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Gas Progress: the Bedford District Gas Co.’s Annual Bulletin and Co-Partners’ Journal, volume 1, no. 7. Includes: Beds Times photograph of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment war memorial in Kempston Road, Bedford, taken at night and illuminated by gas: general comments on the economic situation, unemployment, and the closure of Britannia Ironworks; contribution of the Company towards the Mayor’s Fund for the Unemployed (including line drawing of Brandy Snaps stall) at the Old English Fayre and their success in the decorated motor car and river pageant events (both illustrated); line drawing of the malt kiln in Mayes Yard, St Paul’s, Bedford; cartoon of a fight between gas and electric cookers.

December 1932

From: 1932 To: 1932

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BEDFORD, photographs, printed ephemera, magazines, Bedford Gas Company, Bedfordshire Times, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, war memorials, Bedford Kempston Road, unemployment, general labour, Mayor, Mayor's Fund for the Unemployed, Britannia Iron & Steel Works Limited, festivals, motor vehicles, cartoons, electricity, Bedford Mayes Yard, malting, gas