L. R. CONISBEE A BEDFORDSHIRE BIBLIOGRAPHY Second Supplement BEDFORDSHIRE HISTORICAL RECORD SOCIETY Published by THE BEDFORDSHIRE HISTORICAL RECORD SOCIETY and printed by White Crescent Press Ltd, Luton, Bedfordshire CONTENTS Page Introduction .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7 Abbreviations .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 Additional Corrigenda .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 A. THE COUNTY 1. ADMINISTRATION: Central Control - Local Control - Land Tenure .. .. 11 2. AGRICULTURE: Agriculture - Horticulture .. .. .. .. .. 17 3. ARCHITECTURE: General - Ecclesiastical - Secular .. .. .. .. .. 20 4. BIBLIOGRAPHY: General - Topography - History, etc. - Agriculture - Transport 28 5. COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORT, AERONAUTICS: Roads - Canals- Railways - Aeronautics .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 6. CRAFTS, INDUSTRIES, TRADES: Crafts - Industries - Trades .......................... 33 7. DIRECTORIES ............................................................................................................... 38 8. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY AND RELIGION: General - Religious Orders and their Houses - Dioceses of Lincoln and Ely - Roman Catholic Church - Free Churches 39 9. FAUNA: Natural History in General - Regions - Animals in Captivity - Reserves- Groups .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 42 10. FLORA : General - Regions - Groups .. .. .. .. .. .. 44 11. FOLKLORE 45 12. G E O L O G Y ........................................................................................................................... 46 13. HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, RECORDS: General - Archaeology and Early History - Later History - Printed Records and Sources .. .. .. .. .. 47 14. M ETEOROLOGY............................................................................................................... 56 15. MILITARY HISTORY: Regimental - Militia - Volunteers - Miscellaneous .. 57 16. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS: Newspapers - Periodicals............................ 59 17. NUMISMATICS: Coins - Tokens - Seals - Miscellaneous .. .. .. 63 18. SPORTS AND PASTIMES: General - Ball Games - Field Sports .......................... 65 19. TOPOGRAPHY, ETC., THE RIVERS: General - Rivers : Great Ouse, Ivcl, Other Rivers .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 67 20. WORDS AND NAMES: Dictionaries and Dialect - Place-Names, General - Place- Names, Local - Personal Names .. .. .. .. .. 71 5 B. PLACES 21. BEDFORD: Topography, Guides, etc. - Records, History - Places of Worship and Religious Bodies - Charities - Schools - Administration - Cultural and Recreative Facilities .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 72 22. DUNSTABLE: Topography, etc. - Records, History-The Priory, Other Places of Worship - Charities - Schools - Administration - Cultural and Recreative Facilities .. 81 23. LUTON: Topography, etc. - Records, History - Places of Worship and Religious Bodies - Schools and Education - Administration - Cultural and Recreative Facilities 84 24. OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES: General - Towns and Villages (arranged alphabetically) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 89 C. PERSONS 25. BIOGRAPHY: General - Individual Biographies (arranged alphabetically) .. .. 105 Index of Authors .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 122 6 INTRODUCTION the purpose of this Supplement is to record information about Bedfordshire that has appeared during the five years (1966-70) following the first Supplement (published 1967), together with earlier material that has come to light from many varied sources. Some widening of latitude has been used in the choice of items for inclusion, especially with regard to typescripts (and even two or three MSS.), often in the form of theses on special local subjects not dealt with elsewhere, and, although existing only as single copies, available at one of the libraries - usually at the B.R.O. Also one or two unique items of interest in private hands (Whitworth’s Wilshamstead comes to mind) are included as their owners might permit photo-copies to be made. Unfortunately it has not been possible to admit sales catalogues and parish magazines, whose neglect was deplored by one reviewer of the original Bibliography. Some of the former are temporarily in store and the latter, occasionally quite useful (the Wilstead paper came from a parish magazine), are very scarce and do not turn up in long runs. Certain events welcomed by the student of Bedfordshire have taken place in the period under review. First and foremost has been the appearance of a history of the county ‘fully satisfying’ - to quote the words of the hope expressed on page 88 of the Bibliography - and likely to be defini­ tive. Acceptable too has been the opening of the vastly enlarged premises of the County Library and Record Office now united in one commodious annexe of the new County Hall. Here at last is ample room for staff and students, and the addition of the Bagshawe books and papers enhances the value of material already augmented by the Fowler collection. To the present compiler, long used to the disposal of books and pamphlets in the old Embank­ ment building, the unfamiliar rearrangement of the stock was at first not an unmixed blessing; but the assistance of the staff soon eased the situation and the extensive card index of the County Library’s local collection has been gone through in toto and is the basis of this Supplement. Equally helpful has been the unremitting co-operation of the reference room staff at the Public Library, where the storage of so much material in preparation for the building of new premises was another diversion that might have seriously hampered research. This research has extended the field covered by the previous compilations and has included a selection of articles in The Ousel, from its beginning in 1876, and of news cuttings at the B.R.O., an examination of the Bagshawe volumes, and an analysis of the neglected Manshead Magazine. Outside the county, at the suggestion of Mr Tibbutt, the Bedfordshire card index at the Society of Antiquaries has been closely scrutinized. Many of its items were checked in archaeological periodicals at Cambridge, where the voluminous reports of the major nineteenth century royal commissions on education were searched for local references, and, at a hint from Mr Underwood, the volumes of the early Victorian British Magazine (founded by a brother of a rector of Houghton Conquest) were scanned: all this leaving one with the uneasy feeling that still more remains to be done! A brief glance through this list will reveal how a bibliography must match the pattern of the age. There is a predominance of (to some) rather soulless articles on ‘development’ in industry, tech­ nology, building, traffic problems, with the administration thereof and much publicized con­ troversy, planning and more planning - aimed at reconstruction and ‘improvement’, but often entailing in preliminary stages the destruction of much that is old and cherished. Perhaps however, the growth of a line of study hardly known when this work was first considered - Industrial Archaeology - marking efforts by archaeologists (that increasingly active body) to preserve former industrial sites and structures, if combined with the aims of Conservation Year 1970, may herald a more heedful policy in the future. Few of the technological journals referred to are in the public libraries and so the Bedford Area List of Periodicals (here abbreviated to BALP), drawn up in 1965 by Mr Andrew Jackson, formerly of Bedford Public Library, and later revised by his successor, Mr W. K. A. Child, now at the County Library, is useful in finding their location in the libraries of firms and institutions. To direct those to whom these collections are not accessible the symbols BM. and/or U. are added to the appropriate entries. Once more Luton Library and Bedford Library are warmly thanked for their generous con­ tributions towards the printing of this Supplement. Furthermore, these libraries, together with the 7 County Library and Luton Museum and Art Gallery, have through the exertions of assistants advanced the completion of the work. Many thanks are due to the co-operation of the following: Mr A. Threadgill, Mrs Barbara Wilkinson, Mrs K. Dicks, Miss V. Ellis (County), Mr Nicholas Wilde and Miss Aileen Feneley (Bedford), Miss O’Connor (Luton), and Miss M. J. Calcutt (Luton Museum). They have found books and pamphlets where the stock has become temporarily disorganized through re-housing and a definitive catalogue is not ready for general use, they have checked the location of many items, made lists of recent acquisitions, and replied to written en­ quiries. Some have done more than others, but without the aggregate of their efforts the Supple­ ment could not have reached its final form. At Cambridge the usual efficiency of the University library staff has been most helpful, and thanks are extended to the librarian of the Society of Antiquaries, London, as well as to the following tor requested information: the Bedford County Press (Mr E. Pitt, etc.), the Home Counties News­ papers (Mr Heritage), the Herts & Beds Express Group, G. Kent Ltd., and the librarians at St Albans, Hertford, Hitchin, Newport Pagnell, Leicester, and Nottingham. For their response to special enquiries I am grateful to Mr R. J. Able, Major R. Bowen, Mr A. Cox, the late Mr Frank Crompton, the Rev J. W. Faulkner (whose regular gift of The Lock Gate may set an example to other editors!), Mr H. W. Harum, Mr R. L. Hills, Mr Simon Houfe, Mr R. N. Hutchins (Harpur Trust), Lt.-Col. N. G. MacLean, Mr R. Marks, Mr C. L. Matthews, Mr R. F. Moore, Mrs Morris (Planning