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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/005/007
Village Feast, Funeral of George Reader Jones

A newspaper article from the Bedfordshire Mercury of 10 November 1888 about the annual village feast and the funeral of George Reader Jones.
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.
THS/CWS/005/016
Death of Mr. Barton

An article from the Bedfordshire Mercury of 27 November 1886 about the death of James Barton, the founder of the Barton almshouses
THS/CWS/005/009
Measles, Palm Sunday

An newspaper article from the Bedfordshire Mercury of 24 March 1883 The school is closed because of an outbreak of measles Mr and Mrs Higgins invite the Sunday school children to Turvey Abbey to distribute boxes of figs on Palm Sunday
THS/CWS/005/012
Allotments, Fireworks, Wesleyan Chapel

A newspaper article from the Bedfordshire Mercury of 17 November 1888 Allotments have been laid out on land at Emberton belonging to Captain Higgins On 5 November a fireworks display was held in the park belonging to Captain Higgins A presentation to George Sargent who had played the harmonium in the Wesleyan Chapel for nearly twenty years

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