Reference
CRS4/1
Title
Bedfordshire Village Scrapbook Competition
Date free text
1955-1956
Production date
From: 1955 To: 1956
Scope and Content
File of papers regarding the competition, which was sponsored by The Bedfordshire Times; the County Federation of Women’s Institutes, the Parish Councils’ Association and the Rural Community Council. The idea was based on a competition that had recently been run in Northamptonshire. The scrapbooks were to ‘deal with the village from 1800 to the present day, with its buildings, roads, fields, farms and families, railway or river. It was ‘strongly urged that some scrapbooks should be deposited in the County Record Office’ – those that were deposited are under reference X535.
Includes: guidance for competitors, press cuttings, invitation to view the entries, judges remarks.
Reference
Level of description
file