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Places > Bedford > Victorian Super Sleuth > Activities > Design your own Victorian shop front > Prints and Photographs of Shop Fronts in Bedford

Here are some prints and photographs of shop fronts in Bedford to help you.

These prints are taken from Where to Buy at Bedford: an illustrated review 1891.


Rose and Co., 123 High Street, Bedford. Pianoforte and music warehouse

James W. Maxwell, 70, High Street, Bedford. Wholesale and retail drapers

Underwood & Banks, 41, High Street, Bedford. Wholesale and retail clothiers, tailors, hatters and general outfitters

John Bull & Co., 49, High Street,  Bedford. Jewellers and watch and clockmakers


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These photographs are from Mate's Illustrated Guide to Bedford 1906
 
(published a few years after Queen Victoria died in 1901).
 

Dorothy Guppy, 37, St Peter's Street, Bedford. Millinery Specialist Hockney Brothers, 91 and 93, High Street, Bedford. Fashions for Ladies in Advanced Styles

Thomson & Son, 20, Silver Street, Bedford. Family Butchers
Thomas K.Green, 87, High Street, Bedford. Family Grocer

There's a lot more that you can find out about shops in Victorian Bedford.


Page last updated: 22nd January 2014