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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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The Old Pubs of Leighton Buzzard & Linslade
A history of the town's 120 pubs and inns from the Middle Ages, with names of publicans. It is 135 pages, fully illustrated with maps and photographs. Indexed. A5 size.
The Bassetts: Leighton Buzzards First Family
The story of the Bassett family during the 18th and 19th centuries, charting their rise from humble Quaker drapers to owning the town's first bank and becoming and its leading citizens.
St Barnabas Church - The First Hundred Years - 1849-1949
A comprehensive history of the first 100 years of this Victorian Church of St Barnabas built to serve the boom town of new Linslade as it grew up round the canal and railway station. Illustrated.
The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War
Leighton Buzzard, a quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began Q Central attracted a dozen other clandestine operations designed to defend the country or to confuse and undermine enemy morale including station X, Bletchley Park and the headquarters of radar for B...More Info