• Skip to content
  • Websites in the network
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  • Herts Memories
  • Herts Past Policing
  • Our Dacorum
  • Our Hatfield
  • Our Hertford and Ware
  • Our Oxhey
  • Our Stevenage
  • Our Welwyn Garden City
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind
 
  • Log in
  • Contact us
Our Hertford and Ware
Our Hertford and Ware
Part of Hertfordshire's Community Archive Network
  • Home
  • About
  • Towns & Villages
  • Topics
  • Get involved
  • Follow us on Twitter
You are here: Home>Towns & Villages>Hertford>People>A kid's life in Cecil Road Hertford in the 1950s

A kid's life in Cecil Road Hertford in the 1950s

Memories of Philip Wright and his mother, Stefanie, nee Schalk.

  • A kid's life in Cecil Road Hertford in the 1950s
    A kid's life in Cecil Road Hertford in the 1950s
    Prefabs, Cecil Road, Horns Mill, Hertford It is interesting that in later life when reflecting back on personal memories that it ...
  • A kids life in Cecil Road.
    A kids life in Cecil Road.
    All the kids, not just from Horns Mill, but more from Cecil Road will remember the great experiences we had ...
  • Adventures on the wasteland
    Adventures on the wasteland
    D’you know what, there are certain memories that a kid retains about the freedom and excitement out playing in all ...
  • American Car on Horns Mill
    American Car on Horns Mill
    The boy in the car is Alan Dunnage.  If anyone knows who the girls are please let us know.
  • Children in Cecil Road Pits, circ 1958
    Children in Cecil Road Pits, circ 1958
    The children are Jennifer Jeffcoate, Johnathan Jeffcoate and “an angelic” Eric Riddle.
  • Eric Riddle 1957
    Eric Riddle 1957
  • Jennifer Jeffcoate & Eric Riddle in late 1950s
    Jennifer Jeffcoate & Eric Riddle in late 1950s
    Jennifer Jeffcoate and Eric Riddle over the pits in the late 1950s.
  • Me, (Philip Wright) as a Scout as a boy from Cecil Road.
    Me, (Philip Wright) as a Scout as a boy from Cecil Road.
    Some of us Cecil Road kids were in the scouts and I was also in the St. John Ambulance Brigade ...
  • Prefabs on Horns Mill
    Prefabs on Horns Mill
    The first photograph was taken from Prefab 52, circa 1958. The fields in background provided the children’s route to Morgan’s ...
  • Stefanie Wright's Story
    Stefanie Wright's Story
    Mother’s Story An Interview by Philip Wright, with my mother Stefanie Wright, nee Schalk. From her childhood through to her arrival in ...
  • The journey of a childhood memory retraced by Eric Riddle
    The journey of a childhood memory retraced by Eric Riddle
    Since only in the last year or year and a half I have had the great pleasure to get back ...
People
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
  • All Saints Church Choir, Hertford
  • Ann Wickham's Day Book
  • Baron Michael Dobbs
  • Coleman connections
  • Cordingley Supreme
  • Golborne family
  • Goods to the value of £46.15s
  • Harriet Parker Wren and Josiah Wren
  • Hertford's Pearly King
  • Hertford's Victoria Cross winner
  • Kenneth Murchison and the 1903 Automobile Demonstration
  • Lilian Moody (1906-1988) Voluntary Work at War-Time Nurseries
  • Mary Stout, Campaigner!
  • Memories of 19th-century Hertford
  • Mum's Story - Growing up in pre-war Hertford
  • My Journey to Work
  • Nicholls Family
  • Reminiscences
  • ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
  • Sale of a Slave in Hertford, 1768 - A boy called Howard
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Hertford
  • Sir George Faudel-Phillips Bart. (1840 to 1922)
  • Stephen Austin's Diary
  • Sydney Harrington 1859-1946
  • The Blair Family of Hertford
  • The Confession of Thomas Colley at Hertford Gaol
  • The Diary of a Nineteenth Century Stonemason
  • The Hertford Horror
  • The Mysterious Case of the Lawyer and the Heiress
  • The Trials and Tribulations of Mr. Savage
  • Thomas Simmons
  • Treatment of Villains
  • Walter Taylor
  • Walter Turpin, Cowbridge Headmaster for 26 years
  • William Henry Brewster - Master fishmonger and Alderman & Mayor of Hertford
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • A kid's life in Cecil Road Hertford in the 1950s
  • Anthony Powell
  • George Paul: A Life in Hertford
  • Zillah Driver
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
Designed and built by Community Sites

Copyright Hertfordshire County Council. All rights reserved.

Heritage Lottery Fund (opens in new window) Hertfordshire County Council (opens in new window)