough Council for £1 in 1974 and restored. The roughcast was stripped and the timbers exposed, and new housing was built behind in Bunyans Mead. The Swan is still an inn and virtually unchanged now.
An extract from Bedford Photographic Memories.
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