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, ...
British Shoe Company - corner Cheapside / George Street
Jackson & Brown, florists, seedsmen and Beech Hill Corn Stores, 176-178 Dunstable Road, Luton.
Luton Co-Op Bury park branch
Bury Park Dunstable Road at junction Waldeck Road. Features shops F Judge Cycle Dealer, Chamberlain Hardware Stores.
Description of journey via Peterborough and Hatfield. "Going to Chelmsford Monday."
Davis Butchers in Park Street
Davis Butchers Shop in Park Street
Davis Butchers Shop in Park Street
Davis Butchers Shop in Park Street
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 ...
This is a picture that appeared in the Luton News in September 1969 in a special feature on Bury Park. It shows Mirza Khan and Zafar Qureshi at a shop in Bury Park Road that sold Pakistani, Indian and English food. The paper reported: "In it, one can buy chapattis, lime pickle or Heinz baked beans. ...