BorBE1/1/3

Corporation rental - notes on leases, arranged by lessee, not in alphabetical order, but indexed. Notes on changes of use, alterations, demolition and redevelopment particularly in relation to the building of the new market and the Corn Exchange and the Bedford and Cambridge Railway company. Mention of tolls [p56], weighing machine ['pulled down July 1872' p43], use as a police office ['This house was coverted into a police office in the year 1857' p44] and destruction of the Butter-house by fire [useful notes for history of rebuilding and development p59]

1826 - 1872

From: 1826 To: 1872

60, No. of pieces: 1

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Bedford Borough police, railways, weights and measures, Bedford Corn Exchange, tolls, FIRE