CRT130LUT/38

Copy of Luton News 'Our Town through the Ages' Centenary edition

1976

From: 1876 To: 1976

old accession number 5716

Pictorial newspaper supplement including advertisements. Editorial covering: Lady Zia Wernher of Luton Hoo Motor manufacturers Industry - Vauxhall, Chrysler, SKF, Electrolux, George Kent, Whitbread, Hayward Tyler, Cam Gears. Churches and chapels Luton News and its editors/journalists - Alec Gibbs, George Myers Details of the celebrations The Luton Riot of 1919 Fashion Hat making Luton Girls Choir Story of the romance of Walter and Hilda Horwood 60 years prevously compared to modern couple Denise Stringer and Mick Mulchinock Development of the town through the railway and engineering Luton Electricity Station (council owned) Growth through immigration, first from the depressed parts of the Uk, then from overseas Memories of May Turner, Reginald Fryer, Herbert Constance, Hilda Austin, Fred Stott, Frank Harris, William Cheshire and Arthur Buckingham Experience of Anne Percival visiting the Arndale Centre and a supermarket for the first time Luton Airport Town Council Town planning Two world wars Luton Town Football Club

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Wernher, Zia,
Gibbs, Alec,
Myers, George,
Horwood, Walter,
Horwood, Hilda,
Stringer, Denise,
Mulchinock, Mick,
Turner, May,
Fryer, Reginald,
Constance, Herbert,
Austin, Hilda,
Stott, Fred,
Harris, Frank,
Cheshire, William,
Buckingham, Arthur,
Percival, Anne

LUTON, newspapers, Luton Hoo, industry, Vauxhall Motors, Chrysler Motors, SKF, George Kent Limited, Electrolux, Whitbread Plc, Hayward Tyler, Cam Gears, churches, chapels, Luton News, rioting, fashion, hat manufacturer, Luton Girls Choir, railways, engineering, electricity, immigration, reminiscences, airports, town council, Town & Country Planning, World War One, World War Two, sport, football, Luton Town Football Club