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| ABC | Travel Guides - the Dunstable-based firm moves to Luton. | Page 265 |
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| Accident | Soldiers killed in mystery war-time road accident. | Page 379 |
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| AC-Delco's | 1930's facade is described by David Lindsey | Page 158 |
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| Adam Croft | The former Dunstable author is preparing a series of articles about lost pubs of Dunstable. | Page 276 |
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| Adeliza | Wife of King Henry I. | Page 428 |
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| Agincourt Hymn. | Music celebrating King Henry V's victory, composed by John Dunstable. | Page 468 |
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| Ainsbury | - David. Death of history researcher. | Page 485 |
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| Aircraft | The Dart Aircraft firm was based in Dunstable, and fuselage for the Mosquito fighter-bomber was also produced here. | Page 146 |
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| Aircraft factories. | Dart Aircraft, Grice and Young, Hawkridge Aircraft, Zander and Weyl, Scott Aircraft - these were all once based in Dunstable. | Page 282 |
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| Aldous | -Edwin. His matchstick model featured on tv's Repair Shop Programme. | Page 483 |
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| Allisons | 1960s pop duo at the Calfornia Ballroom | Page 332 |
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| Alma Theatre, Luton | Derek Roy, Max Wall, Julie Andrews. | page 483 |
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| Animals | Runaway bullocks, horses and cows. | Page 328 |
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| Annals of Dunstable | How the Annals were translated | Page 379 |
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| Annals of Dusntable Priory | Report on the launch of a new translation by David Preest. | Page 381 |
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| Argyll Terrace | This is the name of a terrace in Edward Street, the name of which has almost weathered away. | Page 308 |
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| Ashridge Monument. | Commemorating the Duke of Bridgewater, pioneer of canal building. | Page 360. |
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| Ashton Elementary Schools. | | Page 355. |
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| Atterton | Tom, organ builder | Page 412. |
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| Aubery Road | | Page 412. |
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| Bagshawe | Thomas Bagshawe from Dunstable survived a winter in the Antarctic in a hut improvised from the wreck of an abandoned ship. | Page 311 |
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| Bagshawe | Eliza Bagshawe, born in Paraguay, was married to the founder of the Bagshawe engineering company and mother of historian Thomas Bagshawe. | Page 424 |
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| Ball | Sir Alexander Ball, one of Nelson's “band of brothers” had a Dunstable connection. | Page 180 and310 |
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| Bands in the Dunstable area. | Tony Ward writes about his book, Strike Up The Band. | Page 101 |
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| Banks | The story of banks in Dunstable by David Fookes. | Page 390 |
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| Baptist Chruch | West Street, organ. | Page 412. |
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| Barret - Dora | Search for Information about the statue of Queen Eleanor sculpted by Dora Bennet. | Page 388 |
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| Barron Knights. | The death of Duke D'Mond, of Dunstable. | Page 229 |
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| Bassett's Bank. | The Quaker bank in Dunstable whcih survived the great crash of 1825. | Page 390 |
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| Bates | Maisie. Death of Maisie Bates and donation of tournament shield from Dunstable pageant to Weatherfield School. | Page 349 |
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| Bates | Kenneth. Search for his Totternhoe connections. | Page 404. |
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| Battle | in Dunstable in 1461 | Page 475 |
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| Bazaar | The splendour of a bazaar held in 1876 to raise money for the restoration of the Priory Church is lovingly described in an article republished in the society's newsletter. | Page 115 |
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| Beacon Avenue. | Timber for new houses came from war-time air-raid shelter. | Page 468 |
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| Beaumont | Councillor Sydney Beaumont ran the Highfields tea room in Dunstable. | Page 366 |
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| Beaumont's Tree. | This grew from a stake plunged through the body of a highwayman buried near Flitwick. | Page 303 |
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| Bedford Gaol | A visit in 1870 is described. | Page 122 |
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| Bedfordshire's First VC. | Captain William Peel, a hero of the Crimean War, died during the Indian mutiny. His house at Sandy is now the headquarters of the RSPB. | Page 286 |
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| Belize | The Rev Sylvester Fowler, a Methodist missionary from Dunstable, was killed in a cyclone in Belize | Page 311 |
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| Bells | Bell ringers and special peals at Priory Chruch. | Page 374 |
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| Ben Scott. | Details from a scrapbook about Ben Scott, Mayor of Dunstable in 1952, 1953 and 1954. | Page 291. |
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| Bennett's Memorial Recreation Ground trackway. | | Page 355. |
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| Benning | Brian Stuart. First World War pilot. | Page 356 |
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| Benning | Major Brian Stuart Benning killed in aeroplane accident. | Page 379 |
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| Bevin Boy's memories | | Page 90 |
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| Bibliography | Report on the digitilisation of the index of Bedfordshire publications. | Page 369 |
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| Bloomfield | Robert Bloomfield, author of the Maid of Dunstable. | Page 376 |
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| Blow's Downs. | An article by David Turner about the hills to the east of Dunstable, once known as Zouches Down but later named after a farmer there named John Blow | Page 320 |
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| Blow's Downs. | Information about the Blow family of Zouches Farm. | Page 335. |
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| Boatwright, Brenda | - Death of the councillor who helped save Priory House. | Page 493 |
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| Bomb at Whipsnade Zoo | | Page 412 |
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| Book Castle | Story of the building in Church Street. | Page 254 |
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| Book Castle | Shop's Closure | Page 261 |
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| Book Castle | Its cellar was a war-time air-raid shelter | Page 468 |
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| Boston | Body of wife of Lord Boston lies in state parlour of Red Lion | Page 394 |
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| Boudica | The army of Queen Boudica, after sacking St Albans, was defeated with enormous casualties by a Roman army led by General Paulinus. The site of the battlefield has never been discovered but it might have been at Dunstable, near what is now the Manshead campus. | Page 318 |
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| Bourne | David Bourne's memories of his childhood in Dunstable. | Page 228 |
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| Bourne | Founder member Colin Bourne's death reported. | Page 261 |
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| Bowes | Paul Bowes, owner of the Book Castle, is made the society's president. | Page 309 |
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| Bowes - Paul. | Bowes - Paul. New book by the history society's president, Paul Bowes, titled They Were There When…, suggesting eye-witness accounts of people who feature in the New Testament | Page 468 |
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| Boys on the run | Five little boys, who had been detained at Dunstable police station for stealing, managed to escape and led the local police on a prolonged chase, much to the amusement of the town. | Page 291 |
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| Brewers Hill Battle. | A famous controversy over access through Brewers Hill in 1890 and 1891, which culminated in a huge demonstration by around five and six thousand people. | Page 26 |
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| Britain Street School | A 1960 photo of masters at the Dunstable school. | Page 324 |
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| Britannia Inn | Stories about the Middle Row pub. | Page 268 |
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| Britannia Inn. | The vanished pub in Middle Row, Dunstable, is the subject of further stories, including descriptions of the great fire there in 1893. | Page 284 |
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| Brooklyn Villa, Houghton Regis | | Page 380 |
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| Brough | Ruby Brough's story of tough times in Dunstable in the 1930s and how the Salvation Army came to her rescue. | Page 236 |
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| Buck | Anne Buck, world-renowned authority on textiles and the history of cosutme design. | Page 403. |
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| Buckle's menswear shop. | Report on memorabilia there | Page 212 |
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| Budd | - John. Pioneering Dunstable Photographer. | Page 466 |
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| Canal | The unsuccessful plan to build a branch waterway from Dunstable to the Grand Junction canal. | Page 361 |
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| Cardington airships | The R101 was among the airships built in the huge hangars at Cardington. | Page 60 |
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| Cathedral | Henry VIII at one time intended to create a cathedral on the site of Dunstable Priory. | Page 224 |
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| Catherine's Walk | A path in Priory Gardens. | Page 428 |
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| Cavendish | Sir George Cavendish, a wealthy resident of Dunstable in the 16th century, wrote a biography of Cardinal Wolsey. | Page 116 |
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| Cavendish | George. The Dunstable connections of the biographer of Cardinal Wolsey. | Page 432 |
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| Cemetery | The first person to be buried there, in 1861. | Page 392. |
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| Cemetery at West Street | Details of all the inscriptions on gravestones and monuments at Dunstable Cemetery have been recorded by a team of volunteers. | Page 304 |
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| Central Café | Famous visitors to this cafe started by Tom Geary in High Street North included racing driver Prince Bira and the Ivy Benson Ladies Dance Band. | Page 44, 45and47 |
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| Chamber of Trade. | List of its presidents. | Page 217 |
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| Champkin | Arthur. Man wo was always in trouble with the law in Victorian times. | Page 326 |
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| Chess | - Ancient red-tinted chessmen at Harlington and Lewis. | Page 492 |
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| Chestnuts | The bungalow in Friars Walk whose gardens were the venue for many town events. | Page 462 |
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| Chew | William Chew left a fortune which was used for various charitable projects in Dunstable. | Page 307 |
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| Chew's Charity School. | Chew's Charity School in Dunstable was named after a wealthy distiller named Thomas Chew. | Page 323 |
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| Chew's Charity School. | Details about George Griffin, the last master at Chew's School. | Page 344 |
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| Chew's Charity School. | Story about John Gresham, one of the school's masters. | Page 264 |
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| Chew's House | home of the charity school between 1715 and 1880. | Page 307 |
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| Chez Jerome | History of Building. | Page 380 |
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| Chimes | Tune called The Dunstable Hunt in church clock. | Page 380 |
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| Chronicle | Dunstable's first newspaper. | Page 400. |
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| Churchyard in 1903 | He is the subject of an article. | Page 130 |
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| Civil War | Its affect on Dunstable | Page 476 |
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| Clark Brothers | Steve and Jimmy, whose tap-dancing act achieved world-wide fame, settled in Dunstable on retirement. | Page 364. |
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| Clarke | - Harry. Pioneering photographer in Dunstable. | Page 471 |
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| Cleaver | George. Excerpts from his book of Dunstable memories. | Page 330 |
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| Coat of Arms | -Theories about the origins of Dunstable's symbol. | page 470 |
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| Coat of Arms | More informaiton on Dunstable's coat of arms. | Page 478 |
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| Cock fighting. | Mention of these being held at the White Hart. | Page 327 |
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| Cogswell | whiting works. | Page 355 |
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| Collegiate School | Early educational establishment in Dunstable. | Page 362 |
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| Collings | Thomas George Collings was a clockmaker based in Dunstable in the 1800s. | Page 323 |
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| Collins, George Eric | - pioneer glider pilot. | Page 498 |
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| Cook | - William Thomas. Ingenious inventor whose home in Dunstable was the venue for many town events. | Page 463 |
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| Cookery | 1881 lessons in cookery at town hall. | Page 380 |
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| Cooper | Ken. Death of the Luton historian. | Page 435 |
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| Cooper | Albert William. Pioneer Dunstable photographer. | page 489 |
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| Cornerstone | Search for origin of name of local printing company. | Page 468 |
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| County Record Office | Dr G.H. Fowler established this in 1913. The archives service for Bedfordshire and Luton. | Page 290. |
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| Cox | The best-selling novelist Josephine Cox spent part of her early life in Dunstable. | Page 427 |
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| Crouch | Robert Crouch, alias "Bob the Butcher" of Dunstable, was one of 29 people executed at Tyburn on May 20 1728. | Page 266 |
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| Crown Inn | - luxurious pub in the 16th century. | Page 499 |
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| Cruikshank | George. Artist's local marriage and visits to Dunstable. | Page 403. |
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| Cultural Consortium. | Efforts to crete future interest in Dunstable’s history. | Page 485 |
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| Curran | Joan. Death of the local historian and founder member of the history society. | Page 443 |
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| Currency Close | Origin of the name. | Page 371. |
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| Czechoslovak War-time Radio Station at Hockliffe. | | Page 175 |
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