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.

E17 The War Years

I was born in 1931 at 73Maynard Road and went to Maynard Road School. On the outbreak of war in 1939 I was evacuated to Bedford, then later during the war to Leicester. Our house was bombed in early 1941 and we moved into 347 ...Read more

A memory of Walthamstow in 1930 by George Speller

Earith Was In Huntingdonshire And Still Is

I was born in St Ives in 1939 but lived in Earith at what is now number 43. Next door was my Grandad's grocer's shop - Bert Russell. I moved to Peterborough in 1958 where I still live in Werrington ...Read more

A memory of Earith in 1940 by Lawrence Wright

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 Colin Crane

Elliotts Fish & Chip Shop, High Street, Hogsthorpe.

Hi I was born in 1963 in Hogsthorpe and went to the primary school in Thames Street, I remember some amazing times in Hogsthorpe helping my Mum and Dad in the fish and chip shop rumbling the potato's ...Read more

A memory of Hogsthorpe by Ian Elliott

Evacuee To Bedford 1939

I was evacuated to Bedford in 1939 aged 7 and stayed first of all with a Mrs Drake ,the wife of a captain Drake who was in command of a ship called the Warspite. I remember it was off Goldington rd. by the school where all the ...Read more

A memory of Bedford by donlacey2000

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 David Abbott

Franciscan School And Brudenell Road

My name in the 1960's was Pamela Ambridge. I was born in 1958 and went to Hillbrook Infant School. I remember the teachers there were; Mrs Tinkler (nice), Miss Bedford (she smacked me!) and Miss Shoot (nice). ...Read more

A memory of Tooting in 1965 by Pam Crooks

Frank Bedford

Hello Frank, I know you have sent a message to me as I managed to get a quick glance of it before it disappeared and I was unable to find it again but I did read that you were asking where abouts I lived in the Bridge. Well ...Read more

A memory of Woodford Bridge by norbet

From An Ex Resident Of Hever Avenue My Reply To Peter Harris

Hello Peter. My name is Richard Abbott I know the Hart family very well. We lived at "Manor Woods" Hever Avenue. My dad was a serving Army Officer and bought our bungalow off a Mr ...Read more

A memory of West Kingsdown by r.abbott3

Gerald’s Grocery Shop

Does anyone remember the Grocery shop that was once on Bedford Road, not far from Longland’s Primary School? It’s now a house and owned by a friend. I’m trying to find out the history of his property and ideally would like to ...Read more

A memory of Sidcup

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.