New Accessions 2009
Here are just a few examples of the records deposited and catalogued in 2009.
All the catalogues are available online| and you can view the documents in our public searchroom or order copies by post or e-mail|.
Thousands of document descriptions on our NEW online public access catalogue|!
Clubs, Societies & Organisations
Bedford School Old Boys Association ‘Old Bedfordian’ year book & register 1926-1945; Bedfordshire Constabulary police registers 1840s – 1940s; Bedfordshire County Cricket Club 1879 – 1966; Bedfordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes annual reports & handbooks 1920-2008; Bedfordshire Local History Association minutes etc 1989-2008; Luton Arts Council minutes & papers 1951-1966; Old Farm Inn, Totternhoe Slate Club accounts 1930—1940
Properties
Deeds of The Rose, High Street Bedford 1546-1761; 34 Cauldwell Street 1874-1952; The Golden Eagle, Castle Lane, 1778-1888; Account Book of Eaton Bray Common 1844-1864; Manor Court Books of Potton 1866-1934; Plans for widening Bedford Town Bridge 1935-1936
Businesses
Company magazines and photographs from Laporte Limited, Luton 1927-1998; a sales account book from Wright & Company, wine Merchants of Sandy 1895-1898; business records of Stonehenge Bricks Limited, Leighton Buzzard 1935-1975; Griffin Brothers Electrical Limited of Leighton Buzzard & Stanbridge 1927-2009.
Family & Personal Papers
School and work records of Derek J Oliver of Luton 1929-2007; army service papers of Leonard Joseph Batchelor 1921-1928; deeds and family papers of the Pope family of Biggleswade 1738-1930; extensive correspondence of the Sanders & Wiggins families of Harrold 1850-1950; papers & photographs of John Hare, Bishop of Bedford 1890s-1980s; Valentine family papers 1912-1958; papers of the Hammond family of Bedford 1916-1970.
Schools & Colleges
Records such as Log Books, admission registers, school magazines, photographs etc for Ashton St Peters VA Lower School, Dunstable; Biggleswade Board School; Daubeny Middle School, Kempston; Kingsbury School, Dunstable; Luton Sixth Form College; Old Warden School; Priory Middle School, Dunstable; Robert Bloomfield Middle School, Shefford; Roecroft Lower School, Stotfold, Shefford Lower School; Shillington Lower School.