Places
36 places found.
Those places high-lighted have photos. All locations may have maps, books and memories.
- Bedford, Bedfordshire
- Luton, Bedfordshire
- Ampthill, Bedfordshire
- Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
- Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
- Sandy, Bedfordshire
- Kempston, Bedfordshire
- Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire
- Wixams, Bedfordshire
- Whipsnade, Bedfordshire
- Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
- Potton, Bedfordshire
- Toddington, Bedfordshire
- Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire
- Stotfold, Bedfordshire
- Turvey, Bedfordshire
- Sutton, Bedfordshire
- Flitwick, Bedfordshire
- Shefford, Bedfordshire
- Clophill, Bedfordshire
- Westoning, Bedfordshire
- Great Barford, Bedfordshire
- Harrold, Bedfordshire
- Carlton, Bedfordshire
- Arlesey, Bedfordshire
- Woburn, Bedfordshire
- Stopsley, Bedfordshire
- Silsoe, Bedfordshire
- Lower Stondon, Bedfordshire
- Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire
- Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire
- Elstow, Bedfordshire
- Henlow, Bedfordshire
- Tingrith, Bedfordshire
- Totternhoe, Bedfordshire
Photos
1,870 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
948 maps found.
Books
6 books found. Showing results 25 to 6.
Memories
42 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Arthur Smith Was 12 When This Picture Was Taken
My dad was born Headcorn in 1891, grew up in the village. He served in the First World War and, later, moved to other areas in the south. He ceased travelling after arriving in Bedfordshire with my ...Read more
A memory of Headcorn by
In The Footsteps Of Dead Poets.
Just out of Trumpington, on the road to Grantchester, was the entrance to an area known as Byron’s Pool, named after Lord Byron who apparently frequented the area whilst at Cambridge University. Probably hoping ...Read more
A memory of Grantchester in 1956 by
Family Stories
My family lineage (Samuel) comes from Bedfordshire mainly around Old Warden and Biggleswade. My father always said at bedtime, "right, up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire!"
A memory of Old Warden by
Happy Days
I was supposed to have been born at the Green.. ended up being at Tynemouth... So I missed out on a commemorative silver spoon given to kids born in wallsend on the day the Queen Mother visited Wallsend.. 1.10.1954.. My family lived at ...Read more
A memory of Wallsend by
Copse Lane
An uncle, Arthur Garside owned a chemists in Freshwater following his service in the Royal Artillery during World War Two. He made Turkish Delight and would bring one or two trays of lemon and rose flavor when he visited us in ...Read more
A memory of Freshwater by
Dunstable Downs Bedfordshire
At the end of petrol rationing during the late 40's and in the 50's we would regularly visit Dunstable Downs to watch the gliders, all piled into my uncles Morris 8. The gliders would be towed into position at the far end of the ...Read more
A memory of Salford by
I Went To Dchs From 1948 To 1953 My Name Was Maureen Hurst Now Peacock
I remember all the people mentioned before . Including Pe teacher called Miss Law. I thought she was lovely. I was also there with Dudley Moore. I sang The lullaby from Midsummer ...Read more
A memory of Dagenham by
Ballymacscanlon And Wonderfull Ireland
I worked as a consultant engineer in Ireland in the early nineteen ninety's staying in the Carrickdale hotel in Dromad, just over the border, as my base in the South whilst working in Newry. I also ...Read more
A memory of Ballymascanlon by
Born In Liverstone Road 1948
Sorry to everyone but my memories will be vague as I left the area when I was 3yrs old, to live in Victoria dwellings Battersea Park Road. The family name was Batt Nan Grandad my uncles Terry & Micky shared the house ...Read more
A memory of Battersea by
Arlesey Bedfordshire
When my dad was demobbed after the war in 1946, we had to move back to London because of his job. We had all our funiture put on a lorry, and the local publican, a Ted Bland, delivered us to a requestioned place over a shop in ...Read more
A memory of Arlesey in 1940 by
Captions
37 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
The shop on the right was replaced in the 1930s by the neo-Georgian offices, Royal Chambers, and beyond the gabled building, now the Bedfordshire Probation Service, several buildings made way for the Granada
Easton Socon was originally in Bedfordshire, `on the borders of Huntingdonshire`; the early 20th-century directories tell us that the parish covered over 7000 acres, but only had a population of 2000
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
It looks out from the escarpment of the Greensand Ridge across the plain of central Bedfordshire through which the Great Ouse meanders.
The bell that sounds the hours weighs two tonnes, and is the heaviest bell in Bedfordshire. Civic power, like central government, was getting stronger.
The arrival of BBC Three Counties Radio in Luton meant that a daily paper was no longer feasible; covering Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Hertfordshire, it makes Luton a reference point for a wide area
This 75-mile-long footpath winds through the Bedfordshire countryside linking elements of Pilgrim's journeys and the more factual aspects of Bunyan's life.
Historical theory has it that it is possible to link Pilgrim's journeying to various locations within Bedfordshire, and the recent establishment of the John Bunyan Trail attempts to add substance to the
The sacristy was originally the chapel of St George - the first chapel to be built in Bedfordshire after the Reformation.
Ampthill Park was for many years the venue for large bi-annual camps organised by the Scout Movement in Bedfordshire.
Typical of many older cottages in central Bedfordshire, the mixture of timber cladding, wattle and daub, tile and thatch gives The Barn a picture postcard look to be envied.
Bedfordshire County Council took over education in 1902, and it was hoped that the Higher Grade School would serve Luton's growing needs.
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.
