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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 date 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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    • Photos of Chestnuts Home, Hemel Hempstead

      Were you at Chestnuts Home in the early 1960s?  Can you help identify any of these people?  

    • Pat Carey: Just Like That! Coming to Hemel

      In 1956, Pat was living in a bedsit with her new husband when she heard about the new town and ...
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    • Maurice Jacob on Photos of Chestnuts Home, Hemel HempsteadI (Maurice Jacob) and my 3 sisters are in the photos so it would have been taken between August and...
    • Mark on Japanese visit DacorumThis is Mick Young, and the lady with him is his widow Yvonne, who still lives in Hemel.

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