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All Our Yesterdays, Bedfordshire Times, 16th October 1986

Bedfordshire Times, reproduced with permission

Ashburnham Road, seen here in a Blake & Edgar photograph of 1906, takes its name from the Earl of Ashburnham, on whose Bedford estate building development began in the 1860s. It was a little unusual for a fashionable residential quarter to be laid out parallel with a railway line, Midland Railway Station was opened in 1859. The terrace on the right was demolished in the early 1950s and replaced by Ashburnham Court, a picturesque block of flats designed by Max Long & Partners in the Festival of Britain style. The detached villas on the left of the picture, hidden by trees, were demolished to make a forecourt for the new Midland Station opened in 1978.

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