Reference
BP45
Title
Scrapbook, containing miscellaneous press cuttings on national and local (mainly Biggleswade) events, with various items concerning the Spong family and the activities of the Free Churches.
Date free text
1875-1913
Production date
From: 1875 To: 1913
Scope and Content
For full details of contents see index at front of volume. Contents include:
- Press cuttings re Biggleswade School Board, July 1875
- Press cuttings re Biggleswade riverside path, Feb-May 1880
- Press cuttings re riot at Biggleswade, March/April 1880
- Copies of the articles form the Bedfordshire Times in the 'Round the County' series, on Biggleswade (5/12 May 1899), Cockayne Hatley (14 April 1899), Everton and Tetworth (31 March 1899), Potton (17 March 1899), Sutton (24 March 1899) and Wrestlingworth (7 April 1899)
- Photograph from the Bedfordshire Times 30 January 1903, of the Rev John Brown, pastor of Bunyan Meeting church in Bedford from 1864 to 1903, with press cuttings concerning his farewell services
- Press cuttings concerning Art Exhibition and Museum of Curiosities at Biggleswade Institute, August 1884
- Press cuttings concerning the death and funeral of the Rev James Spong, March 1884
- Press cuttings concerning the Rev A D Spong, many years minister at Cliftonville Congregational church, West Brighton, 1872-1897
- Press cuttings concerning presentation to Capt. D M Spong retiring Superintendent of Biggleswade Fire Brigade, with reminiscences of his career, 1913
- Cuttings re the Nansen expedition to the North Pole etc 1893-1896.
Level of description
item