Reference
Z29/3
Title
Dunstable Borough Gazette. 125 years souvenir edition.
Date free text
1990
Production date
From: 1865 To: 1990
old accession number 10966
Scope and Content
Includes:
Copy of Thomas Fisher watercolour of High Street North (Slide 994)
Copy of Thomas Fisher watercolour of the old Anchor Inn, High Street North (slide 1419)
Copy of painting of west front of Dunstable Priory Church c. 1830 showing procession of boys from Chews school entering the church. The painting was stolen from the church and ruined when it was dumped on Dunstable downs.
Article: 'How newspapers began in Dunstable'. Picture of the first editor W.H. Derbyshire; photograph of the site of the original offices of Dunstable Chronicle; photograph of James Tibbett Jnr's shop in High Street South - publisher of Dunstable Chronicle & Monthly Reporter (1855); photograph of James Tibbett; picture of the Enterprise Printing Works where Tom Tibbett started the Dunstable Gazette (1865); photograph of James Taylor, proprietor of the Gazette, outside his office at 39 High Street North; street view of cross roads and Middle Row looking from High Street North (1875).
Article: 'Council and its service to town'. Photograph of the Victorian Town Hall, demolished 1966.
Article: 'A great base for holidaymakers'. Photographs of Dunstable Downs and Whipsnade Zoo.
Article: 'Butchers, baker - and banks'. Images of retail advertisements.
Article: 'After the writing came the talking'. Account of Gazette writer Betty Hill and her subsequent career as a public speaker.
Article: 'A town full of happy memories'. Reminiscences of Andrew Wallis, newspaper editor.
Article: 'A time when the town changed'. Reminiscences of Don Birdsey, editor of the Gazette in the early 1960s.
Picture by George Shepherd of the telegraph station that once stood on Dunstable Downs, painted from memory in 1819, 5 years after the telegraph was dismantled.
Article: 'Paintings of the Priory'. (slides 995, 1611)
Photograph of Priory House, High Street South c. 1820 (slide 706)
Photograph of Francis Ashton's Almshouses c. 1820 (slide 694)
Photograph of the opening of Dunstable Town Cricket Club ground in Bull Pond Lane
Article: 'Exciting start to career'. Reminiscences of Denis O'Donoghue.
Article: 'Changing fortune of town industry'. Photographs of Waterlow factory in George Street; Bagshawe Conveyors factory in Church Street; hat factory of Messrs Munt and Brown in High Street South.
Article: 'Family who played a vital role'. Story of the Flory family, industrialists and property developers.
Article: 'Dunstable's place in our literature'.
Article: 'Town name and its derivation'.
Article: 'Arms in varied forms'.
Article: 'Remembering all the big stories'. Reminiscences of Paul Whiting re crime stories.
Article: 'Town's endless traffic problems'.
Article: 'Country richness on our doorstep'.
Aerial view of town centre 1989.
Images from the Register of the Fraternity of St John the Baptist.
Format
Newspaper
Level of description
item