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Great Brickhill Heritage Project

Our Heritage site has been improved with several innovative additions

– it is free to all Residents

The Great Brickhill Heritage Project website has been refreshed, with new and improved ways to explore the history of the village and to share local knowledge.

New material includes a Leighton Buzzard Observer parish news archive, Virtual Tour material, improved member guidance, and new display tools for sharing village material more easily, including in Celia’s Café and to your own Smart Phone or TV screen!

A new Historic Walks section has been released for you to try out and appraise. Residents and other Members are invited to try the ‘walk’ pages, suggest corrections, and add memories, photographs and local knowledge. The walks should be treated as ‘evolving’ rather than a finished guidebook.

The project now allows content editing to selected pages so that members can contribute their own information to the site, including photos or diagrams. Again, this process is at the early stages so that we can get feedback from you.

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Part of our Extensive 1750 + Photo Collection

1964 Cross End School
C of E School Gargoyle
Back Row: Left to right: Not Known 3, Joy Volkman, Helle Hopkinson, Betty Hinton, Pauline Lowen, Not Known 4, Lady Rachel Duncombe, Not Known 5, Iris Read, Mrs. Mead, Not Known 6, Not Known 7, Mrs. Atterbury, Not Known 8, Rose Lansbury, Mrs. Dickins, Sheila Curtis (behind Mrs. Mead), Not Known 9, 10 & 11, Lavinia Smith. Front Row: Not Known 12, Dolly Barnell, Mrs. Ping, Not Known 13, Mrs. Seymour, Audrey Turner, Mrs Bates (in wheelchair), Lilian Rolls (M-I-L of Dorothy, Hi Ash Sec)
Chris Leech Collection
1980s Aerial View Duncombe Arms area
Cross End & Old Red Lion
1900s Villagers and Bandsmen
Duncombe Family
Manor Hill from Galley Lane by John Horncaps Lane
Duncombe Family
Lower Way Gates Houses
Duncombe Family
South and North middle lodges Manor Hill
Former Duncombe Arms 2023
Green EndTop Lodge
1906 Top Lodges
Lower Way
34 Lower Way looking North from The Duncombe Arms
MW Book Images
36. Cross End School 1964.
MW Book Images
35. In the classroom at village school about 1911.
MW Book Images
14. Duncombe Arms (left) early 1900s, Lower Way towards Old Red Lion.
Sunrise - Sunset Collection
2023 Lower Way Opp Old Duncombe Arms – IL
Sunrise - Sunset Collection
2023 Sunset Lower Way Opp Old Duncombe Arms – IL
Village Views
View from former Duncombe Arms
Woods Family
St Mary's GB – Woods Family