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    • Welcome!

    Welcome to Our Dacorum, where you can share and enjoy photos, memories and historical research about Berkhamsted, Bovingdon, Chipperfield, Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Markyate and Tring. If this is your first visit to the site, take time to browse and see what’s new.

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  • History of Hastoe Hall tells tale of 'mini welfare state'
    History of Hastoe Hall tells tale of 'mini welfare state'
    Towards the end of the 19th century, Lady Emma Rothschild created “a mini welfare state’ around Tring”.
  • H Lee and Sons
    H Lee and Sons
    H. Lee and Sons was a mineral water supplier, that also made dry ginger ale, cordials and ginger wine.
  • 'Little more than a tub of water on wheels'
    'Little more than a tub of water on wheels'
    Records of Hemel Hempstead's early fire brigades dating back to the 1600s
  • Dressing to impress is not a new concept!
    Dressing to impress is not a new concept!
    How clothes provide important clues as to what life was like in days gone by
  • Artist's legacy lives on in the White House
    Artist's legacy lives on in the White House
    Victorian painter's work hangs in US President's residence and Boston Museum
  • Do you take sugar?
    Do you take sugar?
    William Cowper and the abolition of the slave trade
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    • The Morton family in Hemel Hempstead
      Terence G Morton looks back on over a century of his family history in Hemel Hempstead My family first came to ...
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