Leighton buzzard

This week I've decided it's time to post another installment of our trip to England in 1999. Last year, I wrote about London , The Bellows ...

There was a building on this site that was a Market Toll house, which was a timbered build that had open arcades on the ground floor. It had a clock tower and a bell was used to summon the locals where anouncements were read and meetings attended. This building also served as a school for a short time. A newer brick building was erected here in 1851 at a cost of £1,182.00 to the lord of the manor. The upper storey was used as a Town Hall and olso the County Court sat there. The lower foor…

The Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council Virtual Library

A wonderfull collection of historic photos of the Leighton Buzzard Railway when it was operating as an industrial railway and also the early days of preservation, taken from the Leighton Buzzard Railway Flickr group. It is fantastic that these shots have survived to today and are freely available for us to enjoy. I thank all who have uploaded these to Flickr and hope you do not mind me grouping these together. I wanted to put all the historic photos in one place for easy reference. This is…

Autumn colours at Leighton Buzzard church.

RAF Stanbridge housed the largest telephone exchange in the world in 1942 and thousands of teleprinters were installed to communicate with every theatre of war in Britain, Europe, Africa and the Far East. This was them in 1948 marching through Leighton Buzzard High Street...

All Saints Church in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England

Leighton Buzzard town centre on market day & the 50th anniversary of Leighton Linslade parish, 7 April 2015.

The Globe near Leighton Buzzard on the Grand Union -a really nice canalside pub