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Chimney Corner, Manor Road, Kempston (Hardwick)

1942

From: 1942 To: 1942

Plan of two adjoining cottages and their gardens on the North side of Manor Road, including the positions of the road, fruit (apple and plum) trees, chicken run, boundary hedges, ditches and of the head and feet of the dead body (not identified). The plan was surveyed for the investigation into the murder of Lance Corporal Thomas Astle on the 18 August 1942 and is a duplicate of one of the exhibits used in the court proceedings. For further information see the Bedfordshire Times reports: 21 August page 7, column 6; and 21 September 1942, page 9 columns 5 - 6 and page 10, column 6.

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soldier, police, fruit trees, cottages, ditching, general courts, boundaries, Kempston Hardwick Chimney Corner, Kempston Hardwick Manor Road, Kempston Hardwick