It was reported in The Bedfordshire Mercury on Saturday 5th April 1890 that an Inquest was held at the Bedford Infirmary on Friday 29th March before Dr Price, Coroner regarding the death of Frederick...
John Stride Ager was the younger of the two children of Eliza and Frederick Andrew Stride Ager. His sister, Hester was born on 7th June 1891 and John was born on 5th March 1893. They...
It was a fine Saturday afternoon in April 1879 when a happy group of friends and relatives gathered at Mr Goatley’s boatyard near Bedford bridge to collect their hire boat for an excursion down the...
James Wyatt was eleventh in the lineal descent from Thomas Wyatt, who was the brother of Sir Henry Wyatt, of Arrington. Thomas Wyatt was privy councillor to Henry V11, and great-uncle of Sir Thomas Wyatt,...
When thousands of Scottish Highlander soldiers arrived in Bedford for training in August 1914, the military authorities were concerned that an outbreak of infectious diseases such as measles could be life threatening for some of...
Private Arthur Charker of the 4th Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders was the son of Isabella and the late Henry Charker. His widowed mother lived at 120 Academy Street, Inverness, Scotland. Private Arthur Charker was one...
Quite often, a tragic event prompts people to show the very best of Human Nature; I remember that after the Aberfan disaster of 1966 communities all over the country raised money for that poor Welsh...
Norman Greenshields was an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Member of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers and a Member of the Sanitary Institute. For some 30 years, he was...
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...
William Harrison was born in Luton in 1802. He took over the running of Duck Mill in the early 1840s. He lived in a house behind the Mill at 18 Potter Street (now Cardington Road),...