Z1463/3/13

Transactions of Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeological and Historical Society. No. 13

2019

From: 2019 To: 2019

Contents: - Early postcard of the Globe Inn, Linslade. - Stouthcourt Stud Farm, Leighton Buzzard - newspaper cutting. - oldest picture of the High Street. - poem by Rev'd S J Forrest regarding the origins of the name Buzzard in Leighton Buzzard. - Benjamin Bevan's 1819 map of Leighton Buzzard. - 2/4 Bridge Street - peruke maker to hairdresser. - Excavation in Bridge Street by Bernard Jones. - Leonard Trent VC - more tales from Billington Park. - Excavations at Old Linslade. - Pioneers of canal holidays by Alan Keef. - 169 Heath Road (and the Travellers Rest, which was next door) by Ruth Roy. - Photographs of Leighton Buzzard from the air by Gordon Franks taken in 1968. - Ashburnham Crescent, Linslade by Tony Birch. - Memories of being a child in Linslade by Patricia Griffin. - John Castle and Leighton Buzzard workhouse, school canteen at Newton Longville village school by Alan Scott. - Potato in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, once carried in the pocket of Henry Hopkins of Leighton Buzzard to prevent rheumatism. - Obituaries to Maureen Brown and Ludovic McRae.

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Brown, Maureen,
Franks, Gordon,
Hart, Richard,
Jones, Bernard,
Birch, Tony,
Bevan, Benjamin,
Trent, Leonard,
Keef, Alan (d),
Roy, Ruth,
Griffin, Patricia,
Castle, John,
Hopkins, Henry,
McRae, Ludovic

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