EAW003720 ENGLAND (1947). The River Great Ouse in flood around Kempston Road, Kempston, from the south, 1947

Site of Cauldwell Priory

The Queens Head (RIP)

Coopers Seeds

Opposite Whitbread Avenue on the pavement hidden by these advertising hoardings was a horse trough. The attached photo is a scan of a page from a book of photos of old Bedford.

Bedford Road, Kempston.

The Royal County Theatre & Opera House in Midland Road.

Railway bridge for the line from Bedford Midland Road station to St Johns Station.

Prebend Street bridge over the River Great Ouse.

Ford End Road railway bridge.

Electricity power station in Prebend Street.

Allotments

Football ground. This was the site of Bedford Town Football Club (The Eagles), i.e. The Eyrie. It is now Charles Wells Brewery after they moved out of Horne Lane in the town.

The footbridge to Queens Park was built here in 1953.

Trees on the river's edge.

An area excavated for sand & gravel know as The Ballast Hole. The semiconductor firm Texas Instruments built a factory here in the early 1960's and named the feeder road Dallas Road. After they moved to new premises in Manton Lane, the building was used by Hewlett Packard. It was later used by Forester Foods. After they moved out, the buildings were knocked down and the site has been cleared in preparation for housing development.

Railway bridge over the River Great Ouse.

The boatyard where Mr Smith kept some of his boats that used to give trips from Kempston to Bedford and along the Embankment.

Backs of houses in Beatrice Street, Kempston.

Allotments - under water.

Cauldwell House Lodge.

Cauldwell House.

Houses in Edward Road.

Britannia Iron Works.

Kempston Road, Bedford.

The edge of Austin Canons.

Cauldwell Walk.

Main railway line from Bedford to London.

Whitbread Avenue Post Office, now a general store.

Stafford Road.

Houses in Granville Street. I was born in the 4th house from the right in this year. The flood water came in to our back garden but not the house.

Whitbread Avenue.

Bedford Gas Works in Queens Park.