BLHA member, Mr John Day, has spent the past five years developing a website containing old images of Ampthill where he lived for over 50 years. It’s a voluntary enterprise to reflect his interest in pictorial history and to keep …
Cleveland Street Workhouse saved
CLEVELAND STREET WORKHOUSE SAVED AND A NEW BOOK AND PLAQUE The extraordinary history of the Workhouse which has now been saved, and the four plus years of Charles Dickens’s life only a few doors away, has been researched and written…
Colmworth and Neighbours History Society 10th Birthday
JOURNAL To celebrate its tenth birthday Colmworth and Neighbours History Society has produced a journal featuring the special history of rural communities. It covers a wide range of subjects from short examples of oral history to larger pieces concerning an…
Willington and the Russells
Willington Local History Group is offering a new book, Willington and the Russells by Chairman, Robert Bollington. It tells the story of Willington from 1774 to 1902 when it formed part of the Duke of Bedford’s Estates. It takes us…
Romany Families in South East England
RESEARCH Romany Families in South East England I am carrying out postgraduate research into Romany families in South East England. One extended kinship group bearing the interchangeable surnames Draper/Parker & Loveridge seem to be associated with Ampthill and the surrounding…