Elizabeth Munns Archive

The vast majority of the collection comprises photographs, archives and printed ephemera and research notes collected by Elizabeth Munns who bequeathed them to the Society on her death on 4th December 1984.

The exception is the text of the talk on the history of Biggleswade by George Saunders, written in 1891, which was deposited directly by the Society (ref: X 758/3/4). Various Biggleswade school log books were, with the agreement of the Society, returned to official custody and are catalogued at (ref: SD Biggleswade 5/1-2; 6 and 7).

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

X 758/1 Photograph Albums

X 758/1/1-7,18,22 Biggleswade c1873-1978

X 758/1/8-9 Potton c1922-1970s

X 758/1/10 Potton and district; Cockayne Hadley, Sutton and Everton 1887-1976

X 758/1/11 Sandy and hamlets (see also X758/1/22) c1900-1978

X 758/1/12 Northill and hamlets of Caldecote and Ickwell; Gamlingay, Dunton, Tempsford, Blunham and Old Warden c1880-1972

X 758/1/13 Langford, Shefford, Clifton and district c1900-1970s

X 758/1/14 Bedford town and mostly north Bedfordshire villages c1904-1970s

X 758/1/15,19 Dan Albone, Biggleswade, cyclist and inventor c1900-1950s

X 758/1/16 Family photographs, including Brimley of Roxton and Saunders and Pyewell of Blunham. Views of Blunham rectory c1910

X 758/1/17 Wrestingworth, Potton, Gamlingay, Cockayne Hatley and Ickwell c1898-1982

X 758/1/20 Cartoons from local newspapers c1930s-1970s

X 758/1/21 Bedfordshire Yeomanry and World War One miscellaneous: anti-German cartoons, military figures and nurse Edith Cavell 1907-c1918

X758/1/22 Biggleswade illustrations covering unspecified period

X 758/1/23 Negatives for many of the album copy prints

X 758/1/24-25 Airship R101 c1929-1980

X 758/2 Individual Photographs

X 758/2/1 Biggleswade 1891-c1950

X 758/2/2 Eyeworth Royal Engineers search light battery, Church Meadow c1940

X 758/2/3 Langford Salvation Army Band 1925

X 758/2/4 Sandy 1897-c1920

X 758/2/5 Shefford c1912

X 758/2/6 Portraits, groups, miscellaneous and unidentified c1880-1940

ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS (mostly for Biggleswade)

X 758/3 Miscellaneous archives and manuscripts 1761-1934

X 758/4 Receipted bills 1881-1977

PRINTED ITEMS

X 758/5 Property auction sale catalogues and posters 1860-1955

X 758/6 Parish magazines. Northill and Biggleswade 1893-1981

X 758/7 Almanacks and year books, mainly for Biggleswade 1879-1910

X 758/8 Biggleswade town guides c1955-1979

X 758/9 Biggleswade coronation and jubilee souvenirs 1902-1981

X 758/10 Ephemera and programmes, mostly for Biggleswade c1877-1978

RESEARCH FILES

X 758/11 Biggleswade public houses compiled : c1967-82

NEWSLETTER

Z 758/12 Newsletter 28 May 1985

Acc No 6473/6670

Items deposited by Biggleswade History Society on 15 February and 14 December 1989.