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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. He

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.

The Bere Stream, seen looking eastwards from Southbrook Bridge, towards Bedford and Jesty's watercress beds with a glimpse of Woodbury Hill (top left).

Earith is where the two great drainage cuts of Fenland, the Old and New Bedford Rivers, take off from the Great Ouse.