Group    From 1669 

Bedford Estates

Categories: Property

The motto, Che Sera Sera, you should all know from the song (What Will Be, Will Be) and the animal is an antelope. This symbol is a much reduced version of some of the heraldry associated with the Bedford Estates.

Looking for a map showing the extent of the Bedford Estates, this is the best we've found.

More information about the Bedford Estates: "The Bedford Estates has owned, developed and managed much of Bloomsbury since 1669."

This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Bedford Estates

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Bedford 1972

We believe that the crown and the 'B' are indicative of the Bedford Estates a...

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Eagle House - Clapham

Eagle House - Clapham

Country house built by Benjamin Bond, when Clapham was fashionable for out-of-town residences. After 1889 the estate was sold and the main house and many of the other buildings were pulled down.   ...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Fawcett house in Vauxhall

Fawcett house in Vauxhall

From Friends of Vauxhall Park: "In 1725 Edward Lovibond of St James, Clerkenwell, bought the Carroun estate. The Lovibonds let part of the estate, subsequently known as The Lawn, to James Gubbins a...

Building, Property

1 memorial
Jonathan Carr

Jonathan Carr

Jonathan Thomas Carr. Founder of Bedford Park, the first garden suburb, in 1875. He lived in the suburb, first at Tower House, since replaced by St Catherine’s Court flats, which he left in 1904 to...

Person, Property

2 memorials
Improved Industrial Dwellings Co Ltd
3 memorials
Elm Grove manor

Elm Grove manor

The Percevals moved to Ealing in 1808 and purchased Elm Grove manor which was on the site where All Saints Church now stands.  They had 12 children.  After Spencer's murder the government gave his ...

Building, Property

1 memorial