Reference
X69/42/113
Title
Bedford Local History Magazine Number 113
Date free text
Autumn 2024
Production date
From: 2024 To: 2024
Scope and Content
Contents:
- update on the Phoenix pub plaque.
- Life in Bedford 110 years ago from local newspaper reports (includes photograph of Christopher Fry as a boy with Scottish soldiers).
- Skating in Bedford by Bob Ricketts.
- The Spooner Affair by Gordon Vowles.
- Take a visit to Elstow (Gordon Vowles and Stuart Antrobus).
- Bedford's High Street and Dead Pubs by Paul Barnes.
- The Story of the Mark Rutherford Society by Nick Wilde.
- Archaeology in Bedford update (Bob Ricketts)
- Book review by Stuart Antrobus of 'Flight Surgeon: A War Diary 1941-1945 Thurman Shuller, Medical Corp' which is a diary of a flight surgeon in the US medical corp who served at 306 Bombardment Group at Thurleigh Airfield and who therefore gives some information on the interaction of the American servicement with English folk near the arifield.
Level of description
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