Conservation group. Co-founded by two local residents, architect Tom Affleck Greeves and Harry Taylor, following the demolition of some historic houses and unsympathetic developments in the neighbourhood. They were supported by poet and conservation campaigner Sir John Betjeman.
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Bedford Park Society
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Bedford Park Society
Alec Dickson, 1914 - 1994, founder VSO & CSV, lived and died here. Bedfor...
Beryl Brownsword, architect & conservationist, lived here, 1922 - 2007. B...
T.A. Greeves, 1917 - 1997, architect & artist co-founder of the Bedford P...
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