The equipment that was installed in the Burtons' house was thanks to a partnership between Aragon Housing Association and Bedfordshire County Council.

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The archive service was established as the Bedfordshire Record Office by historian and retired zoology professor George Herbert Fowler, who had been elected as a county councillor in Bedfordshire in 1912.

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Objectors had said a similar plant was planned for Stewartby in Bedfordshire and there was no need for the county to have its own facility.

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