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| Jack Everett. | “Spicy Jack”, celebrated coachman on the roads to Dunstable. | Page 345 |
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| Jamaica | Samuel Queenborough, son of a Dunstable grocer, emigrated to Jamaica and became the owner of a sugar plantation, worked by nearly 250 slaves | Page 310 |
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| Japanese prisoners | | Page 407 |
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| Jardine | Three sons of William Jardine of Dunstable took up posts in the Indian judicidary. | Page 310 |
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| Jeffs | David. An obiturary of the schoolteacher David Jeffs. | Page 430 |
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| Kelly's Directory | for 1914 gives interesting lists of the businesses in Dunstable town centre at that time. | Page 16 |
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| Kensworth Parish Church. | Controversies over non-conformism. | Page 356 |
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| Kilminster | Queensway Hall appearances by Lemmie Kilminster, of Hawkwind and Motorhead fame. | Page 339. |
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| Kimich | Joseph Kimich was a clockmaker with a business in Dunstable. | Page 323. |
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| Kingsbury | A history of the buildings which include the Old Palce Lodge hotel. | Page 432 |
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| Kingsbury | The original farm buildings were converted into the Old Palace Lodge hotel and the Norman King pub. | Page 306 |
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| Kingsbury Palace. | Theories about its location. | Page 396 |
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| Kingsway | Memory of the ARP hut behind the Old Palace Lodge. | Page 444 |
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| Knight | - Frank. Pioneer photographer in Dunstable | Page 479 |
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| Kydd | Sam. Some wartime experience of an actor. | Page 387 |
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| Laburnum Villa | The search for the site of Laburnham Villa in Union Street, where a Roman coin was found. | Page 346 |
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| Larks | These birds once flocked in their thousands on Dunstable Downs where they were netted and cooked as a speciality in local hotels. Dunstable Larks became a famous delicacy - it was reported that about 50,000 were sent to London annually! | Page 6 and 111 |
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| Leading Ladies exhibition | Some of the Dunstable people featured are profiled on | Page 449 |
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| Legless Lal | The Dunstable character who raced his wooden cart, pulled by three foxhounds, against stagecoaches travelling down the Watling Street. | Page 336. |
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| Leighton Buazard Church | Its clock played the tune of the Dunstable Hunt. | Page 476 |
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| Levitt | Dorothy Levitt, a motoring pioneer in Edwardian times, was featured in a TV documentary partly filmed in Dunstable. | Page 221 |
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| Life and a Love | Bok of Dunstable memories by George Cleaver. | Page 330. |
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| Listed buildings in Dunstable | Their names are given. | Page 346 |
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| Literary and Scientific Society | | Page 354 |
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| Literary and Scientific Society. | Discover of presentation certificate created by F. A. Fowler. | Page 333. |
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| Little blue man of Studham Common | Did children see an extra-terrestrial visitor in their village in 1967? | Page 279 |
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| Lockhart | Coal business at Dunstable North railway station. | Page 364. |
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| Lomas | Lisa Lomas (nee Bellinger) represented the UK at table tennis in the Olympic Games of 1992 and 1996. | Page 311 |
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| Loring | Sir Nigel Loring, featured in Conan Doyle's book The White Company, was Lord of the Manor at Chalgrave. His possible Dunstable connection is described by Hugh Garrod | Page 110 |
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| Lovering | - Pat. Death of historian who ammased a large collection of photos of Houghton Regis. | Page 477 |
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| Lowdham Grange Borstal. | A historic march by prison officers and young prisoners, to focus attention on conditions for young offenders, passed through Dunstable in May 1930. | Page 292. |
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| Lunn | John Lunn, headmaster of Beecroft School and local historian, is remembered in an article | Page 184 |
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| Lynde | Thomas. Visit to Dunstable of descendants of Thomas Lynde, one of the original colonists in America. | Page 349. |
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| Lynde - | De La. Mystery of the Lynde family cemetery. | Page 490 |
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