Luton Co-Op Bury park branch
In the early 1950s, American filmmakers made series of shorts to illustrate how the UK was recovering after the war. This example features aspects of the life of a Vauxhall foreman, Cecil Pattenden. In the film we see a good number of Luton landmarks - Stopsley in particular. The pub, corner shop, church, Dunstable Downs, ...
Luton airport control tower - it was opened on 25th September 1952 by British Conservative politician Alan Lennox-Boyd (1904 - 1983), the Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation. Demolished 1996.
1950 photograph showing The Rabbit and left hand side of the chapel. Also featured is a gas fired lamppost.
Letter to Sunday School parents informing them about church closure. In 1959 the decision was taken to close the church and sell the premises. Luton Borough Council would allow industrial use for two years otherwise the building would have to be used for worship or the site for private housing. The buildings were valued at £5,000. ...
Dunstable Road at junction Kenilworth Road Three generations of shop corner at junction of Kenilworth Road and Dunstable Road. Sydney Lane's Shoe and Boot Stores was in Chapel Street in 1906 but by the 1920s it had moved here. By the 1930s the shop had turned into Hodgson's Library (until the 50s) and Snowden's radio and ...
