visiting Bedford and Stewartby

Today we left the hotel at 9 am to walk to the Barbican Tube station to ride to Farrington to catch a train to travel to Bedford - about 1 hour outside of London - to see the town that that our project received it's name because of.

We arrived in Bedford and walked around soaking in this old city (established in the 800s). We were most interested in looking at the entry to the city from the train station, the high street, and the river walk. We ate lunch at a very nice pub, then walked back to the train station to go to the town of Stewartby (estabished in 1928) home of the London Brick Company, which in it's heyday produced 8,000,000 bricks a week.

We walked into the town past wild flowers then got an unexpected access to the closed factory, stories from Phil who worked there, and a town/village tour from John. Then we took the train back to London after gleaning great information for our project.