Post-war opportunities in the English employment market saw a steady stream of people cross the Irish Sea. The community then began to organise and provide essential welfare services to support the most vulnerable.
A story of Luton's Newspaper, from it's birth to nowadays, narrated through the lents of my own experience and knowledge, as former advertisement manager at the Luton News, Saturday Telegraph and Pictorial.
Perhaps the most unusual business in High Town was that undertaken by Powdrill’s. The founder, George Powdrill, built up a business as a builders' materials merchant, coal merchant, furniture remover and farmer.