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- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Kempston, Bedfordshire
- Wixams, Bedfordshire
- Turvey, Bedfordshire
- Great Barford, Bedfordshire
- Carlton, Bedfordshire
- Harrold, Bedfordshire
- Elstow, Bedfordshire
- Cardington, Bedfordshire
- Gibraltar, Bedfordshire
- Farndish, Bedfordshire
- Hinwick, Bedfordshire
- Bedford, Greater Manchester
- Bedford Park, Greater London
- Woodside, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- Swineshead, Bedfordshire
- Bromham, Bedfordshire
- Littleworth, Bedfordshire
- Wootton, Bedfordshire
- Clapham, Bedfordshire
- Riseley, Bedfordshire
- Wilden, Bedfordshire
- Shelton, Bedfordshire
- Duloe, Bedfordshire
- Oakley, Bedfordshire
- Radwell, Bedfordshire
- Chapel End, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- Church End, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- East End, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- Water End, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- Wood End, Bedfordshire (near Bedford)
- Clapham Green, Bedfordshire
- Park End, Bedfordshire
- Bridge End, Bedfordshire
- Cross End, Bedfordshire
- Hatch End, Bedfordshire
Photos
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Maps
593 maps found.
Books
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Memories
168 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Up The Overs
Walking free through the wet grass leaving dark trails. Ahead the meadow rises to the mill bank where we stand in silence. Silent and smooth the deep mill race slides towards the wheel. Turning away we follow the bank upstream to ...Read more
A memory of Kempston in 1950 by
Bedford Williams
I remember visiting Bedford Williams' Store as a kid, it was opposite Beatties, it had wooden floors and when you paid, your money was sent up to the account room via a tube that sucked up after the assistant pressed a ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton in 1957 by
Milk Rounds
This was the year I left school. I started working for l.Standing and Sons of Hampers Farm in Station Road. They had one Ford van, five horses with various milkfloats. It was quite different for a fifteen vear old who was not really ...Read more
A memory of Horsham in 1957 by
Eastern Electricity Board Apprentice Training School
I attended the 'boards' training school based at Harold Hill, along with 79 other apprentices during 1960/61... I shared lodgings at Collier Row for the first year of the apprentice training ...Read more
A memory of Harold Hill in 1960 by
Old Memories
I remember lots of my old school friends names. I was born in Brentford, I went to Ealing Road School first. Then to Brentford Secondry Modern School. We moved to Bedford in 1961. I remember many of my old school friend's names.
A memory of Brentford in 1961 by
Jackson's Mill
I grew up in Bourne End and went to the Primary School from 1954 to 1960. My father, Dennis Sharley, was the catering manager at the Mill. I vividly remember collecting newspaper to be weighed and sold for a few shillings. Also ...Read more
A memory of Bourne End in 1955 by
Jaywick Sands From 1954 1960
I first discovered Jaywick when I was just ten years old in 1954. I was taken there by my parents in a 1936 Bedford Van to stay with my uncle Bill, aunt Flo and cousin Bill who was 6 months younger than me. This would ...Read more
A memory of Jaywick in 1954 by
Eynsford Primary School
All of the Abbott family attended this little school and we would journey down each day in the old Bedford bus operated by Heaver coaches that were driven by John Heaver or his father. Our head teacher was Miss Capper and ...Read more
A memory of Eynsford by
Swiming Outdoors And Wardown Park
I have fond memories of Luton, I came with my mates from Markyate village on the 364 London transport bus to Park Sq. we would then board a red corporation bus for the swimming pool off the New Bedford road at ...Read more
A memory of Luton in 1952 by
Harold Hill
I was born in north London, at the age of 5, I moved with my two twin younger brothers & parents to Harold Hill council estate on the first part built; 24 Charlbury Crescent. We had farms all around us as the rest of Harold Hill ...Read more
A memory of Gidea Park in 1956 by
Captions
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Sad to say, the house was largely dismantled by the Duke of Bedford in 1794.
The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard's rubblestone retaining walls.
Inside, Bedford's chief historical treasure is the brass to Sir William Harpur and his wife, Dame Alice.
Henry VIII awarded Russell Woburn Abbey as a reward for service, and his descendants became Dukes of Bedford.
Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates.
This statue of one of Bedforshire's famous sons was made by the noted sculptor, Boehm, in 1873, and presented to the town by the then Duke of Bedford in June 1874.
In the distance is the Town Hall, which was designed by John Wing of Bedford and built in 1844.
This view was taken from near the Bedford Rowing Club clubhouse just before the buildings on the right were demolished for Swan House in 1960.
Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.
Although there are no records of what that might have been, the words 'Villa Bedfordia' - Bedford Town - suggest it was as much an outpouring of civic pride in the town itself.
Another stone plaque commemorates its opening in April 1974 by the then Duke of Bedford.
By an ancient tradi- tion he is supposed to have stopped at a well on the Bedford Road for a drink before continuing on his way, eventually tak- ing ship for France and exile.
The gates were presented to the town by the Duke of Bedford, and the park was opened by his eldest son, the Marquess of Tavistock, in July 1888 during Joshua Hawkins's fourth mayoralty.
Its foundation stone was laid by the Marquess of Tavistock, the eldest son of the Duke of Bedford, in 1811.
John Howard (1726- 1790) lived at nearby Cardington, and was twice Mayor of Bedford and in 1773 Lord High Sheriff of the county.
To its left and out of view are the late 1880s gables of the Bedford Rowing Club.
Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right).
The 1960s were a decade of great change in Bedford's skyline.
On the left, behind the trees, is the south entrance to Bedford School; the gates bear the inscription 'Floreat Schola Bedfordiensis'.
The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.
The church tower was built in the 15th century on the instructions of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and uncle of Henry VII.
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).
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