The previous post in this series on our visits through Britain detailed our family history calls for the Fenn family in Billington and Leighton Buzzard. In our travel northward through Bedfordshire, we created a few other memories, however. Villages of Aldwincle & Wadenhoe The beautiful small towns between the day’s first and final ports of […]
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Day 4: Billington and Leighton Buzzard
Father John Fenn We visited Billington in search of the home of an ancestor, John Fenn, (called “Father” John Fenn, perhaps to distinguish him from a great-grandson, also named John). The story of Father John Fenn is amusing and worth your acquaintance: Quite late in life, he converted from Methodism to the Church of Jesus […]
Day 4: Leaving London
King’s Cross station and Platform 9 3/4 Our depature from London took us through King’s Cross station. Some one or other of us had heard that the city had installed a false “Platform 9 3/4” in tribute to the Harry Potter books, so we sought out the photo opportunity, but be warned, it was a […]
Day 3: The Orangery
At Kensington Palace stands a well-reputed tea house called the Orangery. My mother and I share afternoon tea once a week, so it seemed natural that we must visit such a place while we had the opportunity. The fare Although we six enjoyed taking tea together and though the atmosphere was good, the fare was […]