Colmworth Archives V1
Local History Archives V. 12
UPDATED AUGUST 2015
The archives are grouped into 4 sections:
• General History, Books and Articles Page 1
• Colmworth Page 3
• Neighbouring Towns and Villages Page 11
• Topics & Themes Page 15
All our archives are placed in a secure storage facility in Numerical Box Order.
However those marked with a * are in easier/access boxes. Those marked with a ! are in large Display folders. If you wish to have a look at any archives, please contact the Secretary.
GENERAL HISTORY, BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Periodicals: General BOXES 2 & 3
Local Historian Feb 2002-Nov 2005 (not Nov 2002) (15 copies in all) plus May, Aug, Nov 2006, Nov 2007, Feb 2008, May 2008, Aug 2008, Nov 2008, May 2009, Aug 2009, Nov 2009, May 2010, Nov 2010. Feb 2011, May 2011, Aug 2011, Feb 2012, May 2012,Feb 2013, May 2013, Aug 2013, Oct 2013. BOX 03
Local History News Spring 2002-Autumn 2005(13 copies in all) plus Spring & Summer & Autumn 2006, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter 2007, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter 2008, Spring, Summer 2009, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter 2010. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2011, Summer 2012, Autumn 2012, Winter 2012, Sept. 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Autumn, 2013, Winter 2013 BOX 03
The Historian Autumn 2002-Spring2004 no.75-81(7 copies in all) BOX 02
Local History Magazine May/June2001-March/April2002 85-90 (6 copies in all) BOX 02
Family Tree Magazine Nov2001 BOX 02
Ancestors Oct/Nov2001 +April/May2002 BOX 02
Women’s History Magazine June 2003 issue44 BOX 02
B.B.C. History Magazine May2002 and special issue on Powers of the Press BOX 02
B.B.C. Your Families War History BOX 02
Bedfordshire Mag photocopy of Article on Colmworth Winter 1959/60 BOX 07
Rural History Today, July 2001 Issue 1 BOX 02
Village Voice – see Keysoe
Series of Bedfordshire Archaeological Society Journals (19 in total) - containing articles by Ian Freeman on North Bedfordshire Buildings.
CBA (Archaeology) Report No. 13
The Archaeological study of churches (book)
How to Record Churchyards (booklet)
Archaeology by Experiment (book)
Milestones and Waymarkers Vol 2 (Published 2006), Vol 3 (Pub. 2009) } BOX 02
Milestone Society; activities (2 leaflets)
Local Historian: July 2014, October 2014 BOX 03
Local History News: Summer 2014, Autumn 2014
Periodicals: Bedfordshire EASIER ACCESS BOXES
*Bedfordshire Magazine: 1947, 1956, 1983, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999(2 copies)
1950, 1959/60, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1989, 1995 issues not for loan-photocopies are available
*Bedfordshire Magazine: Summer 1947, Winter 1959-60, Winter 1984, Autumn 1993, Spring 1999
Periodicals: Local archive/record office (Bedfordshire) BOX 04
Bedfordshire + Luton archive + record service newsletter Dec 1998, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012 Winter 2013/14, New Year 2014.
Prophile April 2003-Dec 2005 (3 issues)
Several guides relating to services/holdings at Bedford record office
Bedfordshire Parish Series leaflet No 4; Bedfordshire/Luton Archive local record office
Summary list of Archive holdings, April 2006 (2 copies)
Local Studies Bulletin
Beds Parish Register – August 02
BLARS Summary of their Archive Holdings Aug 02 – April 06 – Aug 06
Local History: Miscellaneous BOX 07
Local history societies; Bedfordshire 2002+2003, 2004+2005
History in Bedfordshire newsletter: Bedfordshire local history association Summer 2000
re:-Wrest Park+ Orangery
History in Bedfordshire Autumn 2012 BOX 03
Several publication lists on local history
Local history courses (pack)
Victoria County History: Bedfordshire vols 1-3 notes on cities, towns, and villages covered.
Phillimore complete catalogue 2004 to 2005: British local and family history
Family History: The basics and beyond BBC Publication
Journey into History: Use the Internet to become a history detective. BBC publication
Internet resources for history
*Agricultural wages: recent wages (1) from 2/06/85 (2) from 1/9/83
History and Environment Record (H.E.R.) Leaflet BOX 03
Patterns in Stone – St. Mary’s Church, Bedford BOX 05
Books in care of Mrs Thelma Marks (member) BOX 10
Fen, fire, and blood by Edward Storey
Turf village by Andrew Day
Bedfordshire historic buildings: the heritage and its problems today
Cameo of Fashion 1951 – 1982; The story of D’arcy & Rosamunde of Bedford by Thelma Marks
History of cooking folder including 300 Years of Food and Wine by Janet Clarke – catalogues 41&42
Bedford 50 Years Ago, Victor Farrer
“Come Out of the Parlour” article by John Martin Robinson
BOX 11
The Golden Century; Europe 1598-1715, Maurice Ashley
The Knight and Chivalry, Richard Barber
King Arthur in Legend and History, as above
The Greek Experience, C M Bowra
Britannia; A History of Roman Britain, Sheppard Frere
The World of Rome, Michael Grant
The Climax of Rome, as above
Europe in the 20th Century, George Lichtheim
The World of the Phoenicians, Sabatino Moscati
The Age of Reconnaissance; Discovery Exploration and Settlement 1450-1650, J H Parry
BOX 12
Victory Cook Book by Marguerite Pattern
Medieval Cooking Today by Moira Baxter
7 Centuries of English Cooking by McKendry Maxime
Middlesex
Northumberland
Leicestershire & Rutland
Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire
Derbyshire - “The King’s England” Arthur Mee
The Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton 1526-1546 Ed. Barbara Tearle
Mr & Mrs Knife, Fork and Baby Spoon (2 copies) (illustrator local resident - Harriet Longfield)
By Betty Spencer-Thomas
Refer to WW1 and WW2 for books on Bedfordshire Regiments
BALDWIN, A.W. and PALMER, W.E.: In Bedfordshire Byways
COLMWORTH
Colmworth Booklets BOX 07
Millennium 2000 (2 copies)
Colmworth festival events
Art at Colmworth 1977
Colmworth Periodicals BOX 17
Colmworth & Neighbours History Society Journal Issue 1BOX 09
Colmworth Chronicle Special Edition Dec 1999 }
Colmworth Chronicle issues up to Feb 2014 }
Duplicate copies of above 26–53, 55-57, 60
Parish magazine 1965-1972 BOX 18
Interlink (first deanery magazine 1972-Dec1981) BOX 18
Wilden, Ravensden, + Colmworth Church Newsletter issues up to Jan 2014 (Oct 2012 issue is missing) Feb, March, April, 2014 BOX 18
Victoria County History – Colmworth
Transcription of Medieval Documents circa 1350 (by Kevin Ward)
Colmworth Chronicle: issues up to May 2015
Wilden, Ravensden & Colmworth Church Newsletter: issues up to June 2015 (but Oct 2012 issue is
missing) BOX 18
Colmworth: buildings/land BOX 07
Colmworth Manor
Crop markings/Roman villa- aerial photographs- see also information re: Bignor Roman villa (Roman history)
Colmworth Manor House – article in Beds Today, Aug 2011
Nethersted Manor - picture
Sale of Swan public house 1830- poster
Sale of freehold estates in Colmworth + Roxton 1892- poster
(includes Channels End Farm)
Sale of Farmhouse + land 1824- poster
*Blacksmiths shop; watercolour painting by Thelma Marks
Letter re Smithey 8/2005 (also in Colmworth Chronicle Issue 70 Sept 2005)
Sale of Manor of Colmworth + 4 farms (Church End Farm, Lordship Farm, Channels End Farm, + Nethersted Farm) -1795
Netherstead Brick hand-made probably 19th C BOX 12
W.T.Lack; grocer 20th century – items of stationery BOX 09
*Post Office 1851-1914
Village Hall; Opening 1995 – photographs
Village Hall – Information and Plan/Photo in Annual Report of Beds Rural Comm. Charity 1993/94 p.24
! Colmworth Mill – see Mills
House sale details of Grade 2 listed house
*Netherstead Manor by Thelma Marks and notes – drawing
! Colmworth Wood 1882
! The Medieval Dam; drawing and text
! Geology of Colmworth
Auction poster ; three tenements 1830 – Colmworth
Auction posters (1) Channels End Farm
(2) Freehold estates ; Colmworth & Roxton 1892
(3) Fields and arable land, Colmworth
(4) Farmhouse ; Colmworth 1824
Affordable housing 1989 Project
*An Ancient Manor House re Manor Farm
*City Lane – Pictures of buildings and lane
Village Hall – luncheon details 20/8/1996
Colmworth Houses – A selection (taken in 2008) CD }
Affordable Houses in Colmworth 1989 }BOX 08
Colmworth buildings for sale: various 2015 BOX 08
Colmworth: Census BOX 08
Census 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 (All these available to download from website)
*Census 1881 & disc
List of inhabitants 1900-1945 (pack)
12th Annual report of the poor law commissioners 1846
*1901 on disc
*1891 on disc
also rural Nth Beds 1900 Census Study/Maps see Rural Life
See also Bolnhurst / Colmworth for Episcopal visitations 1706 – 1720
Colmworth Church – St. Denys BOX 08
Large photograph +Miscellaneous information
Plans + specifications
Information re: church – 1980s- 1996
*Photograph re: skeleton in church
Photograph of marriage of Betty Johnson’s daughter at church
Photographs of interior
*Stained glass/church- see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1968
Letter to Revd. Sheila Morton 2005
Notes on church of St. Denys/Colmworth parsonage 1607-1822
Information re: Timothy Matthews
Folder on Matthews family and Mormons
Map of Colmworth church – see map of church – 1624 in map collection
St. Denys church – see photocopy on Colmworth church from Bedfordshire Magazine Spring 1989
St. Denys church; notes for the proposed Son et Lumiere production
Grave found in St. Denys church tower; notes and plan (2copies)
*Colmworth Graveyard; Plan (in roll)
*Epitaphs in number order from the graveyard July 1993 by Harvey Smith
Drawings exterior (2) copies
Drawings interior (2) copies
*Epitaphs; inscriptions recorded by Arthur Weight Mathews 1913
! *The Tower; plan
! St. Denys church; photos (7) plus sketch and text
Talk on Matthew Paris – poster – 1/7/2011
Memorial Inscriptions in the Churchyard, and Inscriptions in the Church, Sept. 2009.
Memories of Thelma Marks 1962-2009
Bells – 1) Article on the Bell Foundry
2) Albert Morris, Bell Ringer
William Otter, Rector of St. Denys 1812.
Matthew Paris Exhibition and Talk at St. Denys Church 1/7/2011
Diamond Jubilee Service 3/6/2012 leaflets (2) }
Timothy Matthews by Chris Walker 18/10/04 C.D. }
Varley, Joan ‘A Bedfordshire Clergyman/ or the Reformer and his Bishop’ (An Article on Timothy Matthews).
Bedfordshire Local History Association – History in Bedfordshire, Spring 2013. Article on Revd. Thomas Whitehurst, Rector of Colmworth, 1786-1791
Friends of St. Denys initial meeting 1/2/2014
Heales Charity Folder
Church Register of Expenditure
Colmworth Cricket
Photocopies of photographs of cricket team – date? Identities?
Colmworth Country Park
Letter and leaflet re official opening 22/5/2010
Photos of first meeting re the Country Park 2008
Colmworth Families/Estates BOX 01
Estate of William Dyer –date?
Moore family –see photocopy of Moores of Colmworth + Bolnhurst from Bedfordshire Magazine Winter 1984
De Braybrook family- see photocopy in De Braybrooks of Colmworth from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1968
*Safford family: Colmworth residents 1791
Letter re: Colmworth estate 1937
! Victor Stringer and Family biographical details (see also WW2)
! The English Civil War & Colmworth; Text and 4 photos of tombs of the Dyer family
Richard Lack/Colmworth Home Guard – see WW2
*Colgrave Family – photos and notes compiled by Judith Parr up to 31/8/2008
Colmworth Footpath Voluntary Group BOX 21
2 folders of assorted material including some periodicals covering period 1993- 1998 and some correspondence and minutes from 2002/2003
See also Colmworth general re- rural action + footpaths action pack
Colmworth Parish Plan 2010 BOX 21
Colmworth: General BOX 07
! Ancient Greens – Green Lane information
See Walks, North Bedfordshire
Domesday entry for Colmworth
*Entries re: Colmworth in Beds. Mercury 1883, 1884, 1889
Entry from Kelly’s Directory, 1937
Colmworth –see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Winter 1959-60
Colmworth-see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1968
Colmworth/Bolnhurst 1846-photocopy from Bedford Times 26/10/1846
Frankpledges 1583-1612
Entry re: village/church families (date +source unknown)
Colmworth Archaeological dig 10/1997 artefacts
Colmworth Home Guard see WW2
Colmworth and the Great War see WW1
History of Colmworth (Handwritten) by W Stapleton
Funeral Service Sheets for Richard Lack and Ivan Lawson 2007
Colmworth; German Bomber Oct 1940 see WW2
Colmworth; People Buildings 1977-1985
Colmworth Country Park
Article on Colmworth- see Beds Mag photocopy winter 1959/60
Victorian history ; Colmworth place names & their meanings (for use with maps)
Colmworth ; weights & measures 1856
Colmworth ; village plan of activities / facilities
Footpaths action pack ; Countryside Commission (see also Colmworth maps) BOX 20
Rural action folder BOX 20
Colmworth Parish Paths – Circular Walk Leaflet
Sunday Times Article – 27/1/2008 ‘The 20 Top Most Sought-After Villages in England’ (includes Colmworth)
Transcription of Medieval Documents from 14 & 15th Centuries by Kevin Ward, County Archivist
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Events in Colmworth 3/6/2012 BOX 17
“ “ Diamond Jubilee Book Mark BOX 17
See Colmworth Church for Diamond Jubilee Service
Colmworth Listed Buildings BOX 07
Prigmore’s Golf Course – newspaper articles BOX 07
History Trail and related material – 7/6/2013
Colmworth Houses
Colmworth e.g.s.(2copies)
*How to research the history of a house in Bedfordshire (Archive+Records service publication)
*Using written archives to discover the history of your house by Nick Barratt
*Preparing a research plan from Tracing the history of your house by Nick Barratt
See also:-article in St. Neots local history magazine re:-Investigating an old house
*5 sets of papers relating to local history research of houses
Colmworth Inhabitants BOX 09
Local artist: Thelma Marks- from Luton News 28/3/1998
Obituary Anne Church died 6/10/2003
Article re: Charles + Edward Allen
Ellison brothers; photograph and letter
Ron Brightman & John Pell; conversations 13/4/2005 cassette
Mary & Ivor Carr; conversations 26/01/03 cassette
Funeral Service (4/3/2010) for Ron Brightman 19/9/24 – 17/2/2010
Patricia Ball, Postmistress – Retirement after 30 years (see Colmworth Chronicle Sept. 2009)
Albert Morris – see article under St. Denys Church
Obituary – Adelaide Allen (Rector’s wife)
Auschwitz - Why it Happened? – Play written and performed by Michael Prior, Programme
Folder with information/interviews with local residents
*Colmworth: Maps
(*All maps are now in display/easier access boxes)
Map showing Colmworth Church 1624
Map of Colmworth and area 1765
Map of Colmworth and area 1826
Map of Colmworth showing land ownership date?
Map of Colmworth-detailed 1856
2maps of Lordship Farm 1763
Map of Colmworth –date?
Map of Colmworth showing fields 1763
Map of Colmworth showing fields-1838?
Colmworth Manor maps
! Maps of Colmworth & surrounding villages by Thelma Marks –
! Bedford North OS Map pathfinder 1002; Colmworth –
! Maps of Colmworth & North Beds, 3 maps and texts (2 maps dated 1835)
! The fields of the Parish of Colmworth following enclosure in 1838 –
! The fields of the Parish of Colmworth – pre enclosure 1838 –
Place names and their meanings -
! Pathfinder O.S. map Colmworth 1989
Village map not to scale 2008 - 7 items
O.S. map with proposed A1 bypass
Map of Bedfordshire with Colmworth
O.S. Sheet 52 ; proposed new boundary Little Staughton
O.S. Map Colmworth / Thurleigh 1959
Colmworth, detailed map
Map 1964 ; footpaths / bridleways (see also Colmworth footpaths)
O.S. Survey map 1960
Colmworth award map
Colmworth old field names (1) + (2)
Colmworth before enclosure pre-1838
Channels End ; sale map 1892
Maps for Local History – A list of some useful books BOX 07
Colmworth + Neighbours’ History Society BOX 15
Colmworth & Neighbours History Society Journal Issue 1 BOX 09
Also cross-reference PERIODICALS; general – see Colmworth & Neighbours History Society for Journal issue 1. BOX 09
CD - Photographs of Colmworth
Floppy – Interview form
Newsletters 2003,2004,2005.
Quiz sheet: Colmworth local history trail 7/6/2003(2 copies)
Programme 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014
Medieval supper 2004
Leaflet 2010
*4 photographs taken at the Medieval supper 2004
Sixth Wife programme + notes and artwork
Introductory leaflets
Resources re:talks e,g. English Heritage; speaker 2005 card with contact number
Bedford Heritage month 9/2004 includes Life in medieval Colmworth talk
e.g. Honeydon: map see Honeydon –talk given 17/1/2003
e.g. Rushcraft: Felicity Irons see Rushcraft talk given 11/2003
re: visits e.g. The Manor; Hemingford Grey- see Hemingford Grey visit 3/4/2003
e.g. Bedford Auction centre; review –
Russian at Heart, Sonechka’s Story – leaflet 9/10/2013
Shakespeare Ladies Club – 2 posters 20/10/2006
Origins of Arab/Israeli Conflict (notes on talk given at CNHS)BOX 10
Medieval Banquet at St. Denys 25/9/2004
Local History on the Internet – Workshop 12/9/2007 BOX 09
Domesday book: Bedfordshire BOX 10
Conference 17/6/2006: Talk by John Hutchings CD
A music banquet at Chicksands Priory 1/7/2006: Programme
The Shakespeare Ladies Club; Tales of Georgian London; Leaflet 26th Oct 2006
*Life at the Medieval Edge – A Walk around Ravensden, Thurleigh and Bolnhurst, Aug. 2009
Talk by Barry Tomlinson ‘Air War over the Western Front WW1 given 18/05/2012 BOX 09
Barbeque 2002
Richard III Talk – several items, 21/3/2014,
Letter of Oliver Cromwell to Valentine Wauton 1644
Colmworth & Neighbours History Society ACCOUNTS 2002-2012
Correspondence re. talks BOX 9
Colmworth & Neighbours History Society BOX 16
The Secretary’s ‘Working Files’ (BOX 16)
• MINUTES – Nov. 2001 – June 2008 (inc. notes on inaugural meeting held 11 Jan 2002)
(In Turquoise Lever Arch File)
• GENERAL FILE – Aug. 2003 – Dec 2006 (inc. everything eg membership lists, activities, programmes, minutes and reports for the Colmworth Chronicle. (In Purple Lever Arch File)
• GREEN BOX FILE – CNHS Hosting of the BLHA Conference in June 1996 – everything.
• GENERAL FILE – 2002-2003 (includes ‘The beginning’ of the Society) (In Blue L/A File)
• Speakers, Outings and Correspondence 2006
• Speakers 2007
• York Trip Folder 2009
Colmworth & Neighbours History Society: History Research Group 2005 onwards BOX 09
Research proposals and Notes of meetings
Colmworth School Archives stored at Bedford and Luton Archives Service
Staff Details 1966-1991
*Collection of photographs secured by a rubber band
*Folder of photographs (named) collected by Audrey Henderson
*3 red boxed folders of photographs
Colmworth School Group photos (boxed) which includes 1919 school photograph
4 A4 size files of named photos
1 Box file of unnamed photos
1 Box file of grouped and dated photos
Note: re: photographs- Many of the photographs are undated + identities are unknown
! School research; including photographs, stats, charter
! Church School enquiry 1846/7
School reports 1920/1930- sensitive material
Report by H.M.Inspectors Feb/April 1962, and June 1952
Names of children in Class 2 January 1940
Parent/teacher association records (folder)
Plans of school 1969
Miscellaneous information
Colmworth School; Indenture 8th Jan 1841
! Colmworth school - general
Plan of drainage 1940
Article in Bedfordshire Times & Citizen 16/9/2010
Memories of Evelyn and Ken Huckle of Cherry Orchard Farm 1930’s (also includes memories of shops and tradesmen of the 1930’s)
Copies of School Registers from 1900-1912 ]
Evacuee Register World War II 1939-1946 ] together in one envelope
Public Record Office Kew – Search Information + Elementary and Secondary Schools
Information on other schools, eg Hitchin, Cardington
Information on 1966 Colmworth School, building and layout
Information on old C. School 1884, dimensions
Old School drawings by Hector Colgrave (1930’s)
Old School layout 1904
Martha Topham – schoolteacher at Old School, folder
Log Book and extracts, plus research folder
Green folder on Head Teachers at Old School
Folder on A.S. Briggs (Head) and other material on Old School (sons killed in WW1)
Folder on 1966 school including leaving cards for Jeanne Rainford
ADDITIONAL BOX ON COLMWORTH SCHOOL BOX 27
Sketch of pre-1966 school by Thelma Marks
Colmworth Ventures BOXES 21 & 22
Colmworth Chronicle, photo and distribution plan 1986-1987
Village Hall and Sign- see also Colmworth; General for people/buildings 1977-1995 photos
Colmworth Parish Plan 2010 (in 2 archive boxes): BOX 21 includes everything eg questionnaires, Parish Plan booklets, minutes etc. ! Large plastic folder containing P.P. display material.
Colmworth Village Hall BOX 8
Colmworth Village Hall Committee; Chairman’s Report May 2015
NEIGHBOURING TOWNS AND VILLAGES BOX 05
Bedford
C.D. King Offa and Bedford
St. Marys church; Bedford; booklet
Bedford; guided walks 2003;leaflets
Bedford; miscellaneous information, including timetable of trains serving Bedfordshire area 1883?
The Siege of Bedford Castle; Booklet BOX 03
Bedford 50 years ago by Victor Farrar see books in library BOX 10
Booklet – Pageant of Bedford 27/6/1966 – 2/7/1966
Bedford Street Names; folder BOX 05 or BOX 03
Megolithic origins of Bedford; article BOX 05 or BOX 03
Kimbolton Road - Folder
Bedfordshire
Map 1086 (Doomsday) – see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1995
Environment Agency the Ouse washes; folder
! Rural Nth Beds 1901 census study maps of
! Brick/tile works workman
! Male labourers and the gentry
! Divisions of Nth Beds
! The leather trade and railway workers
! Bedforshire Times re weights and measures 27/9/1856
! Episcopal visitations in Beds 1706 to 1720 re Bolnhurst & Colmworth 1706, 1717, 1720
! Recognising Medieval woodland
! Recognising greens and commons
! Ancient and T junction boundaries
Kelly Directory C.D. – Bedfordshire 1890
Post Office Directory C.D. Bedfordshire 1877
A Walk Around Historic Churches Leaflet
Open Sunday at Bedfordshire Parish Churches 26/6/2011 – Booklet
Bedfordshire Artist – David Green b. 1935 d. 2013 BOX 05
How to make a pilgrimage without leaving home (Article on Walks of John Bunyan in Bedfordshire) BOX 05
TITLEY, Anne Seymour: A Wayfarer in Bedfordshire; pub.1980 BOX 05
Bunyan’s Bedfordshire; a progress by bicycle BOX 05
MEADOWS, Eric G: A Bedfordshire Quiz Book; pub.1998 BOX 05
Bedfordshire Churches
Church Trails: Toddington & Northern Parishes (leaflet) }
Historic Churches in South Bedfordshire (leaflet) } BOX 05
Bolnhurst
Census: 1841, 1851, 1861,1871,1881 1891,1901 (All available to download from website) BOX 05
! School; origins and charter
History of Bolnhurst by W Stapleton – handwritten
Bolnhurst school logbooks 5 1885-1930 plus 1931-1950
! Chronological table of major events in the life of the school and schoolhouse
! History on my doorstep 2 photos 2007 & 1920
! 1904 rating survey for Bolnhurst school
! Children of Bolnhurst school pre 1920 photo
! The description of our village
! Bolnhurst rector – The Reverend John Jones 1700-1770
! Episcopal visitations in Bedfordshire 1706 – 1770 Bolnhurst / Colmworth
Mavourn Farm, Bolnhurst – see CNHS Walk 2009, August.
Bushmead; buildings
Gery Arms- Bushmead- public house- photograph
Bushmead Priory- photographs
The Wheatsheaf two drawings
Bushmead Priory; menus 1795-1796
! Map of Priory and Manor of Bushmead 1624
! Bushmead Priory photos 7 and text
! Analysis of Bushmead Estate map
Bushmead Priory menus 1796-1823
Bushmead Priory; memories of the Priory – text
Bushmead Priory before demolition gifted by Alan Woodwood
Bushmead estate 1624 map
Eaton Socon + Eaton Ford
See War history: The Eatons at war
Roads – see Inn roads into Eaton Socon – photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1950
Jarrett, Sue – Medieval Mishaps and Mayhem in Eaton Socon Parish. (Booklet)
Harlington
Harlington Heritage Trust Newsletter June,Sept,Dec 2005 , march, June 2006, Sept, Dec 2010, March, June 2011
Harlington Heritage Trust Book BOX 11
Hemingford Grey
Map
The Manor; Hemingford Grey (leaflet)
Honeydon
Tithe Farm, Honeydon – see St. Neots local history magazine Summer 1995
Map
Houghton House
Photograph with Bedfordshire Rifle Volunteers 1869
Pack of maps
Houghton Conquest
HOUFE, Simon: A Victorian Family at Houghton Conquest 1838-78, pub.2004 (includes BURGON, J.W.: Houghton Conquest, written 1874) BOX 5
Kempston
Historical Landscape and Archaeology BOX 5
Keysoe
See Walks, North Bedfordshire
Censuses – 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 (all available to download from website)
! St Marys church; 2 photos plus inscription plus text
Village Voice Jan to March 2007
Village Voice, August 2004, War Memorial
Village Voice Oct 2012 (2 issues). 2011, June, Sept, Oct, Nov. 2013 – July, Sept. Oct. Nov. 2014 – January, Feb, March.
Bolnhurst and Keysoe Parish Newsletter, October 2013 BOX 05
Little Barford
Information in envelope BOX 5
Little Staughton
Census: 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891,1901 (All available to download from website)
See Walks, Bedfordshire
Gravestones; research (list now available as a download)
! Little Staughton; origins, pathfinders (WW2)
Bedfordshire Family History Society Monumental Inscriptions of the Baptist Chapel, Little Staughton – surveyed 1980 + 2011 BOX 05
Little & Great Paxton
St James’ Church, Little Paxton – History and Architecture
Philip Dickinson – Booklet on Great Paxton BOX 05
Holy Trinity, Great Paxton – Plans and Notes
Oakley
Parish church; booklet
Domesday book entry (also other villages)
Brief history of Oakley
Ravensden BOXES 25 - 26
Census: 1841,1851,1861,1871,1881,1891,1901 (all available to download from website)
Tax Lists
Sports day 2000: photograph
! Ravensden Baptist church 2004; photo
! Ravensden church 2004; photo
! Brickworkers at Cleat Hill, Ravensden 1905
Tilwick – deserted hamlet. See CNHS Walk, 2009, August.
The Ian Freeman Archive - in 2 Archive boxes (to be sorted)
The Wagstaffe Family of Ravensden 1200-1809
Manor Farm, Wood End + photos
Blue Folder – miscellaneous information
Church information
Footpaths + register of footpaths
Maps, miscellaneous information
Roads and Bridges in Ravensden and other villages
Black book with notes on Ravensden and adjoining villages
Grey folder – Ravensden and adjoining villages
Box of field names
Three Boxes of Ravensden slides
Renhold
! All Saints church; photo, painting and text
All Saints church; photo 2006
! Howbury Hall; 2 pictures of early and late building
All Saints church 1 photo
List of Field Names BOX 05
Riseley
Riseley Historical Constitution 2000
Roxton
Roxton village; history of a North Bedfordshire village
Roxton Parish Magazine June 1962 incl. Gt. Barford, Wilden and Ravensden BOX 05
St. Neots and Eynesbury
History and library guide
Leaflet – Local History Month 2011
St Neots Local History Magazine
- Spring 1996 including article by Rosa Young on Investigating an old house
- Summer 1996
- Summer 1995 including an article by David Bushby on Tithe Farm, Honeydon.
- Spring 2005.
St Neots, Eynesbury and the Eatons (Leaflet Published by St. Neots Community Archive Group)
The Lost Priory of St. Neot (Leaflet)
St. Neots Cycle Map (Leaflet) BOX 5
Walks: see Walks - St Neots
Thurleigh
ACT for Enclosing lands 1805 BOX 05
Wilden
Census: 1891, 1901 (available to download from website)
See Walks, North Bedfordshire
Maps: pre 1817 and modern
History of the parish of Wilden by Mike Rider 1995
Lionsfield House – see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Summer 1995
Stained glass at church – see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Autumn 1968
Wyboston
3 photographs of garage
Yelden
See Walks, North Bedfordshire
Yelden past and present
Wrest Park and Orangery
Wrest Park and Orangery – see newsletter Bedfordshire local history association Summer 2000
TOPICS & THEMES:
Archaeology
Bedford archaeological and local history newsletters 1997,and1998
Albion archaeology – annual review 2000- 2001, 2001- 2002
Bedfordshire county archaeological service – annual review 1998- 1999, 1999-2000
A highway to the past(ancient landscapes under the Bedford Southern bypass)
See also Roman history
Bignor Roman villa
Colmworth crop markings/ Roman villa; aerial photographs
Colmworth Archaeological dig 10/1997: artefacts
Items from WW2 found in Colmworth see WW2
Flag Fen – Britain’s Bronze Age Centre (Newsletter, Feb. 2008) BOX 06
Archive presentation and display
Sourcebook 2002/ 2003
Leaflet
Archive C.D. Books: letter
Archive Research
Notes on archive research
Dovecotes; Bedfordshire
Dovecotes – see Dovecotes and pigeons of Bedfordshire – see photocopy from Bedfordshire Magazine Winter 1995
English Parish Churches
Willson, Roger – The Tradition of the Church is Change; Changing Liturgy and the Use of Space in English Parish Churches from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century (Talk to CNHS 2009) BOX 09
Mills
! Local mills; Keysoe, Thurleigh, Bolnhurst, Riseley, Duloe, photos and text
! Colmworth Mill; photos, map and text
Windmill Research 2005-2009 by June Colgrave and Beverley Brown. Includes: Duloe, Thurleigh, Colmworth, Bolnhurst, Keysoe and Riseley. Including information on millers.
National Lottery Community Fund regional offices
List of offices
National Trust properties
Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire: leaflets
Houghton Mill: booklet – both in a pack
Public Houses
Gery Arms- Bushmead- public house- photograph- see Bushmead: buildings
Gery Arms – Sale Notice
Sale of Swan public house- 1830- poster- see Colmworth buildings
Brewery, Day & Son St. Neots. Sale Notice 20/11/1919
The Beehive, Colesden – Sale Notice
The Wheatsheaf Inn, Colmworth – Sale Notice
The Jolly Ploughboys, Chawston – Sale Notice
Record Offices
Information from the House of Lords record office
Public record office: London
Roman history
Bignor Roman villa
See also Colmworth crop markings/Roman villa; aerial photographs
Rushcraft
Rushcraft: Felicity Irons: leaflet
Walks – Bedfordshire BOX05
John Bunyan Trail Section 1: leaflet (45 mile walk)
John Bunyan Trail Section 2: leaflet (25 mile walk)
Walks – North Bedfordshire
Hidden Britain leaflets:
1. North Bedfordshire Wolds
2. Ancient Walks Upper Dean to Swineshead
3. John Bunyan Triangle Walk and Donkey Walk, Keysoe
4. Little Staughton
5. Bedford, Brickhill to Thurleigh
6. Bedford, Putnoe to Wilden
7. Yelden to Melchbourne
8. Colmworth
9. Rides in the Wolds; Three Routes for Riders off Road Cyclists and Walkers
10. A Walk Around Historic Churches
Triple triangle walk: Keysoe – leaflet BOX05
Walks – St Neots BOX 05
St Neots: town trail - leaflet
War history BOX 05
Napoleonic war
Lectures on Napoleonic prisoners of war
Naval officers/administrators prior to 1815 researched by Dr David Davies
World War 1 BOX 06
Bedfordshire+Luton archives+record service newsletter Dec.1998; sources re: W.W.1.
The Eatons at War (covers W.W.1 +W.W.2.,and mentions Honeydon in W.W.2)
! Colmworth & The Great War 1914-1918 with 2 photos of memorials and text
FULLER, Steven: 1st Bedfordshires; pt.1. Mons to the Somme; pub.2011 (book)
DEACON, M.G. ed: The Shiny Seventh; 7th Service Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at war 1915-1918; pub.2004 (book)
World War 2 BOX 06
Twinwoods Airfield + control tower; leaflet
Ministry of Food poster/ rationing
Norman Cross leaflet appeal- leaflet
Bedford W.W.2 airfield trail
Colmworth prisoners of war; research BOX 7
Bedford Record 8/10/1940 – End of a raider and Caring for refugees
See also B.B.C. Your Families War history re: W.W.2. in Periodicals; general
! Victor Stringer – photos of memorial plaque in St Denys Church
! Colmworth Home Guard 1940 photo
! Little Staughton; origins Pathfinders WW2
! The Home Guard in Colmworth 3 photos and text
! The Home Guard in Colmworth key to names in photo
Items from WW2 found in Colmworth
! Colmworth; German bomber Oct 1940 photo
! Richard Lack; Colmworth Home Guard photo 1940
! 1940 Colmworth Home Guard marching in Channels End photo
! 1940 Colmworth Home Guard on parade photo
! James Winstanley research WW2 P.O.W. camp Colmworth
! I.C.O. with photos – crashed bomber plane
Colmworth references at Kew National Archives, including refs. to POW camps and Colmworth School.
Book – Lilly Cooper ‘A Little London Evacuee’ pub. 2009 incl. chapter on Colmworth BOX 9
Book – Stephen Risby – Research on Italian POW Labour in Bedfordshire, Sept. 2007
Public Record Office, Kew – Prisoners of War in British Hands 1698-1949
POWs at Ducks Cross Camp – article/photo in Beds Times and Citizen 3/11/11 BOX 6
MALCOLMSON, Patricia and Robert ed.: A Soldier in Bedfordshire 1941-42; the diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers; pub.2009 (book) BOX 9
Gazette of 3rd, 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Nov.1945
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