i 14 AMPTHILL. BEDFORDSHIRE. [KELLY 8 Volunteer Battalion (3rd) Bedfordshire Regiment (E Company; Wildman Alfred, stone mason & surveyor & inspector of Capt. Francis P. Sautoy; Color-Sergt. Charles W. Dorlin. I nuisances to the Urban District Council, Church street drill instructor); head quarters & armoury. King's Arms P.H. Wildman James. builder, Dunstable street Market place Wildman Mary (Miss), school for juveniles, Dunstable street Walke>: Henry. shopkeeper. Woburn street Williams & Co. grocers & drapers, DUllstable street Walker William (Mrs.), boot maker. Market place Wolveridge Charles. master of the workhouse Wareing Thomas, grocer. Dunstable street Wing, Arnold & Wing, straw & felt hat manufacturers (Thomas Warner William John. Albion inn, Dunstable street Woodbridge, manager), Dunstable street Wheatley James, hair dresser, Dunstable street Woodcraft Samuel, tobacconist, Arthur street Wheeler John B. beer retailer & grocer, Park hill Woodhams James. beer retailer, Arthur street White Edward, hair dresser & tobacconist, Market place Woodland James. coal merchant & carrier White Robert Michael, deputy superintendent registrar of Woods Herbt. In. hair dresser & tobacconist. Dunstable street births. deaths & marriages & clerk to Flitwick. Harling- Young Men's Christian Association (James Brown, chair- ton, Lidlington, Maulden & Millbrook School Boards. man). Dunstable street . Dunstable street Young Women's Christian Association (Miss Maria Brown, pres.), Dunstable street ARLESEY is a village and parish on the Great Northern but now owing to foreign competition, this industry has been railway. 37 miles from London, 12 south-east from Bedford, reduced simply to the cutting of the straws. Arlesey Bury, 4 south from Biggleswade and 5 north from Hitchin, in the the property of and at present occupied by Col. Arthur Evelyn Northern division of the county, hundred of Clifton, petty Fyler, is pleasantly situated and stands in about 40 acres of sessional division. union and county court district of Biggles­ ground, containing some good timber. James Inskip. Major wade, rural deanery of Shefford, archdeaconry of Bedford H. J. Foster, John Earle Welby esq. of Allington Hall, Grant. and diocese of Ely. The village consists chiefly of one street. ham. George Oakley esq. of Lawrence End, George Davies esq. nearly 3 miles in length: the Great Northern railway has The Arlesey Brick Company I,td. (Heart's), and the vicar, stations at either end. The Three Counties station commands are the chief landowners. The soil is strong clay and gravel; all traffic (passenger and goods) for the Three Counties Lunatic subsoil, clay and gravel. The chi!'f crops are wheat, barley, Asylum, and the chief portion for the place itself. The beans and peas. The area is 2.331 acres of land and 13 of water; church of St. Peter is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early rateable value, £21,510; the population in 1901 was 2.221. English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of Parish Clerk, James Street. chancel, nave, aisles, south chapel, south porch and a massive Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., E. D., P. P. & A. & I. O. western tower of stone, pebbles and cement, erected in 1'l77 -Mrs. Hannah Papworth, sub - postmistress. Letters and containing 6 bells: the font has an octagonal basin, the received through Hitchin at 6.30 & 9 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sides of which are richly panelled and carved, and below are dispatched at 8.30 & 11.30 a.m. & 7.50 p.m.; sundays, figures of cherubim: there are two stained windows in the arrive at 7.50 ; dispatched at 10.50 a.m chancel, and one at the west end: the church contains some Post Office, Church End. - William Robert Suttle, sub­ fine marble monuments to the Brown and Edwards families. postmaster. Letters throu~h Hitchin at 7.50 & 10.50 a.m. In the north chapel is an Easter sepulchre of the Tudor period. &; 7.15 p.m.; cleared at 7.50 & 11 a.m. & 7.20 p.m.; sun­ The register of baptisms dates from 1538; marriage.~ and days, 10.10 a.m. Postal orders are issued here. but not burials. 1539. The living is a vicarage, with the rectory of paid. Arlesey is the nearest money order office and Arlesey Astwick annexed, joint net yearly vl1,lue £325. with 290 Station, l' mile distant, the nearest telegraph office acres of glebe. and residence. in the gift of and held since Wall Letter Box, Arlesey Railway Station, cleared at 7.50 1898 by the Rev. George James Mayhew A.K.C.L. The & 10.45 a.m. & 7 p.m.; sundays, 10 a.m. There is also mission church of St. Andrew at Three Counties. which a telegraph office at the Rtation serves as a chapel of ease, is a structure of brick with stone Wall I.etter Box, Middle, cleared at 8.15 & 11.15 a.m. & dressings, and was erected at a cost of £1.100 and opened in 7.35 p.m.; sundays. 10.30 a.m June, 1900; it has 200 sittings; Rev. Basil Guy Way B.A. Wall Letter Box, Hitehin road, cleared at 11.15 a.m. & of Exeter College. Oxford, has been curate-in-charge since 7.45 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m 1900. The Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1850, will seat 300, A School Board of 5 members was formed June 6, 1874; and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1875; H. Vandervord, Hony Lodge, Clifton. clerk to the board; and a Salvation Army room. The Working Men's Institute, .J. William Barnes. attendance officer established about 1880 (Messrs. Beart & Co. proprietors), comprises a reading room supplied with daily papers &c. and SCHOOLS. a lecture hall holding 300. and billiard and bath rooms. Here Board School, erected in 1875. at a cost of over £2,000. &; are engineering works, established in 1892. by Messrs. S. enlarged in 1888-9 for 400 children; average attendance, Owens & Co. of Whitemars E c. The Associated Portland 147 boys, 98 girls & 158 infants; Arch. A. Williams, master; Cement Manufacturers (1900) Ltd. manufacture the highest Miss Hannah C. Cook, mistress; Miss Annie Tebbutt, infants' class of Portland cement and hydraulic limes; their works, mistress. An Evening School is held here during the which have a frontage of 2,000 feet to the Great Northern winter on mondays & thursdays for instruction in drawing railway. are laid out on a most complete scale for the pro­ & commercial subjects duction of about 1,500 tons of lime and cement weekly. Board. St. Peter's (mixed. girls & infants), for 109 children, There are also extensive brick works, carried on by Beart's average attendance. 76; Miss Isabella Underwood, mistre&' Patent Brick Company or the Arlesey Brick Company, Arlesey Railwav• Stations. Alfrf'd Thomas Russell, station master Siding G. N. R. the Arlesey Station Gault Brickworks (Messrs. station master at Three Counties, George E. Green Eastwood & Co. Lim. owners), The London & Arlesey Brick Co. Ltd. where large quantities of perforated white bricks CARRIERS. and solid bricks of every description. as wen as draining tiles, are made, affording employment to many hands. Straw Hitchin. Albert Albone, tues. & fri plaiting was once carried on here to a considerable extent. Hitchin, Biggleswade &; Bedford, William Dew, tues Atkinson Rev. Augustus Dunbar M.A. Arlesey Co-operative Stores (William Cowdell Mrs. Mary Eliza, teacher 0 (chaplain to the Lunatic Asylum) King, manager) pianoforte Clark Mrs. Westwood ' ArleseyPrize Band(Chas. Dear, bandmstr) Cox Frederick, shopkeeper Fyler Col. Arthur Evelyn, Arlesey Bury Arlesey Station Gault Brick Works Crawley Albert, carter Hai ey The Misses (Messrs. Eastwood & Co. Limited, Davies George. farmer. Gothic farm Heptinstall Robert Hoilings M.R.c.s.Eng. owners; Aaron Gibbs. manager); Dear George, beer retailer, Hitchin road L.R.c.p.Lond London office, 47 Belvedere road, Eilis & Everard Limited, coal & soot Mayhew Rev. George James A.K.C.L. Lambeth SE merchants. Station Vicarage Associated (The) Portland Cement Manu- Farr Thomas, farmer, Chase farm Mousir George, Arlesey house facturers (1900) Ltd. (James Norman Fisk Natha.n, beer retailer Sha.nnon Wm. John L.R.C.S. &L.R. C.P. Edin Noel Shillito. branch manager) Fletcher Frederick, shopkeeper Shillito James Norman Noel Axam Thomas, beer retailer Flunder Daniel WaIter, assistant overseer Stokoe William Barcock Thomas. chimney sweep & clerk to the Parish Council Way Rev. Basil Guy B.A. (curateincharge Barnes William, sch.:»l attendance officer Fossey William. grocer & straw factor St. Andrew's Mission) Bates Ellis Chas. shoeing & jobbing smith Franklin Henry, coal merchant, Station COMMERCIAL. Bonfield William Edward, carpenter Gentle WaIter, boot maker Albone Albert, coal dealer & carrier Bowskill Frederick, shopkeeper Green Geo. E. station mast.Three Counties AlboneFrederick,generaldealer& beerret Brake Henry. grocer Harvey George Alexander, laundry. Albone Waiter. fruiterer Brown James. straw factor Hitchin road Arlesey Brick Company Limited (The) Burchmore George. grocer. Hitchin road Hawkes George, farmer (Beart's), manufacturers of all kinds Butler John, saddler Hawkes Joseph Frederick, hay & stra"\V of white bricks. both square & fancy. Bygrave William, grocer dealer & farmer & pipes of all sizes. Three Counties Chanter Joseph, beer retailer Heptinstall Robert Hollings M.R.c.s.Eng.. station, G.N.R.; & No. 1 wharf. G.N.R. Chellingworth Thomas Q. Williams, L.R.c.p.LOnd. physician & surgeon yard. King's Cross. London N cycle dealer Hibbert Frederick, chimney sweeper.