Hi Clive Kelly's Directory for Beds, Hunts, and Northants 1898 is accessible in facsimile on the free Historical Directories website (www.historicaldirectories.org) and lists Sandon & Son, plumbers, glaziers & painters, Market Sq Swan Commercial Hotel (Joseph Trueman prop.), High St Spong & Son, (estab. 1836), family & dispensing chemists, stationers & printers, agents for W & A Gilbey Lim, wine & spirit merchants, also proprietors of the Bedfordshire Pig Powders, High St; & at Sheffurd The lists of Private Residents lists a Miss H Sandon living in the High Street, likewise a Douglas M Spong. I hope this helps. I couldn't resist transcribing the whole entry for Spong & Son in full! Best wishes Peter Peter B Freshwater MA MCLIP FSAScot Edinburgh, Scotland peter@hillfoot.demon.co.uk Researching BRUCE, FOLWELL, FRESHWATER, PERKINS, SWINGLER (Beds, Leics, Northants) HAUGHAN, JOHNSTONE, RICHARDSON (Cumberland, Durham) DOW, FINDLAY, GRAY, JACK(SON), KENNEDY (Angus, Glasgow, Perth) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clive Sandon" <csandon@ozemail.com.au> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:15 AM Subject: [BDF] Fw: Swan hotel/pub at Biggleswade? Extra info > Further Helpful info????? > > There appears to be a shop called Spong & Son(I think) close to it. Any help??? > > Many thanks > > Clive Sandon > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Clive Sandon > To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 4:54 PM > Subject: Swan hotel/pub at Biggleswade? > > > Hi > > I have been given a photo of supposedly a shop front of one of my ancestors in Biggleswade. The name Sandon is on the shop front. However, I'm trying to find the name of the street. One clue opposite this Sandon shop is a pole with a picture of a white swan at the top. I was just wondering if this might have been a pub sign and maybe there was a Swan pub/hotel in Biggleswade. The things in the photo look quite old, maybe early 1900s??? One thing may help to date and label the street, is that there appears small piles of concrete/brick? squares(about 60cm along each side) along the dug up kerb as if they are replacing old squares. There is a man in a penny-farthing riding down the street. > > I also heard there is an informative website for old English pubs???? Any clues would be very helpful to establish the name of the street. > > Cheers > > Clive Sandon > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: > Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving the messages > individually or want them individually) > > or > > Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a digest of multiple > messages or want this mode) > > In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe or unsubscribe. >