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| Sally the Dunstable Witch | Rita Swift researched the origins of the satirical poem featuring Sally in an article | Page 124 |
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| Salvation Army. | How the Army came to Dunstable. | Page 492 |
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| Sanders | Francis Sanders was transported as a convict to Australia in 1831. | Page 321. |
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| Saracen's Head | The theft of a Christmas pudding in 1874 caused a great commotion. | Page 326 |
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| Saracen's Head | Old building alongside built by Humphrey Daniel. | Page 353 |
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| Saracen's Head. | This inn has not always stood on its present site. Joan Curran investigates in an article | Page 141 and Page 179 |
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| Schools | A list of Dunstable schools' opening dates | Page 128 |
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| Scott | Joseph. Former Chew's Charity School boy. | Page 352 |
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| Scott and Zander | Memories of pilot Amy Johnson's visit to the glider factory in Dunstable. | Page 276 |
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| Searles | - Daniel and Robert. Two brothers, one a Governor of Barbados and the other a notorious buccaneer. | Page 451 |
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| Selby - | Captain. Founder of the Salvation Army in Dunstable. | Page 492 |
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| Shaw - | Harold. Architect who designed Oakwell Park. | Page 492 |
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| Shepherd | Artist George Sidney Shepherd painted many views of the Dunstable area, including one of Dunstable Downs dated 1813. | Page 274 |
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| Shipwreck | George William Welch, who drowned when the SS Stella was wrecked in 1899, is named on a memorial in Dunstable Cemetery. | Page 233 |
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| Signalling station on Dunstable Downs | This was the subject of a painting by George Shepherd in 1819, five years after it was demolished. Omer Roucoux describes the telegraph system | Page 132 |
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| Silversmiths | Huguenot family living at Tingrith Manor. | Page 375. |
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| Sinfield | Alan Sinfield's memories of his childhood in Dunstable | Page 228 |
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| Singapore | George Frederick Hose, from Dunstable, became Bishop of Singapore | Page 311 |
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| Sleigh | Daniel Sleigh, osler at the Sugar Loaf, Dunstable. | Page 337 |
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| Smith | Worthington G. Smith's architectural illustrations. | Page 369. |
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| Smith - Worthington George | An appreciation of the Dunstable archaeologist on the centenary of his death. | Page 358 and Page 363 |
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| Snowstorm | Railway passengers stranded in 1881 blizzard. | Page 331 |
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| Soliders killed in High Street | | Page 395. |
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| South Beds Farm Produce Company | of Victoria Street. Picture of company van. | Page 331 |
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| St Augustine's | Details of the forerunner of the Downside Church. | Page 366 |
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| St Fremund | The legend of the saint whose remains were visited by pilgrims to Dunstable. | Page 431 |
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| St Luke's School, London | Children from St Luke's were evacuated to Dunstable during the Second World War. | Page 275 |
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| St Mary's Street | is one of the roads in the south-west quadrant of Dunstable town centre which was substantially rebuilt between 1960 and 1970. There is a feature on the lost streets and street names | Page 10 |
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| Stafteis | Name of a vanished square in Hocklifee. | Page 372 |
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| Stag hunting | “An exciting morning” was reported in the Dunstable Chronicle of 1859 when hunters chased a stag through the streets of Dunstable. | Page 19 |
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| Stagecoaches | Anecdotes about a famous coach driver, Jack Everett. | Page 345 |
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| Stagecoaches | Stories about Dunstable coaching inns and characters. | Page 336. |
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| Staples | - William Household. Pioneering Dunstable photographer. | Page 466 |
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| Stevens | A report on the death of Bernard Stevens, president of the history society and a local magistrate and Rotarian, The famous medieval Swan Jewel, now in the British Museum, was found on his land. | Page 301 |
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| Storm | A thunderstorm caused particularly heavy flooding in Dunstable in July 1893. | Page 215 |
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| Stott | Bert Stott founded a well-known furnishing store in Dunstable. | Page 401. |
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| Strange | -Herbert. Pioneer photographer in Dunstable. | Page 480 |
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| Straw bonnet | sewing gave employment in hundreds of homes in Dunstable. But it was a hard life. | Page 138 |
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| Street Directories | -Changes to street numbers in Dunstable. | Page 425 |
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| Street directories | Interesting excerpts from lists of street names and residents from the society's collection. | Page 206 |
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| Strike Up The Band | Book about music in Dunstable. | Page 363. |
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| Stubbs | Una. Dunstable girl in tv's Cool For Cats. | Page 452. |
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| Sugar Load | Photo 1892 | Page 472 |
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| Sugar Loaf Hotel | A history of this old coaching inn | Page 40 and 47 |
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| Swan Inn | How the hostelry at Hockliffe became involved in the Gunpowder Plot. | Page 343 |
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| Swan pub deeds | | Page 353 |
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| Swan With Two Necks | -Coaching inn in Middle Row. | Page 428 |
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| Swan With Two Necks | List of stagecoaches which stopped at the Dunstable inn. | Page 452 |
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| Sydall | John. Rebellious congregation at Kensworth. | Page 356 |
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| Sylvester Daggerwood | The famously fictitious actor from Dunstable was the invention in 1795 of playwright George Colman. Details of how tickets to see him could be bought from the Mouse and Tinderbox, near The Theatre, Dunstable. | Page 281 |
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| Symmes | Zachary Symmes, former Rector of Dunstable, emigrated to Americas in 1634 and helped found the town of Charlestown. | Page 314 |
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| Tavistock Street | Suggested names for new developemnt. | Page 387 |
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| Teachers' Centre | The story of the panels working at the Beecroft and Chiltern Road schools. | Page 359. |
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| Tearle | Second Lieutenant Lewis Tearle's amazing escape in World War I dogfight. | Page 371 |
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| Temperance Hall. | Its location in West Street. | Page 444 |
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| Terry Oliver | Death of historian Terry Oliver reported. | Page 341 |
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| The Who | Early appearance of the band at the Queensway Hall, Dunstable. | Page 446 |
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| Thring | L.C.R. The Grammar School headmaster's cricketing career. | Page 383 |
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| Thring | - Elsie Margaret. Daughter of Grammar School headmaster, in WAACs during war. | Page 332 |
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| Tibbet | -James. Waterloo veteran of Edlesborough. | Page 484 |
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| Tibbett | James Tibett founded Dunstable's first newspaper, the Dunstable Chronicle. | Page 400. |
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| Tilcock | - Jack. Dunstable chimney sweep. | Page 330 |
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| Tilsworth murder. | Mystery of dead women's identitiy. | Page 482 |
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| Timeline book. | Dunstable Timeline, by Rita Swift, is published in book form by the history society. | Page 341 |
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| Tingrith Manor | Hugenot family there. | Page 375. |
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| Tllley's butchers shop | Old documents tell the story of the Middle Row shop back to the middle of the 1700s. | Page 338. |
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| Toad The Wet Sprocket. | Dunstable band re-formed in 2022 for concert in aid of Ukraine. | Page 468 |
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| Tolkein - | J R R. His war-time connections with Houghton Regis. | Page 491 |
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| Totternhoe Knolls | Brick piers there were for village water supply. | Page 380. |
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| Tower House | The home of John Dales, founder of the famous Dales Dubbin company, was one of the landmark buildings of Dunstable. Tim Wright lived there as a child and his memories are printed on | Page 307 |
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| Town Criers | Stories about town criers in Dunstable | Page 434 |
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| Town Hall. | The history of the town hall, demolished in 1966, is recounted by Joan Curran | Page 148 |
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| Tramps Ward | The building in Great Northern Road, opened in 1864 as a resting palce for destitute people. | Page 384 |
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| Tramps Ward | Baby born there in 1886. | Page 481 |
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| Treasure Quest | Society member John Pratt records the clues given in a local radio broadcast in 2009. | Page 232 |
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| Tunnels | Were there really subterranean passages in Dunstable? | Page 468 |
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| Turner | -Percy Vlako. Pioneering photographer in Dunstable. | Page 471 |
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| Turney, James | The four-year-old boy who was the first person to be buried in Dunstable Cemetery. | Page 392. |
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| Turnpikes (By Rita Swift and Omer Roucoux) | | |
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| Turpin - | Dick. Rumors about the highwayman. | Page 492 |
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| Turvey | -Trevor. Death of Old Dunstablians president, AC-Delco chemist. | Page 469 |
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| Tying | Deliverance. Her marriage in Boston, Massachusetts, to Daniel Searles. | Page 451. |
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| Uncle Mac | Radio's Children's Hour programme had a surprise for Jean Darby of Dunstable. | Page 348 |
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