Artikelname: Bedford
Artikelbeschreibung: Bedford exhibits a wealth of history in its old buildings and in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments which transformed it into an educational, industrial and residential centre. This fascinating selection from photographic archives naturally includes places associated with John Bunyan, author of "The Pilgrim's Progress", John Howard, the philanthropist, and Sir William Harpur, from whose sixteenth-century endowment sprang four public schools and many almshouses. The photographs also feature the contribution of other locally significant figures such as the Chethams, boat-builders and cinema exhibitors, the prolific architect Albert Prosser, and the Howard family of agricultural engineers. This is an endlessly fascinating anthology of former days in Bedford.

Artikelname: Bedfordshire's Lost Railways
Artikelbeschreibung: The first phase of British railway building in the 1830s and '40s left Bedfordshire virtually untouched; it wasn't until the Midland Railway started building through the county to reach London in the 1850s that a web of branch lines began to spring up. Unusually, however, the whole of the county's network was complete as early as 1872 and, while a long period of stability followed, the inevitable decline began less than a century later. The lines that are left today really only serve the major towns, the exception being the remarkable Bedford Branch, which against all the odds remains open and, with its half-timbered stations and low platforms, in largely the condition it was in at the end of steam. This detailed history contains forty-nine period photographs, many of them featuring steam locomotives and stations long closed but well-remembered. Featured locations include Bedford St Johns, Sandy, Potton, Stanbridgeford, Luton Hoo, Luton Bute Street, Hatfield, Dunstable, Henlow, Henlow Camp, Turvey, Wootton Broadmead, Three Counties, Arlesey, Chiltern Green, Bedford Midland Road, Ampthill, Oakley, and Sharnbrook.