Street by Street

The thoroughfares, lanes and alleyways of Hertford

Arriving in Hertford
County Hall By Gavin Henderson The first time I visited Hertford was in August 2005 when I was interviewed for my job ...
Bayley Hall Sale Document 1898
Bayley Hall suffered when in the 1960s Gascoyne Way was built. The grounds have disappeared under the tarmac and the ...
Clibbon's Post
During the late eighteenth century, local traders at Hertford’s markets,had more reason than usual to fear the footpads, who regularly ...
County Hall
Modern architecture for the county
County Hall - A photo gallery
In the spring of 2010 I was volunteering at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. I took these pictures during the ...
Cowbridge in 1851
The 1901 census for Cowbridge exposed the fact that many of the residents were not born in Hertford – or ...
Daring escape from Hertford Gaol
This article appeared in ‘The Monthly Chronologer’ in July 1741 and describes in great detail, the last desperate actions of four condemned ...
Dimsdale Arms
The name refers to a local prominant family. These pictures show the details of some of the varied architecture to ...
Elephants in Fore Street
This is something we don’t really see any more. It must have been very exciting when the circus was in ...
End of an Era
Tuesday the 12th September 2017 at 4pm, Waitrose in Hertford’s Bircherley Green shopping centre closed its doors for the last time. Waitrose ...
Fire at 6 Maidenhead Street 1917
In his diary Captain Henry North Grant Bushby1 gives a first hand account of a fire in Number 6, Maidenhead ...
FIRE AT HERTFORD CLUB IN THE MID 1970S
Fire fighters were called to put out a blaze at the Hertford Club in Bull Plain after a fire in ...
Fire at the Hertford Club in the mid 1970s
15th century fireplace discovered
Fore Street as it was in the past and how it is today
'Then and now' photos of Hertford's main street
Great Sawmill Fire 1907
Ewen and Tomlinson's goes up in smoke
Hertford County Gaol Before 1702
On 25th March, 1702 an indenture was made between William Clake, the owner, and Sir Thomas Bygrave, Bart., Charles Caesar, ...
Hertford County Maps - Some beautiful illustrations
The illustrations show just one of the County Maps held at Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. The map itself is dated ...
Hertford in 1973 - The Bus Station, Fore Street & Railway Street
Then & Now I am a relative newcomer to Hertford …1971; not born & breed in these parts. I am an ...
Hertford Library in Dolphin Yard
The Official Opening
Hertford Through Time
By Peter Ruffles, Jean Purkis & Stephen Jeffery-Poulter
Hertford Town Centre, Now and Then
Hertford town centre has been through much change in the past, and even more so in the past 40 years. ...
Hertford: 40 years on
...then and now photographs of Hertford
Hertford. Prince Albert Cottages
These are not almshouses but model designs for dwellings for working people. As at least three people had mentioned them ...
Hertford's Ever Changing Past
I recently got the chance to look at some old OS Maps while doing work experience with Hertfordshire Archives and ...
Hertford's Riverside Yards
Inland Revenue map, c. 1911, showing the yards in Maidenhead Street, Hertford (credit: Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies) At the beginning ...
Mystery Photographs
Do you recognise any of the people or places in these photos? Do you know when they were taken or what’s happening? If you ...
North Crescent Motor Works 1923
More recently Waters Garage
Photos of Hertford - Gallery of pictures from the late 1980s
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 ...
Queen's Road - Early Photographs
These photographs are from the Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies collection.
Hertford in 1911 (16)
Hertford in 1914 (10)
Hertford Library at Old Cross (5)
People's Views on the Hertford Library at Old Cross (7)