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Bedfordshire Beautiful

1950 - 1960 , Bedfordshire (County)

Cat no. 7789

A journey through the sights of Bedfordshire.

A journey through the Bedfordshire countryside, from busy Bedford to rolling farmland and picturesque gardens, from grand country estates to quaint churches, majestic windmills and medieval ruins. The film includes many village signs which carry the 1951 Festival of Britain symbol. Highlights include rowing on the Great River Ouse in Bedford, a 1957 meet of the Hertfordshire Hounds hunting party, and May Day celebrations at Ickwell. Views of the Cardington Airship Sheds, the Stevington Windmill, the long row of thatched cottages in Melchbourne and the burnt out shell of a windmill at Lower Dean are contrasted with steam trains powering past 'The Lookout' at Sandy and the billowing chimneys of the Stewartby Brickworks. Also featured are the picturesque gardens of Wrest Park near Silsoe, the chalk downlands of the northeastern Chilterns, the parks and gardens around Woburn Abbey, gliders in flight over Dunstable Downs and the the chalk quarry beneath Totternhoe Knolls.

Featured Buildings

Bedford Rowing Club; Bedford Bridge; Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford; Southill Park House; The Mansion House, Old Warden; Cardington Sheds; Elstow Moot Hall; Stevington Windmill; The Lock Up, Harrold; Melchbourne Park House; Packhorse Bridge, Sutton; Wrest Park, Silsoe; Catherine of Aragon Monument, Ampthill; Houghton House; Stewartby Brickworks; Woburn Abbey; Someries Castle

Featured Events

Hertfordshire Hounds meet, 07 March 1957; May Day celebrations at Ickwell

Other Places

Bedford, Bedfordshire; Southill, Bedfordshire; Old Warden, Bedfordshire; Ickwell, Bedfordshire; Cardington, Bedfordshire; Elstow, Bedfordshire; Bromham, Bedfordshire; Oakley, Bedfordshire; Stevington, Bedfordshire; Pavenham, Bedfordshire; Felmersham, Bedfordshire; Chellington, Bedfordshire; Carlton, Bedfordshire; Harrold, Bedfordshire; Odell, Bedfordshire; Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire; Bletsoe, Bedfordshire; Swinshead, Bedfordshire; Melchbourne, Bedfordshire; Lower Dean, Bedfordshire; Yieldon, Bedfordshire; Upper Dean, Bedfordshire; Thurleigh, Bedfordshire; Ravensden, Bedfordshire; Renhold, Bedfordshire; Sandy, Bedfordshire; Clophill, Bedfordshire; Silsoe, Bedfordshire; Barton-le-Clay, Bedfordshire; Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire; Ampthill, Bedfordshire; Millbrook, Bedfordshire; Stewartby, Bedfordshire; Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire; Lidlington, Bedfordshire; Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire; Aspley Heath, Bedfordshire; Woburn, Bedfordshire; Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire; Whipsnade, Bedfordshire; Studham, Bedfordshire; Totternhoe, Bedfordshire; Stanbridge, Bedfordshire; Someries Castle, Bedfordshire

Manifestations

Bedfordshire Beautiful

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