• Reference
    MIC193
  • Title
    Items from Luton museum
  • Date free text
    1772-1902
  • Production date
    From: 1772 To: 1902
  • Scope and Content
    Dunstable volunteers: minutes and clothing accounts. 1803-4 Photographs of Luton police force, giving name, age, height and date of appointment. Arranged in order of rank and then in numerical order. c. 1902 Eaton Ford House, seminary copy book, of Miss Randall (mainly the rules for various types of arithmetic and appropriate examples). 1847 Pestalozzian School at Potton. Copy book of G. Randall (mainly handwriting examples). 1854 Woburn Academy copy book. (Inside front cover is an advertisement 'Young Gentlemen boarded by Joseph Daniel' terms 22 -25 guineas a year). Thomas Wilson, Mainly handwritiing examples - various short verses used. Christmas 1805 Woburn Academy copy book. Thomas Wilson. (as above) Midsummer 1807 Rate book of the overseers of Luton and its hamlets. 1815 Cardington - account of persons in the workhouse (giving names of those in the workhouse, list of sick persons given help, widows who received help, of girls who were sent out to service: with an index of names at the back). With a picture at the front of J. Howard, F.R.S. 'taken from nature' Mar 1788. 1787-1789 Bedford Archdeaconry - replies from parish incumbents to questionnaires (questions appear to have been about tithes, date of church, yearly value, parish libraries etc.) Whole of archdeaconry included [not just Luton area] A-P [Poddington] only. 1705 Constables bills and receipts and other papers for Dunstable [marked, wrongly, Constables accounts]. Includes doctor's bills, orders to constables, warrants, a few election papers. With a newspaper cutting concerning the discovery of the above papers - which concern a man called Franklin - in a house being demolished, 9 Oct 1924. 1814-1840 Account book of the overseers of Dunstable. 1772-1786
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  • Level of description
    item