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Well I have come across this page, its a runthrough of all the major companys in Bedford its >>>HERE<<< if you want tosee it in full, anyway third down the list is our friends J & F Howard and it states that the company ran from 1818 until 1932

I have found some more photos of the Howard traction engine that I have been stalking

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I have come across another Wikipedia page this time about James and Fredrick Howard I quote the following.

"James and Fred Howard of Bedford later known simply as Howards, were one of the smaller English makers of agricultural machinery and steam Traction Engines. At The Great Exhibition of 1851 they exhibited a range of horse-drawn implements. After World War I, Howards became part of AGE, Agricultrual & General Engineers, along with many of the other British makers of similar machinery.

the page is here

Well i'm back

Hello Howardees

sorry I havent been posting I have had computer troubles so im finaly back online and service will resume as normal tomorrow

in the mean time heres some of my favorite Howard related photos



...Its Magnificent

Well I'm in Hampshire now and I did just as I promised drop through Bedford to take photos of the Britannia Iron Works gate, sadly there is now a housing estate on the site but behind you can see the remnents of the rail network that would have come into the works.

to take the photos we parked in the Bedford Hospital car park right opposite the gate (its free for 10 minuites) sadly we stayed 18 minuites and we had to pay £3.50 after we were done we payed and drove out turning left up Britannia road and left again at the top, we left past the Corination Works and through Stuartby towards the big chimney marked Stuartby once we passed we were running parralel with the new bedford duel carrigeway and we went on to milton keynes through oxford and suouth.


I suppose you want to see the pictures though, well here they are.

I took a few pictures of whats behind the gate on the site of the old works and inside the gatehouse

Thats Dad, he bought the plough that gave birth to this blog

this is part of the Hospital opposite, probably built around the same time as the Ironworks

there are more photos that I will upload soon they are on my Dad's camera and there are even some of me on it.

   Well I hope you enjoyed those photos, I took pictures of it at every possible angle apart from above for you and you even got to see pictures of the original wall with original ironwork on the wall. The intricate design on the gates are cast iron not carving.

As i have said before "Keep on Howarding"

15/05/2012

Hello Again
I finally found a way to transfer dads photos without a lead I had to use the xd card and my camera was used to download the images as such i can now post them here they are

Dad is a good photographer no?

Keep on howarding