Stephen Foster with the first prize
Bedford Park 150th Anniversary Quiz
Monday 16 June 2025, 19:00 to Monday 30 June 2025
Free of charge
To mark 150 Years of Bedford Park, we are holding a written quiz about the people and places of Bedford Park. Stephen Foster of Foster Books has generously donated a framed original lithograph of Jonathan Carr's Tower House as the first prize (picture above). He also has several items of Bedford Park memorabilia for sale, including a coveted set of Bedford Park lithographs (and individual lithographs available for framing). Enquire within!
Copies of the quiz sheet will be made available free of charge, at Festival events in the Anniversary Week, or you can download and save it below, to return by email. Entries will close on Monday June 30th 2025.
Round 1: Growing up in Bedford Park
1. Who grew up in Bedford Park and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
2. Who grew up in Bedford Park and was made a Companion of Honour?
3. Who grew up in Bedford Park and won a Pulitzer Prize?
4. Who grew up in Bedford Park and was knighted in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours?
5. What was the name of Sybil Pearce’s charwoman at 17 Blenheim Road and who was the cook general?
6. How old was Terry Jardine of Lonsdale Road when he heard London’s first V2 rocket explode in Staveley Road?
7. Which role did Lucy Briers play in the BBC’s 1995 Pride & Prejudice alongside later Bedford Park resident Colin Firth?
8. The house where economist and journalist Stephanie Flanders grew up has a plaque commemorating her famous father. What is the address?
See the other rounds and entry form below. You can save a copy, write your answers on it and email it to newsletter@smaaa.org.uk - or print it off and hand it in at the Parish Office.
Documents to download
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List of the Bedford Park lithographs - zoom in to read
