Z1463/3/14

Transactions of Leighton Buzzard and District Archaeological and Historical Society. No. 14

2020

From: 2020 To: 2020

Contents: -Robert Palmer VC - more tales from the Billington Park estate. - Linslade tornado of 21 May 1950. - Prizefighting - at Woburn in 1808 and by Tom Tring of Leighton. - the Corbet raven (emblem of the Corbet family, Lords of the Manor of Linslade). - South Bedfordshire coat of arms. - Train tickets. - Helen Randell - photographs supplied by her granddaughter of the young Helen the heroine of the society's book 'Bigamy, Bankruptcy, War and Divorce'. - Heartbreak in Toddington - Richard Hart tells Evelyn Fisher's story of Johan 'Joe' Lindeloo. - Excavations at Old Linslade by Bernard Jones. - Obituary to Jeffrey Langdown (1947-2020) - The Ashwell family and the Ashwell Street and Edward Street named after them by Pauline Hey. - Bells of Leighton Buzzard and Wing. - Bill Marshall goes on a tour of places he frequented in his younger days. - Report of a court case in the Bedfordshire Mercury 1853 regarding the burgling of Thomas Matthews' house in the High Street. - Famous residents of Leighton House and links to Nelson and George IV.

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Hart, Richard,
Jones, Bernard,
Palmer, Robert,
Langdown, Jeffrey,
Tring, Thomas,
Corbet,
Randell, Helen,
Fisher, Evelyn,
Lindeloo, Johan,
Hey, Pauline,
Ashwell,
Marshall, Bill,
Matthews, Thomas

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