Kempston Local History Society
Our local history site – "Bringing History and Local People Together"
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Welcome
How Kempston was spelt in earlier times
The Saxon Centre
The Society’s Founding Members
Committee Members
Extract from Domesday Book 1086
History
Home Guard
History of the Trees
From Kemestun to Kempston
Notes on the Street’s history
Bedford U3A’s contribution
Kempston Embroidery
The Great Fire 1826 – Contemporary Newspaper Reports
The storm 1916
The Medieval Coroner
Oral History
Relics of a Box End Childhood in World War II
People
Baron Clark of Kempston
David Frost
Dennis Bellamy
Malcolm Dallrymple: Kempston’s own Olympian!
Don Brown
Sapper Bellamy
The Daubeney Family of Kempston
Buildings
The Addison Centre
Addison Howard Park
History of the Park
The Addison Howard Memorial Tree
The Avenue of Trees
Church Buildings
Prefabs
Kempston Rural Buildings
Crossland Fosse
Workhouse cottages
The Clockhouse
The 200 year old Clock
The Clock House 1990
The Mill and Mill Pond
Kempston Town Buildings
Kempston Mill
Springfield Asylum
History of Springfield Asylum
St Christopher’s (formerly The Lodge)
The Bury
The Grange
The Manor
St Stephens
The County School
The Howard Grave
Up End School
Interpretation Boards
1 – Kempston High Street
2 – The Bedfordshire Regiment in Kempston
3 – The Saxon Centre
Transport
Buses/cars
Horseshoe Coaches Garage
Electric Dust Cart
Narrow gauge railway
Plans for a Tramway between Bedford and Kempston
Balloon Disaster
Memories
Memories of Kempston
85 Years of Kempston Memories
A Slice of Life in Wartime Kempston
A Slice of Life in Wartime Kempston cont.
Memories of working at Springfield Asylum
Thurston’s Fair
All the Fun of the Fair
Chin and Alf
The Day the Canadians came to Kempston
Robert Mundy’s Grandmother
Springfield memories
Events
Contacts and Membership
Bury orchard
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