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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.

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

The low building is the Bedford estate office. Tavistock's Goose fair is held in Bedford Square on the second Wednesday in October.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School. This had its origins in the free school founded by Sir William Harpur in 1566.

It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park. On the left are typical late Victorian houses; the one on the far left, No 67, is now the Bedford School Study Centre.

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 house facing the green was the Bedford's pied-a-terre from 1550-1910. The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire.

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.

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. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

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. It is certainly the river that gives the town its character now.

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

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. The reason is not recorded.

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

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.