• Reference
    PCBillington19/64
  • Title
    Photo of headline and picture from Leighton Buzzard Observer: “Cottages Destroyed at Billington - thatched roofs ablaze”. Picture shows a man in uniform walking over smouldering thatched roofs of Orchard Cottage and St Margarets Cottage, at the corner of Stanbridge Road and Northall Road [See also PC Billington 19/65 and 19/66*]
  • Date free text
    1950s
  • Production date
    From: 1950 To: 1960
  • Scope and Content
    Black and white photograph measuring 7.5 x 5 cms. Items marked * appear in enlarged format in the book “Around Leighton Buzzard and Linslade”. The photographs were collected by the parish council in preparation for the book, which was published by Sutton 1998 (search room shelf, ref: 130 LEI). The collection was deposited at the Record Office by Maureen Brown, secretary of Leighton Linslade Local History Research Group.
  • Level of description
    item