Bedford Motel, Bedford

Spotlight on BEDFORD

Advantages: pleasant county town, historic connections, centre of sporting excellence, good shopping, something for everyone
Disadvantages: 'that photo' may have left a scar

Bedford hit the National headlines recently, with that horrific photograph of the bodies in the Hospital Chapel. The story ran all week and the Spotlight was most definitely turned on the historic County Town – for all the wrong reasons. But Bedford isn’t all bad – honest! It has become and extremely cosmopolitan town with a large Italian community as well as areas like Queens Park, where Asian and West Indian ethnicities dominate. Add to this a Polish and Slav ‘enclave’ and a number of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, you can see that modern day Bedford definitely has an international flavour to it. This is reflected – as you might expect – in the Restaurants in the town. Whatever happened to the good old English Restaurant? Ah you say, did we have any? Well Bedford’s culinary ...

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Review of Bedford (England)

Bedford Blues

Advantages: The roads and rail connections leading out
Disadvantages: The roads and rail connections leading in

To write about Bedford to pass the time, my boredom threshold has reached an all time low...... A little history Situated in Anglia and one hour north of London, Bedford is a cosmopolitan town with a population just in excess of 80,000. First recorded in Norman Times, it has increased in size through the centuries for several reasons but most notably due to the River Ouse which dissects the town, its relative proximity to the capital and, in the twentieth century, the establishment of brickworks which, now almost obsolete, were once the second largest in the world. Famous sons and daughters There a few Bedfordians who have made their name on a greater stage. In earlier times, these included men such as John Bunyan (author of the 'Pilgrim's Progress') and John Howard (an advocate of prison reform). More recently, the likes ...

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Review of Bedford (England)

Bedford.More than Bunyan

Advantages: Near to London;Good road and rail communications,;History
Disadvantages: Night life is a bit tame;

Bedford,the pleasant county town of Bedfordshire,which lies to the north of London, is forever associated with John Bunyan, the famous 17 th century preacher,pastor and author of Pilgrim's Progress. Reminders of this Son of Bedford in this town are never very far away. John,who was born in a cottage in Elstow Parish in 1628,is greatly honored in his home town. Unfortunately the cottage where he was born no longer exists but the spot is marked by a stone erected in 1951, there is also a John Bunyan Museum in Mill Street and a Statue of him in ...

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