Building Plaques and Architecture
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| Hitchin Street | Coronation Cottages 1902 TB
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Houses | 153-159 (on 155-157) “TB” stands for Thomas Bushby, born in Westoning, Bedfordshire. He was a carpenter and joiner in Biggleswade in 1901, aged 70, where he was also owner of the beer house ‘The Carpenters Arms’, now 116 Hitchin Street. He was Licensee from 1868 to 1910. He was a great-great-grandfather of our member Tim Haddow. |
| “ | Holme Villa
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House | 161-163 (see 1900 & motifs below) |
| “ | Hope Terrace
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House | 142-150 |
| “ | Lillie View
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House | 152 |
| “ | Prospect Place
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Houses | 1-4 |
| “ | Rosslyn Villas 1894 FCB
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Houses | 133-135 |
| “ | Salisbury Terrace
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Houses | 123-129 |
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| “ | 1886 FEC
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House | 101-103b Note Mill Wheel design |
| “ | 1892
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Houses | Above passageway arch 125-127 |
| “ | 1895
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House | 117 |
| “ | 1899
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House | 137-143 |
| “ | 1900 AP
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Houses | 161-163 (Holme Villa on 163) |
| “ | 1969 ER
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Industrial | Telephone Exchange |
| “ | MMIII
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House | 80 |
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ARCHITECTURE |
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| “ | Decorative Motif
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Houses | 88-90 |
| “ | Decorative Motif
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Houses | 125-127 |
| “ | Decorative Motifs
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House | 161 |
| “ | Old Building
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Barn | Behind 161-163 |
Photographs by Chris Johannesen and Mollie Stocker – 2010.