IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street, BIGGLESWADE, SG18 0JA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to High Street, SG18 0JA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (75 Images Found)
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Birthplace of the Laughing Policeman
The full name of Charles Penrose, also known as Charles Jolly, was Charles Penrose Dunbar Cawse. He was born in this building on 11 November 1873, in the flat over the jeweller's shop at 1 High Street, next to the former White Horse Inn which stood on the site of an even more ancient public house the Dog & Doublet. The whole of the premises is now used by Loline Interiors, but the Image still hangs above the eaves.
Young Charles initially followed his father into the jewellery trade, but enjoyed such success with his innovative laughing songs at local concert parties that he was invited to join a theatrical tour at the age of 18. His career as an entertainer took off, and he appeared in music hall and the West End. He retained his Bedfordshire accent all his life as can be heard on his recordings.
In 1922, Penrose made the first record of his song "The Laughing Policeman" under the pseudonym of Charles Jolly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1nPd7hezM . The composition is officially accredited to his second wife Mabel under the pseudonym Billie Grey, but the music, melody and hysterical laughing refrain are taken from "The Laughing Song" by the American George W. Johnson which he recorded in 1898.
Charles Penrose died, sadly not of laughter but of heart disease, on 17 November 1952 in Kensington, aged 79.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 1 Oct 2015
0.01 miles
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Sign from the former White Horse inn
Though the inn is no more, its sign still hangs above the Image in Biggleswade's High Street. The premises are now used by Loline Interiors.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 1 Oct 2015
0.01 miles
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Biggleswade, St. Andrew's
Parish church on Shortmead Street; C14 and later, listed by Historic England (Grade B): http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=37473&mode=adv
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 27 Nov 2017
0.03 miles
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To London 45 Miles
Old milestone on what was the Great North Road (A1) before being bypassed at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. For close up view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5525797
Image: © Keith Evans
Taken: 29 Jun 2017
0.04 miles
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St Andrew's, Biggleswade, Beds
Dating from around 1340, largely rebuilt from1467; in the early eighteenth century the original west tower collapsed and the present tower was built in 1720.
Image: © Rodney Burton
Taken: 12 May 2006
0.04 miles
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Biggleswade : Church of St Andrew
Grade II* listed : https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1321424?section=official-list-entry.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 8 Apr 2022
0.04 miles
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Biggleswade : Church of St Andrew
Grade II* listed : https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1321424?section=official-list-entry.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 8 Apr 2022
0.04 miles
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Biggleswade: parish church of St. Andrew
The parish church of Biggleswade, set to the west of the main town centre, on the other side of High Street.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 15 Jul 2008
0.04 miles
9
Pedestrian crossing on High Street Biggleswade
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 31 May 2012
0.04 miles
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Biggleswade: parish church of St. Andrew ? porch detail
A close-up of Image
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 15 Jul 2008
0.05 miles