In 1747 William Kilpin set up his ironmongers shop at 17 High Street, Bedford. His workshop and warehouse were just around the corner in Castle Lane. For the next 180 years, six generations of the...
In the autumn of 1994 there was much debate in the pages of the “Bedfordshire on Sunday” newspaper about whether an unusual burial should be allowed at Foster Hill Road Cemetery. Depending on your point...
Edward Richard Cumberland Wilcox was born on the 3rd October 1830 in Lucknow in Bengal, India. His christening took place on the 14th November 1830 in Benares (also known as Banaras) in West Bengal. He...
The news reached Bedford on Saturday evening the 6th April 1912, of a fatal accident to Mr Frank Howe, and spread deep consternation and grief amidst a very wide circle of relatives and intimate acquaintances,...
The Bedfordshire Times and Independent, Saturday, 26 August, 1882 page 6 reported as follows: ‘An inquest was held at the Ship Inn, St. Cuthbert’s, on Tuesday morning, before Mr. Mark Whyley, Deputy Coroner, on the body...
James William Seamark was born and raised in poverty and denied a higher education. He spent a great part of his life in the service of the public; having served as a Justice of the...
The Bedfordshire Times and Independent, Saturday 17 April 1880 reported as follows: ‘On Monday afternoon the borough coroner (Dr. Prior) held an enquiry at the Angel Inn, Cauldwell-street, Bedford, into the circumstances attending the...
Albert Willie Gregory Prosser was born in 1870 at Luton, Bedfordshire. He was one of the four children of John Gregory Prosser, and his wife Phebe, nee Cannon Field (1842-1878). John was a carpenter, joiner...
Brickhill House was the farmhouse to Brickhill Farm that once stood over the brow of Cemetery Hill. When John Foster and his family lived there in the early 1800s, there were beautiful groves, lawns and...
Dr. Charles Edward Prior was the Coroner of the Borough of Bedford. He was a Public Analyst and the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough and of several Sanitary Authorities, including Bedford, Ampthill, Biggleswade...