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This blue commemorative plaque records: Joshua Hawkins 1845-1892 Five times Mayor of Bedford, driving force behind the development of the Embankment and Bedford Park, lived here with his wife Hester Periam Hawkins 1846-1928 Amateur astronomer, author & Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
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