To celebrate our tenth birthday in 2011 the Colmworth and Neighbours History Society initiated the publication of a local history journal. A second volume was published in 2013, a third one in 2014, a fourth one late in 2020 and a fifth in 2023.
The price of the CNHS Journal is £6 + p&p £3.
Please contact our Secretary, Simon Beverly on secretary@colmworthhistory.org.uk
Wybridge Cottage, Keysoe, Bedford MK44 2HL
For the contents of the fifth volume refer to the image below.
Papers contained in volume one were:
Coppingford to Colmworth – a personal journey full of strange coincidences and a royal twist! – Janice Susan Smith
Land labour and parish well being in rural north Bedfordshire – what can be learned from the 1901 Census? – John Hutchings
The Burgoyne Family of Sutton, Bedfordshire – Christopher Walker
Andrew Trapp of Moscow, Bedford, Bushmead and Thurleigh – Sue Jarrett
Progress – a Keysoe family story – Alan Woodward
The belching boiler of Colmworth – Thelma Marks
Papers contained in volume two were:
Malt in Medieval Bedfordshire – John Hutchings
Bedfordshire in the English Civil Wars 1642-51 – Declan McCabe
Nelson’s Bedfordshire Men – David Davies
Making Leather in Bedfordshire – Walter Landmann
Martha Ann Topham – Colmworth School 1884-1893 – Jeanne Rainford
Christopher Cooper – Sue Jarrett
Francis Crawley’s Keysoe Sale – Alan J Woodward
The Sound of Music in Colmworth – Thelma Marks
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