Reference
UDLLPub1/1
Title
Leighton Buzzard and Linslade Official Guide
Date free text
no date, c1950
Production date
From: 1950 To: 1950
Scope and Content
Includes articles on:
- John Dickinson and Co Ltd, Paper Makers and Manufacturing Stationers, whose business started in 1804 (advertisements)
- a geological survey of the local area accompanied by photographs showing sand pits, lime works, cement works at Pitstone and the Firbank Pool, Leighton Buzzard
- 'In England's Green and Pleasant Land', a list of six routes of nearby countryside and villages:
Route 1, The Dunstable Downs
Route 2, The Chilterns
Route 3, The Valley of the Ouzel
Route 4, Part of the Vale of Aylesbury
Route 5, Aylesbury to Linslade
Route 6, The Duke of Bedford's Estate at Woburn Park and King's Wood
- Photographs showing:
a view of the golf course
the Market Cross at Leighton Buzzard
Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard
the parish church of All Saints, Leighton Buzzard
the Monolith in Church Square
North Street, Leighton Buzzard
Southcott Green, Linslade
the interior of St Barnabas' Church, Linslade
the Grand Junction Canal at Old Linslade
Cedars School Swimming Bath, Leighton Buzzard
Hockcliffe Street, Leighton Buzzard
The Cedars School Playing Fields at Mentmore Road, Linslade
view of North Street, Leighton Buzzard
The Martins at Linslade
- Also includes aerial photograph of Foundry Equipment Ltd, and photographs accompanying advertisements for Buckmasters Garages and Dillamores of Linslade, house furnishers
Level of description
item