IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Crescent, MK40 2FY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Crescent, MK40 2FY by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (145 Images Found)
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House in The Crescent, Bedford
This house was the home of Amy Walmsley, who was principal of the Froebel Kindergarten School and Training College, which later became Bedford Training College for Teachers, and subsequently Bedford College of Education. The house adjoins the Bedford Training College building (on the right), which continued to be part of Bedford College of Education until 1982.
Bedford Training College building: Image
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 5 Oct 2019
0.03 miles
2
Number 6, The Crescent
In the late 1960s/early 70s, this house belonged to Bedford College of Education, and as a student of that college, I attended tutorials in one of the ground floor rooms, which was a 'through room' with window to the front and french windows to the rear garden.
The house now bears a blue plaque which provides the information that Admiral H. Smyth FRS, Astronomer and President of the Royal Astronomical Society built his observatory here in 1827.
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 5 Oct 2019
0.03 miles
3
Former Bedford Training College
The entrance to the building is behind the trees, in The Crescent, but here the building is photographed from Tavistock Street. The building bears a blue plaque stating that it was Bedford Training College from 1882. In the late 1960's, I was a student at Bedford College of Education (main site in Polhill Avenue) and I attended lectures in this building.
Blue plaque detail: Image
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 5 Oct 2019
0.04 miles
4
Plaque on former Bedford Training College
Detail of a plaque on a building at the junction of The Crescent and Tavistock Street.
Wider view of the building: Image
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 5 Oct 2019
0.04 miles
7
The Crescent, Bedford
A slightly odd name, as the road is almost straight. Viewed here from Dame Alice Street.
Several of the buildings in The Crescent bear blue plaques. The plaque on the nearest building on the left reads: Fanny Elizabeth Eagles (1836 - 1907) 'Sister Fanny', Church of England Deaconess. Community worker and founder of St Ethelreda's Children's Home here (1881 - 1984).
Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 5 Oct 2019
0.06 miles
10
Church of the Holy Trinity, Bedford
The church was built in Early English style in 1839/40 by John Brown of Norwich. The nave contains galleries on cast iron columns.The church closed in 1974 and then become the chapel of Bedford High School. When the school moved it became the property of Bedford College.
Image: © Richard Rogerson
Taken: 26 Sep 2016
0.07 miles