Reference
Z987
Title
The New Bridge, Community Magazine for Harrold & Carlton, later The Bridge.
Date free text
1989 onwards
Production date
From: 1989
Admin/biog history
The New Bridge' a community magazine, with a strong underlying Christian flavour, for the parishes of Harrold and Carlton was launched in June 1989 with the support of the Inter-Church Planning Committee and a grant from the Bedfordshire Rural Community Council as a replacement for the monthly 'Bridge' magazine and the United Reformed Church Newsletter. Six volumes were produced every twelve months, and as the first volume each year appears in February, the twelve month period ends in January the next year.
The name changed to The Bridge in 1995.
Scope and Content
Typically, each edition covers news from Harrold and Carlton, notices of church services, births, marriages, deaths and obituaries, and includes reports from Parish Councils, Baptist Meetings, Harrold United Reformed Church, Carlton Hall Farm and many social and sporting groups such as the Discussion Group, Brownies, Cubs and Scouts, Home Watch, Friends of Harrold Surgery, Carlton and Chellington Historical Society and seventeen or more other local organisations.
The first volume of 1998 contains a transcript of a Jubilee Petition to be presented by St Peter's, St Mary's and the Chapel to the G8 Conference of world leaders in Birmingham, supporting the cancellation of the backlog of Third World debt before the millennium.
Archival history
Acc. 7971 Documents deposited by Mrs Jenny Morgan of Carlton, Bedford on 4 June 1998, other accessions from other sources.
Level of description
fonds