473903 Elstow, Bedfordshire (John Bunyan\'s Birthplace) (b/c & w/c on card) by Foster, Myles Birket (1825-99); 20.2x14.2 cm; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; (add.info.: The writer John Bunyan was born in 1628 in a cottage in the village of Elstow, on the outskirts of modern Bedford. He was imprisoned in Bedford Jail for much of the period from 1660 to 1677. His crime was to have preached at open-air meetings, which challenged the authority of the Church of England. Whilst in Bedford Jail, he wrote \'The Pilgrim\'s Progress\' (published 1678). This symbolic story of a religious journey was very popular in the Victorian period. ); 穢 Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; English, out of copyright.