Reference
SDRiseleyLower8
Title
Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings etc with some manuscript entries
Date free text
1898 - 1971
Production date
From: 1898 To: 1971
Scope and Content
The items specifically relating to Bedfordshire are as follows:
- death of George Hurst [Bedfordshire Standard 30 Dec 1898];
- death of Anderson Fraser [Bedfordshire Times 11 Mar 1904];
- the battle of Cleat Hill (inter-school cadet force exercise) [Bedfordshire Times 25 Mar 1904];
- Our Portrait Gallery - C W Kaye, headmaster of Bedford Modern School [Bedfordshire Times 27 Oct 1911];
- career of L G Stileman-Gibbard [Bedfordshire Standard 3 Nov 1911];
- Photographs of Mayor of Bedford (Cllr W Roff) and the ex-mayor (Cllr J Basil Hope) [Bedfordshire Mercury 10 Nov 1911];
- “A Charge of Manslaughter - extraordinary trial at Bedford” (a fictitious court case enacted by law students, with cast list) [Bedfordshire Times 17 Feb 1911];
- death of Augustus Hill, captain of Bedford Volunteer Fire Brigade [Bedfordshire Mercury 22 Mar 1911];
- funeral of Augustus Hill [Bedfordshire Mercury 29 Mar 1912];
- death and funeral of Alfred Clare [Bedfordshire Times 8 Nov 1912];
- death of C C Stafford [Bedfordshire Standard 5 Feb 1915];
- death of E O Carpenter, late Master of Harriers;
- death of W G Carter-Mitchell [Bedfordshire Standard 24 Dec 1915];
- death of E T Williams, Justices’ Clerk [various newspapers 1953];
- “Seven Months - Five Accidents”, deaths of T C R Higgins, Lt.-Col. H T Craig and E T Williams, and accidents befalling J C E Robinson and R E A Pelham [1953];
- in memoriam J C Hamson, died 6 May 1970;
- “Some Lessons of the War” - an address given at a service of Church of England Men’s Society, St.Paul’s, Bedford, 4 Jun 1916 [manuscript];
- in memoriam Henry James Weller, 18 Dec 1906 - 25 Apr 1971;
- Sharnbrook Court closes after 135 years [Bedfordshire Times 27 Oct 1964];
- “White Gloves for the Chairman”, no cases at Bedford Magistrates’ Court on Christmas Eve;
- death of Mr Jarvis of the Eagles.
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