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......in the light of life we'll walk till travelling days are done.
(Horatius Bonar 1808-89 alt.)

DURING THE 1940s autograph collecting was a more popular activity than it appears to be nowadays. During that period the market and industrial town of Bedford, England provided a fertile environment for collectors mainly due to the arrival in the town of several BBC departments concerned with music making and religious broadcasting.

    In the following pages signatures are used as pegs on which to hang a number of this author’s personal memories and also to provide other general information and biographical details of the persons who along the way have been invited to enter their names in the author's autograph book.

    The index section on the right gives some indication of the people involved and the dates when the autographs were obtained. The categories into which some have been placed is somewhat arbitrary - Constant Lambert, for instance, was both a conductor and composer !

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A brief description of Bedford with particular reference to the 1930s onwards.

The BBC used Bedford as a base for its music and religious departments in WWII.

The Granada Cinema and WurliTzer Organ

Personalities in the BBC Orchestras in the 1940s.
Paul Beard
Marie Wilson
Frederick Thurston
Sidonie Goossens
Jack Mackintosh
Julian Herbage

Memorabilia (classes, personalities etc) from the 1940s.

Sir Adrian Boult
Albert Coates
George Thalben-Ball
Basil Cameron
Clarence Raybould
Stanford Robinson
Maurice Miles
Leslie Woodgate
Berkeley Mason
Julius Harrison

Anthony Collins
John Ireland
Constant Lambert
Matyas Seiber
Elizabeth Maconchy
Elisabeth Luyens

Eva Turner
George Baker
Owen Brannigan
Astra Desmond
Janet Howe

Benno Moiseiwitsch
Leff Pouishnoff
Louis Kentner
Moura Lympany
Rawicz and Landauer
Myra Hess
Eileen Joyce
The Trimbles
York Bowen and
Harry Isaacs

Harry Mortimer
Berkeley Mason
Teddy Brown
Henry Holst

James Welch
Cyril Taylor
Peter Creswell
Edward Sackville-West
Cast of L'Arlesienne

Glenn Miller and the
Band of the AEF.

General Dobbie
Frank Adams
T. Howard Somervell
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trevor Huddleston

Army service in Cornwall.
RAEC Bodmin
Truro
Helston and Looe
A.L. Rowse
David Gentleman
The BBC Symphony
Orchestra in Cornwall.
Sir Adrian Boult
Stuart Hibberd
Alvar Lidell

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