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Picture source: Andy McDougall

The Nightingale was situated at 89 Nightingale Road. This pub was present by 1859 and closed in October 2015.  Originally named the Leicester Junction Inn to celebrate the Midland Railway's new (1857) main line from Leicester to Hitchin, it was renamed in the 1960s when the Hitchin-Bedford section was closed. The building has a fine terra cotta facade referring to Fordham's brewery of Ashwell (taken over by Green's of Luton in 1952, itself absorbed by Whitbread in 1962).

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Picture source: Andy McDougall