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Bedford Road
The south part of Bedford Road is included in the Court Estate
It was a trunk road - the A6 - now diverted to the Bypass Liberty Way.
See also notes by J E Smith on Bedford Road

Bedford Road
Taken from a glass plate - Photo by Cyril Desborough c1906

extract
Extract from the picture - Photo by Cyril Desborough c1906

cottages
This date stone 'Rebuilt 1905' is on a row of four cottages. They stand at the junction from Mannings Rise, close to Abbott's.

Colin Bryant Collection - Courtesy of Rushden Museum
old farm with sundial
Dial Farm with sundial, and row of cottages beyond.
The man with cart is standing at the track to the abattoir.
The Co-op bought the farm and abattoir.

Colin Bryant Collection - Courtesy of Rushden Museum
Hilly Farm in the 1960s
Hilly Farm in the 1950s when Willmott's were farming here

Hilly Farmhouse and Outbuildings, are now listed buildings

shop and post office Manor Farm
The old Post Office

The shop and Hilly Farm c1990s

Bedford Way Motors
Bedford Road Motors 1960s - now a car wash.

8 houses
The 8 houses in Bedford Road - also known as Park Cottages

plan

Rushden Echo, 11th December 1925, transcribed by Kay Collins - Notice of Diverting the Footpath
by the Clerk to the Council. Instead of running behind the Tecnic shoe factory to be moved to opposite the 8 houses.

Beyond Avenue Road - Court Estate

Breeze Villa
Breeze Villa

Headlands - 272
The Croft - 290
The Chestnuts - 296


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