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Bedfordshire Privies, Denis Bidwell - A light-hearted look at the loos of yesteryear with a little bit of history and a lot of anecdotes. Fully illustrated.  Price £3.95

Bedfordshire Privies


Bedfordshire Villages, Denis Bidwell -
A portrait, in full colour, of Bedfordshire's villages with short histories, anecdotes, stories, legends, people and events which make each one unique. Price £5.95


Tales of Old Bedfordshire (Tales S.), Adrian Gray -
Twenty-three stories from the county's past including the Luton Peace Riot, Wonderful Water from Flitwick, Royalty and Romance and the A6 murder. Illustrated. Price  £6.95

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Francis Frith's Bedfordshire - Approximately 150 detailed period photographs from The Francis Frith Collection with extended captions and full introduction are presented in this volume. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers, it includes a voucher for a free mounted print of any photograph shown in the book. £7.69

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Haunted Places of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire- Rupert Matthew - This book is divided into four sections, covering the north and south parts of both Counties, with each one yielding up its fair share of ghosts, phantoms, spectres and poltergeists. Illustrated. Price £7.95

 

Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough - Pevsner - The varied architecture of this east Midland area ranges from the Norman glory of Peterborough cathedral and notable Early English churches to many fine Elizabethan and Jacobean mansions. The finest of these is Houghton House but the most spectacular is Burghley, of palatial proportions in a perfect landscape setting by Capability Brown. Southill and Woburn Abbey display the range and excellence of Georgian houses and landscaped gardens while Wrest Park and Luton Hoo look back to eighteenth-century French architecture from opposite ends of the nineteenth-century. More recently, Whipsnade Zoo exemplifies fine work of the 1930s by Berthold Lubetkin. Price £19.95