These two photographs show the fish and chip shop that used to occupy the site of 53 Railway Street, Hertford. ...
The Army Mutiny at Corkbush/Cockbush Field - 15th November 1647
“Why should we tolerate engines on the highway going at the railway speed?”
Bayley Hall suffered when in the 1960s Gascoyne Way was built. The grounds have disappeared under the tarmac and the ...
The children are Jennifer Jeffcoate, Johnathan Jeffcoate and “an angelic” Eric Riddle.
Christmas Day in the Workhouse is a very sad story. The poor, as recipients of charity, were dependent on the view ...
During the late eighteenth century, local traders at Hertford’s markets,had more reason than usual to fear the footpads, who regularly ...
Councillor and Mrs D. O. Hale pictured judging the contestants of the Fancy Dress party held at Hertford Town Football ...
Modern architecture for the county
In the spring of 2010 I was volunteering at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. I took these pictures during the ...
The 1901 census for Cowbridge exposed the fact that many of the residents were not born in Hertford – or ...
This article appeared in ‘The Monthly Chronologer’ in July 1741 and describes in great detail, the last desperate actions of four condemned ...
The name refers to a local prominant family. These pictures show the details of some of the varied architecture to ...
This is something we don’t really see any more. It must have been very exciting when the circus was in ...
Tuesday the 12th September 2017 at 4pm, Waitrose in Hertford’s Bircherley Green shopping centre closed its doors for the last time. Waitrose ...
In his diary Captain Henry North Grant Bushby1 gives a first hand account of a fire in Number 6, Maidenhead ...
Fire fighters were called to put out a blaze at the Hertford Club in Bull Plain after a fire in ...
'Then and now' photos of Hertford's main street
The Hertford Theatre Gallery is showing a wonderfully diverse range of work in its current exhibition by Elysian Arts. Each ...
Hartham Outdoor Swimming Pool 1950s/1960s This is a photo of me, my sister and a friend at the swimming pool in ...
The Hertford Baptist church congregation have in a short few months celebrated the arrival and induction of two new pastors. ...
From concept in 1849 to formation in 1851
The illustrations show just one of the County Maps held at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. The map itself is dated ...
Then & Now I am a relative newcomer to Hertford …1971; not born & breed in these parts. I am an ...
Reopens after redevelopment
Hertford town centre has been through much change in the past, and even more so in the past 40 years. ...
