Reference
X675/3
Title
Newspaper cuttings album kept by Mr Henry J Barfoot [the father of the depositor]
Date free text
1920s - 1947
Production date
From: 1920 To: 1947
Scope and Content
Including:
Death certificate of Mr H J Barfoot (after post mortem), Lincoln, 8 April 1947
Loose photograph of Bedford Amateur Operatic Society productions - 'The Gondoliers', 'Yeoman of the Guard' and 'Patience' [1920s]
Articles entitled 'May Day 1936', 'Conception', 'The Aftermath', and 'Poachers All'
Picture and presentation to Mr H J Barfoot on his leaving Ampthill, with brief account of the foundation of an Operatic Society in Ampthill, (Ampthill News, 2 April 1940)
Independent Order of Oddfellows, Rock of Friendship Lodge, Ampthill, annual returns and balance sheets, 1931-1939, 1942 [Mr H J Barfoot is recorded as Secretary, 1931-1935]
Photograph of the combined bowls team of Woburn and Ampthill before the start of thier match, [1930s?]
Photograph of group of men [unidentified], reproduced in the Bedfordshire Times [1930s-1940s]
Photograph of man riding on lama [Wingfield family zoo]
3 Other photographs, presumably of the Barfoot family
Letters of condolence on the death of Mr Barfoot, sent to Mrs Gracie from Alan Lennox-Boyd, House of Commons, and A H Wingfield, Ampthill House, 25 April 1947
Newspaper cutting by Henry Bedford [Barfoot?] entitled 'Her Majesty at Ampthill. First Queen's Visit for Four Centuries' [1934]
Letter [stuck inside album] from W E Palmer, Bedfordshire Times, to Mr Barfoot saying he has enjoyed his stories, 20 June 1930
Photograph of thatched cottage with man [Mr Wingfield?] talking to woman in doorway [1930s?]
Various cuttings from the Ampthill News, by the Hill Men (The District Week by Week) and also 'Memories and Musings by Henry Bedford, 1942-1943
Level of description
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