Walk with Bedford Tour Guides to discover the strange, wonderful and, sometimes astonishing, stories and facts about the history of Bedford and its people.
Come and find out...
- Where can you see the signs of a raid on Bedford by the Vikings in 1010.
- Who believed that she could not walk further than 77 paces from her front door and yet accumulated great wealth which is now a charitable trust.
- How, and why, the course of English history was changed when King Henry III knocked down Bedford Castle in 1224.
- Where Bedford prison reformer John Howard died, and why the European monument to him is presently shrouded in protective boarding.
- What part Bedford played in establishing Bedfordshire as the ‘spy capital of Britain’ during World War II.
- Which buildings in Bedford were designed by nationally renowned architects who have very famous buildings in London.
- How former Bedford Prison Governor, Robert Evans Roberts, reduced re-offending in Bedford in 1859 and why his innovation is still a huge part of crime detection today?
