Maps

593 maps found.

1946, Shortstown Ref. NPO830683
1946, West End Ref. NPO864051
1946, Willington Ref. NPO870498
1898, Bolnhurst Ref. RNE645603
1898, Little Odell Ref. RNE757788
1898, Pertenhall Ref. RNE805323
1898, Church End Ref. RNE668368
1898, North End Ref. RNE793246
1946, Wood End Ref. NPO872463
1946, Workhouse End Ref. NPO874532
1946, Wyboston Ref. NPO875054
1896, Duck End Ref. RNE694530
1896, Cardington Ref. RNE661231
1898, Channel's End Ref. RNE666314
1896, Herring's Green Ref. RNE731860
1896, Eastcotts Ref. RNE698117
1898, Keysoe Row Ref. RNE746762
1898, Knotting Ref. RNE750331
1898, Green End Ref. RNE720806
1896, Green End Ref. RNE720808

Books

2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.

Memories

168 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.

Greywell House, Callow Hill

My family lived in Greywell House from 1955 when I was 9 until about 1965/66. I attended Runnemede House School in Rusham Park Avenue in Egham for a few years then moved on to St Brigidine's Convent in Windsor. I ...Read more

A memory of Virginia Water in 1955 by Wendy Graham

Bedford Summer Holidays

My mother Dorothy was from Bedford and when she met my dad they lived there until the 60's. I used to go back every year with them to visit the relatives in the 70's and 80's...many many fond memories of the place... walks along ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by babkba

Old School Girl 1971 75

I was a pupil at Clarendon from 1971-75, when I had to leave after the fire. I wasn't allowed to go to the new school in Bedford, it was too far away for my parents, I was very disappointed. It was a privilege to be a pupil ...Read more

A memory of Abergele by Jane Fairclough

The Bridge!

So long ago! I remember looking at it when passing by car on our way to seeing friends in Bedford.

A memory of Bedford in 1965 by Vincenza Catania

Minster Memories

I delivered papers for Attwell's newsagents in the 1970's, and being an entrepreneurial child, did two paper rounds! The first one was from the Square along Monkton road, down Egbert Road, then the cul-de-sac end of ...Read more

A memory of Minster in 1973 by Andy Finn

Remembering Rose Collins..

Yes I fondly remember Rose Collins working at the Queens Hall Cinema - sometimes she would let us under age kids in for an "A" film as long as we sat next to an adult who didn't mind having kids next to them. I lived in ...Read more

A memory of Brentford by Alfred Winkworth

Ice Cream

Does anyone remember the old ice cream vans that served Plato Road, Solon Road areas off the Acre Lane, Brixton? I have an uncanny and I'm sure not a healthy memory of remembering registration numbers from vehicles from years ago. We ...Read more

A memory of Brixton by Bob Mandale

Mixed Memories Of This Famous Hospital

About the time I was born in 1939, I had two aunts who were nurses in Claybury Hospital. Several years later, in the early 50s, I used to help the milkman from Drapers Farm and one of our biggest ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge in 1963 by Michael Prudence

Hilgay Village Shop

I attended Downham Market Grammar School between 1953 and 1956, when I left to start work. I lived at Fincham, but was a friend of Cedric Peto (whom we nickmamed Pedro). His parents kept the village shop and I used to visit them ...Read more

A memory of Hilgay in 1955 by Alastair Crichton

The Good Old Days Continued

I also recall the days when the old tramp used to go around the bins in the old market hall looking for food, and old Les the deaf mute who used to hang around the taxi rank on Market Hill, he used to go to Warwicks fish ...Read more

A memory of Luton by Michael Bream

Captions

111 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.

Caption For Elstow, The Swan Inn 1921

Those on the left were sold to the Bedford Borough Council for £1 in 1974 and restored.

Caption For Kempston, The Mill C1955

The slipway indicates that the river was the main transportation method, barges bringing in grain from the northern and eastern wheat-growing areas and removing the flour to merchants' storage in Bedford

Caption For Bedford, The Park C1960

At the end of the smart De Parys Avenue, Bedford Park was laid out to designs by the noted park designers William Barron and Sons from Derby in 1883 during Hawkins's first mayoralty.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

Scaffolding on the right indicates that the Bedford van production facility was undergoing an upgrade, and building works immediately beyond the bridge (which also contained part of the van production

Caption For Knebworth, London Road C1965

All the needs of a developing small town are in evidence - the Bedford lorry loaded with builders materials, Charles Love & Son's ironmongery and radio/TV engineer's (right), Lisles petrol station (near

Caption For Kempston, The Barracks C1955

has been given a new lease of life as a Masonic lodge, although part of the original Barracks, including the Keep, is to remain as a link to the Regimental War Memorial sited on the opposite side of Bedford

Caption For Kings Norton, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan's Statue 1898

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as the result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Caption For Kings Norton, The Church Of St John The Baptist C1955

was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728-94) of North Luffenham, Hallaton and finally Bedford

Caption For Luton, Wardown Park 2002

Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime.

Caption For Bedford, Bunyan Memorial And Church Green C1955

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Caption For Worthing, Marine Parade 1890

By 1894 the two smaller lodging houses, inappropriately named Great Terrace (right on above photograph), had been constructed at the southern end of Bedford Row.

Caption For Luton, Vauxhall Motors C1955

Bedford truck designs became the basis for a new breed of army vehicles; the QL made history as the company's first 4 x 4.

Caption For Luton, The Andrew Carnegie Public Library 1924

At the time, boys were travelling to Dunstable, Bedford and St Albans.

Caption For Hemel Hempstead, Box Moor 2005

He sold the property the next day to the Earl of Bedford and Peter Graye of Leicester.