Reference
X831/1
Title
Sketch book entitled "Ideas for Village of Sharnbrook, also for Bunyan's village at Elstow near Bedford added in a letter hand" by Ina Sheldon-Williams
Date free text
c1910-1914
Production date
From: 1910 To: 1914
Scope and Content
Subjects include:
Page 12 - Sign of Sharnbrook incorporating "Osbern the Fisher" (a landholder in Domesday Book)
Page 14-15 Note relating to Osbern
Page 16 - Sketch of site of proposed sign on what was the then Sharnbrook Coffee Tavern (run by J. Willoughby) view from Church Lane across High Street to Park Lane Sign for Elstow (see Z 49/332)
Pages 24 & 26 John Bunyan climbing Hill of Difficulty
Page 33 Site of Board probably Elstow
Page 394 View of Entrance to the Green of plastered timber house
Page 38 Another site of board c.1910-1914
N.B. John Willoughby was the proprietor of the Coffee Tavern at this period. The Coffee Tavern is not listed in the 1924 Commercial Directory.
Level of description
item