In a nutshell, the Friends of Bedford Cemetery is a small volunteer-led charity with members who try to look after this historic and beautiful place and encourage others to explore, enjoy and learn more about...
The Bedfordshire Times and Independent, Saturday 17 April 1880 reported as follows: ‘On Monday afternoon the borough coroner (Dr. Prior) held an enquiry at the Angel Inn, Cauldwell-street, Bedford, into the circumstances attending the...
Whatever kind of person would choose to have a swastika on a headstone? Somebody evil? A Nazi sympathiser surely? * Well…no. In fact, a century ago, a Swastika was for many years a fairly common choice...
The Bedford Times and Bedfordshire Independent, Tuesday 4th April 1871, page 8 reported that ‘The scaffold, which is the same structure on which Wm. Worsley was hung ,...
The Bedfordshire Times and Independent, Saturday 12 August, 1882 page 6 reported as follows: ‘On Sunday morning an event occurred which, looked at from whatever point of view, seems to be as worthy of honourable recognition...
Albert Willie Gregory Prosser was born in 1870 at Luton, Bedfordshire. He was one of the four children of John Gregory Prosser, and his wife Phebe, nee Cannon Field (1842-1878). John was a carpenter, joiner...
Brickhill House was the farmhouse to Brickhill Farm that once stood over the brow of Cemetery Hill. When John Foster and his family lived there in the early 1800s, there were beautiful groves, lawns and...