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THS/JNC/003/011
Village Scrapbook: Turvey

Unknown paper A general article on Turvey with references made to the architecture of the village, its traffic, the church and it’s organ. An outline of the Mordaunt family’s role in the village is provided and the coming of the railway. Reference is also made to Thomas Andrews the poet of Turvey and the fact that ...
THS/JNC/003/015
Nell's Well

From the Mercury & Herald. Same cutting as County Parade but with the addition of a photograph of Mr George Tysoe, 75, drawing a jugful of water from Nell’s Well, together with the tablet erected in 1875 paying tribute to the well’s purity.
THS/JLH/003/042
Long Life in the Villages

A letter from I Timpson of Newport Pagnell, formerly of Turvey, to the Beds Times and Independent newspaper, published on 14 October 1898, about life in Turvey in the 19th Century. He writes about the Higgins families, the farming families (Whitworth, Bolton, Keech, Paine, Gaton, Davis, Skevington, Dunkley, Halatt, Sturges), Rev Russell and Mr Cecil, the ...
THS/CWS/005/004
Death of Colonel Higgins

An obituary of Colonel Higgins of Picts’ Hill from the Bedfordshire Mercury of 19 October 1878.
THS/CWS/004/006
A Nineteenth Century Turvey Family

An article by Dick West from Bedfordshire Country Life about a family in Turvey living through the nineteenth century and the changes they will have seen.

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