Moon Carrot in Chalk Hills
Mural from Luton Library wall, 1984
Vacant site in North Street with 6 cottages in background before transfer. Possibly the minister and daughter on LHS.
1950 photograph showing The Rabbit and left hand side of the chapel. Also featured is a gas fired lamppost.
North Street Wesleyan Methodist church was built in 1871 and was part of the Luton Wesleyan Circuit The chapel was on the other side of the street and virtually opposite the later chapel. It cost £500 to build. In 1880 the chapel joined the newly formed Waller Street Wesleyan Circuit. By the 1913 the decision had ...
Two beautifully preserved signs from the turn of the century from a simple corner grocers on Ashton Road. The narrow strip between roofs on the sloping Ashton Road gives space to state “Overy Grocer and Provision Dealer." There are traces of a previous sign as well.
The rear has the cheerful slogan “Drink and Enjoy,” which would not have won the approval of the temperance movement of the time. It’s a shame someone has constructed a window right in the middle of the slogan. Having sold ”eggs, butter and groceries” in Hockliffe of 1890, the 1911 census shows that William Overy worked ...
"Number 95" high up at the top of an obscured sign
Harry took this photo of his daughter Chrissie Lizzie and her husband Ernest Shepherd. Note the background as this is typical of his studio-based portraits
Perhaps the most unusual business in High Town was that undertaken by Powdrill’s. The founder, George Powdrill, was born in Derbyshire and while still a boy travelled selling crockery in markets but later became an independent carter, hauling goods down a primitive Old Bedford Road. By 1871 he had come to live off the upper part ...
Putteridge Bury house and gardens
Reginald Street on the boundary of High Town and New Bedford Road was at the heart of the “cottage industry” hat trade as opposed to the factories near the centre of town. Kingham Way (between 67 & 69 Reginald Street) perpetuates the name of G. Kingham, a building firm. The premises at the rear are now ...
Woman wearing the ensign of Salvation Army