92' LIIGB'rON Bt1ZZ.AID, :. [KELLY'B . iJravisions anJ other merchandise, and there is also a general winter season cooked provisions are dispensed to invalids on market for meat, fish and l"egetables, on Saturdays. The payment of a small fee. The Institute has now (r8g8) about fairs for horses and cattle are generally large, and are held 400 members. o0n February 5, the second Tuesday in April, Whit-Tuesday, The Provident Dispensary, in North street, was estab­ July 26, October 24, and the Tuesday following the 10th of lished in 1875 by the late Rev. Peter Overy M.A. a former December. The wool fair is held on the first Friday in vicar of Wing, and is managed by a committee. There were .July, and is one of the largest in the county. The statute in 1897, about 2,500 members . •(pleasure) fair is held on the first Tuesday after the II th Here is a charity, founded in 1630 by Edward Wilkes, of October. and further endowed in 1692 by Matthew Wilkes ; the In the Market place is an elegant and well-known cross, income, amounting to £272 yearly, derived from land, is .38 feet high, in the Perpendicular style, with flat grained expended in placing out as apprentices two boys every other .arches below, erected in the year 1330;, near the top are five year, and maintaining almshouses for ten poor widows, .niches, contaming statues of the Virgin and Child; a bearded each of whom recei,·es 6s. weekly, besides fuel and cloth­ figure, supposed to be Ed ward Ill. ; a bishop (possibly the ing : this charity is managed by a body of eight trustees; bishop of the diocese fur the time being) ; St. John the there are several other charities, the funds of which are Baptist, with the Agnus Dei and a book ; and the figure of distributed in bread and coal to the poor several times in the Christ as risen from the tomb : the whole terminates in a year. croeketed spire: it was restored in 1852, at a cost of £350. At Grove, or Grovebury, in the parish of Leighton, there The bank of Messrs. Bassett and Company, now incor­ was anciently a priory of nuns, founded about II69 by llenry JlOrated with Barclay and Company Limited, is on the south II. and colonized from Fontevrault, in Normandy; being side of the Yfarket place ; it was erected in' r866, from the confiscated during the wars with .~"ranee, it was eventually designs of Mr. A. Waterhouse R.A. and is a building of granted to the dean and canons of Windsor; here was also, Ancaster ~tJne in the Gothic style. temp. Henry II. a house of Cistercian monks, subordinate to In High Street is a branch of the London and County Woburn Abbey. !Banking Company Limited. The manor belongs to J. T. Mills esq. of Husbands The Leighton Horticultural Society holds a show yearly. Bosworth, Rugby, who holds courts leet and baron in Whit­ The Gas Works of the Gas and Coke sun week and the last Thursday in October. The principal Co. near the railway from Leighton Buzzard to , landowners are the Ecclesiastical CommissiOners, J. T. were built in 1882, at a cost of £6,ooo; the whole covers an Mills esq. Eclward La.wford esq. J".P. and Francis Bassett area of about 3 acres, and includes a board room and esq. J".P. offices. The area is 2,4n acres of land and 15 of water; rateable The Working Men's Club and Institute, in North street, value, £25,884; the population in r8gr was 6,704, including lhas a library of nearly 3,ooo volumes, part of which was 15 officers and 132 inmates in the workhouse (including presented by the late Duke of Bedford K.G. There is Fever Hospital). ;also a Biblical library of about I ,ooo volumes. During the Verger, Bailey Brasington, 13 High street.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. J'osT. M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, The Chairmen of the Urban & Rural District Councils in the l'arcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Ellen division are ex-officio Magistrates Maria Cook, postmistress Clerk to the Magistrates, Fredc. Thos. Tanqueray, W ob urn DEr.IVJ<:RIES.-----] & 9·45 a.m. 3.30 & 6.15 p.m.; sundays, 7 Petty Sessions are held at the Assembly Room, Corn Ex­ a. m. only change, every alternate tuesday at II a.m lhsPATCHES.-Bletchley, Northampton & the Midlands & The places in the division are llillington, , Egging­ the North, 5.30 a.m. ; local country post, 5·55 a. m. ; xst ton, Heath & Reach, Leighton Buzzard & Stanbridge delivery in Leighton Buzzard, 6.55 a. m. ; Bedford, 6letchley, Northampton, the Midlands & the Nort.h, URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. g.25 a.m. & 1.4_<; p.m.; London, the Southern, Eastern Council room, Assembly Rooms. & Western counties, 8.50 a. m.; Hockliffe, & 'febworth, 11.30 a.m. ; London & Southern, Eastern & Meeting day, last Thursday in each month at 10.30 a.m. Western counties, 11.30 a.m.; London, Berkharnpsteatl, Members. Tring, Watford & South, East & West, 12.45 p.m. ; Soul­ Chairman, "\Yilliam Sharp Page. bury & Stewkley, 2.10 p. m.; 3rd delivery in Leighton Buz­ Vice-Chairman, George Payne. zard,Ascott, Heath & Reach, Southcott & Wing, 3.25 p.m. ; London, the Continent, Aylesbury, Berkhampstead, Tring, Retire in April, 1899· Alfred W. Tooley Watford & South, East & West, 3.40 p.m. ; 4th delivery George Gale in Leighton Buzzard, 6. xo p.m. ; London & all parts, Charles llarris Gaorge Willis 8.2op.m.; London, Aylesbury, Uletchley, Berkhampstead, Retire in April, 1900. Dunsta.ble, Hockliffe, Luton, 'I'ehworth & South, East & Thomas IIandy Bishop Thomas Gibb~:~ West, 10.45 p.m. ; suuday, London & all parts, 8.20 p.m Benjamin Carpenter Henry Inns :Money orders are granted & paid, Sa,·ings Bank business Retire in April, 1901. from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Postal Orders from 7 a m. to William Sharp Po.1ge R. J. Platten 9 p. m. The telegraph department is open from 8 a. m. George Payne , James Webb till 8 p. m. ; sunday, from 8 a. m. to IO a. m "Town Sub-PosT, M. U. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Officers. Office, North street.-John Goodchild Masters, sub-post­ Clerk, G. L. B. Calcott, High street master. Box cleared at 8.35 & r1.ro a.m.; r.r5, 2.55, Treasurer, John Tindall, The Bank 5.3o, 8.o & 10.0 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m Medical Officer of Health, John Alxndr. Hedges, 18 Lakest 'Town Sub-Post, M. 0. 0., S. ll. & Annuity & Insurance F:n~ineer & Manager of Water Works, Thomas Hughes, Otiice, Hoc:kliffe street.-Mrs. Sarah Deeley, sub-post­ Stanbridge road mistress. Box cleared at 8. 35 & I r. 10 a. m.; r. r 5, 2. SS, Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector. Edgar Lines, 52 Dudley st 5.3o, B.o & 10.0 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m Collector, Thom·1s Brown, 7 North street IPILJ.AR LETTER BoxEs, Church street, cleared at 8.10 & PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- rr.o a. m.; I. 15, 2.45, 5.20 & 7.50 p.m.; snnday, 7.30 p.m. Cemetery, Mile Tree road, Henry Pettit, High street, clerk & Market place, cleared at 5.3o, 8.45 & 11.20 a.m.; 1.30, to the burial board 3·5• s.4o, 8.10 & 10.0 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m County Court, His Honor Sir Alfred George Marten Q.c., WALL LETTER BoxF.s, Canal Bridge, cleared at 8.35 & rr.o 1 L.D., M.A. judge: John Newton & Charles Wallis Bcrkeley a.m.; 12.20, 2.30,5 30, 8.o & 9.30 p.m.; sunday, 7.15 p.m. Calcott, joint registrars & acting high bailiffs. The Court .& Lake street, cleared at 8.35 & 11.0 a.m.; 1.15, 2.55, is held monthly at the Town hall. The district includes 5·3o, 8.o & 10.0 p.m.; sunday, 7.30 p.m. Heath road the following parishes, villages, hamlets or places :-Ascott (near Park road), 9.30 a.m. & 7.0 p.m.; sundny, 9.30 a.m (Bucks), Aspley Ford (Beds), (Beds), Aston I vinghoe (Bucks), Hattlesden (Beds), Braggenham (Bucks), COUNTY MAGISTRATJ.:S FOU LEIGHTON TIUZZAHD PETTY Burchmore Green (Beds), llurcott (llucks), , SESSIONAL DIVISION. (Beds), Chalton (Heds), Cheddington (Bucks), Chelsea J\Iacnamara Arthur esq. D.L. Billington manor, Leighton (Bucks), Church gnJ (Beds), Clipstone (Beds), Crafton lluz7.ard, chairman (Bucks), Camp End (Beds), Dugnall (Bucks), Dagnall .Bassett Francis esq. The Heath, Leighton Buzzard Hill End (Bucks), Dropshort (Beds), Eaton Bray (Beds), Bassett Frederick esq. The Knolls, Leighton Buzzard Edlesborough (Bucks), Eggington (Beds), (Beds), Gilpin Peter Valentine esq. Hockliffe grange, Hocklitfe R.S.O Gro,•e (llucks), Great Hillington (Heds), Heath (Beds), .HBrris Theodore esq. F.R.G.s. 'l'orquay Heath & Reach (Beds), Hockliffe (Beds), llollingdon Lawford Edward M.D., F.S.A. Oriel house, Leighton Buzzard (Bucks), Horton (Bucks), Hudnall (Bucks), Hulcote ;pll.ge William Sharp esq. High street, Leighton Huzzard. (Beds), (Beds). Ivinghoe (Bucks),

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