Postcards of the area surrounding Bletchley & Fenny Stratford.
Postcards of the area surrounding Bletchley & Fenny Stratford, including Bow Brickhill, Broughton, Great Brickhill, Linslade, Little Brickhill, Simpson, Stoke Hammond, Woburn Sands, Woughton (but excluding Bletchley & Fenny Stratford)
Extent
40 Postcards
Contributor
Bob Odell
Reference number
BOD/002
Storage location
To Be Confirmed
Records in this Group
Great Brickhill Manor House, Great Brickhill. Apparently it was demolished in the 1930s.
Stockgrove House, possibly. Handwritten note reads “Stockgrove House, Beds”.
Picket Lodge, Leighton Buzzard. Handwritten note reads “The Lodge into Stockgrove Park now pulled down”.
Great Brickhill Church. Handwritten note reads “as it used to be 1907”
The Canal, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard. The canal viewed from a high point, curving in an S shape and with a wooden bridge.
Little Brickhill, looking west along the main street with two boys and a horse and cart on the far side of the road.
Simpson Church, Simpson. B&W image, looking north west from a lane.
Sympson Village and Church. Colour version of BOD/002/031. Looking north west from a lane. Handwritten note (on the lane) reads “this is the old road”
Stoke Village, Stoke Hammond. A lane with a few houses, one of which is timber-framed with a thatched roof.
Henry VII Lodge, Woburn Sands. A Tudor style lodge with timber frame, steep tiled roof and ornate moulded circular chimney pots, with trees behind.
Ye Old Swan, Woughton – One of Dick Turpin’s Haunts. Timber-framed building with a tiled roof and a small outbuilding with a thatched roof. The sign on the wall reads “YE OLD SWAN, PHIPPS’ ALES & STOUT. WINES & SPIRITS.” A man stands by the door.
Woughton Church of St Mary, viewed from the road and with the wooden lych gate in front.
Children on a canal barge
Comic holiday postcard. On the front it reads “There’s only one way of following horses with success!” and the picture shows a boy with a scoop and a wheelbarrow. On the back is a 2d stamp and the postmark is dated 1946, possibly 10th August.
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