• Reference
    Z1362/3/66
  • Title
    Dunstable & District Local History Society Newsletter no.66
  • Date free text
    February 2025
  • Production date
    From: 2025 To: 2025
  • Scope and Content
    Includes: - Chairman's notes re. the BBC film of the finding of the Dunstable Swan Jewel shown at the December meeting and related matters. - Leighton buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway the early years 1919-1930 by Nick Hill. - Did John Gerard ever visit Dunstable? by Hugh Garrod. - Notes written by Francis Alick Fowler (1891-1980) in 1974 showing how Dunstable has changed. - Honorary Freemen of the Borough of Dunstable by Elisabeth Pynn. Short pieces about: Worthington George Smith; Fred Turner Garrett; Charles Frederick Boskett; Sir Henry Herbert Hambling; Alfred William Webb; Harold William Parrott; two regiments awarded freedom of entry. - The Gostelows of Dunstable part 2. - Memories of old Dunstable - information about Charles William Clarke, who took charge of the Dunstable Borough Gazette in 1928, and Cornelius Vater.
  • Level of description
    item