• 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