Scope and Content
including:
Advertisments from diary and railway timetable (all Biggleswade unless otherwise stated)
- A J Wakes, confectioner, Mill Street and Hitchin Street
- G J Webb, cycle dealer, High Street
- Swan Hotel, proprieter - Harry T Jell
- Stones and Skelton, builders, plumbers etc
- Jordan and co., Holme Mills, corn merchants
- Spong and Son, wine and spirit merchants
- C E Huckle, shortmead Street and London Road, fruiterer, greengrocer and nurseryman
- J H Barlow, Stratton Street, grocer and provision merchant
- Gee and Sons, seed merchants and nurserymen
- Morton and Kinman, ironmongers
- C F Braitling, Shortmead Street , pawnbroker and general salesman
- Spong and Son (cont), printers
- Saunders, Bros, The Square, coachbuilders
- Brookbanks, between the Banks, boys and gentlemen's clothing
- New Inn, prop - Mrs C E Ferguson (funerals furnished)
- H church , Shortmead Street, house furnisher
- C Warren, Church Street, butcher
- Walter P Denny, High Street, boot and shoe maker
- F W Maddams, High Street , family grocer and insurance agent
- Spong and son, Biggleswade and Shefford, dispensing chemists
- J Phillips and sons, Market Square, photographer, stationer
- Temperance Refrshment Rooms, High Street, prop - E A Knott
- H Frayling, High Street, family draper
- E Dodimead, High Street, cabinet maker , sports requisters
- Spong and Son, Biggleswade and Shefford, chemist
- F Larkinson, Hitchin Street , ironmongery, watches etc
[1903]
Pictures from a Postal View Souvenir' published by E Chew and sons, Biggleswade (all Biggleswade unless otherwise stated):
Market Square
Hitchin Street
Shortmead Street
River Bridge
Station Road
Wesleyan Chapel
St Andrew's Church
Riverside Walk
River Ivel
Market Square [different view from above]
High Street
Fairfield Avenue
[early 20th century?]
Also included:
Sheet 1 - Sandy and District Floral and Hortcultural Society, admission ticket, 29 August 1890
- seat ticket for an Eisteddfod at the Town Hall, Biggleswade, 3 December 1903
- Hen Drysdale, photographic wallet and cover mount
- Sandy and District Floral and Horticultural Society, programme of music at the first exhibition, 3 September 1869
Sheet 2 - another copy of Sandy and Distrcit Floral and Horticultural Society, programme of music, 1869
Sheet 3 - Details of the musical pieces to be played, 1869
Sheet 9 & 10 - Poster giving 'Festivities' on the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, 10 March 1863
Sheet 15 - Manor of Biggleswade. Admission of Charity Bell to a cottage in High Street, Biggleswade, on the surrender of John
Mosley and wife Elizabeth, 14 and 15 April 1761
Sheet 17 - Copy of assignment of goodwill of business as innkeeper of the George Hotel, Biggleswade, and as a coal and manure merchant. Martha Parker to Arthur Dixon. Consideration - £200. 4 April 1900
19th and 20th Centuries