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Mary Smith, traveller
... Traveller Mary Smith lived in the Cupid Green area of Hemel Hempstead, and was often seen in Redbourn. Photo c.1970 This photograph is part of the Geoff Webb Collection. ...
Buncefield Fuel Depot Fire
I live in Felden 2 miles from the Buncefield Fuel Depot in Hemel Hempstead. We were woken up by a loud bang just after 6.00 am on a Sunday morning. I was working at a car dealership – Pilling Motor Group in Hemel Hempstead at the time and on my drive into work I decided to take some photographs. The smoke went about a mile up into the atmosphere and eventually ended up stretching as far as Kent, approximately 100 miles long. Fortunately for every...
Gwen Taylor
... Gwen Taylor (right), Church End, Redbourn, when working at Brocks’ Firework factory in Hemel Hempstead, shortly after leaving school. Photo c.1935 ...
Hemel Hempstead Hospital Blues
Standard blues tune. Featured in, “A Healthy Foundation.” An amateur cine film on super 8 with striped soundtrack. Well, sick man and woman, need a hospital bed, Well, sick man and woman, need a hospital bed. If Hemel Hempstead don’t get no new hospital? Sick man and woman will soon be dead. Why do you want to close our hospital down? Oh! Why? Why do you want to close our hospital down? Oh! Why? ...
Gwen Taylor
... When Gwen Taylor (right), from Church End, Redbourn, left school she went to work at Brocks’ Firework Factory at Hemel Hempstead, as did many other locals. Here she is seen preparing a ‘guy’ for one of the firm’s many firework displays c.1935. Other name unknown. ...
First World War
Five young people aged between 16 and 25 were recruited from ‘V Involved’ and have worked with curatorial staff to produce three short films about inspirational people from the past. The project began in June with an object-handling session introducing the young people to possible characters for films such as local war heroes, artists and authors. The young people involved in the project decided to focus on the First World War for this project as...
First World War
Five young people aged between 16 and 25 were recruited from ‘V Involved’ and have worked with curatorial staff to produce three short films about inspirational people from the past. The project began in June with an object-handling session introducing the young people to possible characters for films, such as local war heroes, artists and authors. The young people involved in the project decided to focus on the First World War for this project a...
Demolition of a Princess
... Jane dawe I remember my brother working as a projectionist at the Princess when Mr Miller was manager his name was John cheetham...
Buncefield Fuel Depot Fire
I live in Felden 2 miles from the Buncefield Fuel Depot in Hemel Hempstead. We were woken up by a loud bang just after 6.00 am on a Sunday morning. I was working at a car dealership – Pilling Motor Group in Hemel Hempstead at the time and on my drive into work I decided to take some photographs. The smoke went about a mile up into the atmosphere and eventually ended up stretching as far as Kent, approximately 100 miles long. Fortunately for every...
Bury Mill End School
Only those well over fifty will have any recollection of Bury Mill End School which stood proudly at the corner of Astley Road and Leighton Buzzard Road. It closed as a primary school in 1964 and was finally demolished in 1972. But of all the schools in which I taught, none were better. It was at the beginning of the new school year, September 1956, that I was introduced to this small school in its Victorian buildings. There were high ceilings, ...
Memoirs of Alan French
The following was first submitted on a forum for the Britmovie website. Subsequently, it was then forwarded for onward publication within my blogspot (Alan’s Blog) for the Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers website. Editor’s note: Hemel Movie Makers is being brought to an end in 2021. The Bargee I heard that there was a film being made with some big stars on the local Grand Union Canal. I remember after work, I went with a friend to where Rose’s Lime J...
Coronation Day
... This is a photo of the riotous street party held in Masons Road, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead. I know the Queen was not there, but my Dad was, he is the one standing with the cup to his lips. He was known as Jack (Lee), but who are the others? If you know please comment. ...
UFO Hemel Hempstead
The following are extracts from Alan’s Blog (that is me.) The blog appeared on the Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers website (Editor’s note: Hemel Movie Makers is being brought to an end in 2021). Please bear in mind that these were written for a film making club and may at times seem a bit esoteric. But I would also stress that I have had some strange experiences which have made me wonder about ghosts and life beyond this planet. But that does not me...
Gert's childhood Hemel
... Vivien Concannon Really interesting for me to read about old Hemel Hempstead Queen Street especially. My great grandmother, a former Music Hall artiste, spent her last years at No 49. where she died in 1912. ...
The Roberts family c1918
... William George Roberts with his wife Gertrude (Brinkrow) and son Percy, also daughters May (left) and Ellen Maude. Originally from Markyate, later at Gaddesden Lane, Redbourn. Photo c.1918 This photgraph is part of the Geoff Webb Collection. ...
The Austin Family
... Doug Austin and his wife Linda (Papworth) with their son Keith, Redbourn, c.1962. The family lived at Flamstead. This photograph is part of the Geoff Webb Collection. ...
Butchers - Berkhamsted
... This is a photograph of FARMER’s butchers shop in the main street, Berkhamsted. It shows the staff, which includes my grand father on the far right, standing in front of the shop with a complete display of wares. I think this was usually done at Christmas time. I believe it would be about 1930. ...
Nowhere else I would rather live
My epic migration to Hemel Hempstead began in the spring of 1958, when the company of Atlas Copco, the pneumatic tool and compressor manufacturer, I had been employed by for three years, announced their intention to leave Wembley, where I then lived, to relocate their business, both offices and factory, to the New Town of Hemel Hempstead. This being done under the New Town’s Development Scheme. Cautionary visit The company was seeking employees w...
Hemel Hempstead born and bred - and proud of it!
The houses now in Bury Hill were built at the beginning of the 1930s, and my parents, with my brother and sister, moved into number 42 just after Mr Green, a local builder, had completed them. I was born in 1932 and delivered by Annie Barlow, the District Midwife who lived at 50 Bury Hill. Puffing Annie As a small boy I can remember looking out of our back bedroom window to watch ‘Puffing Annie’ the local train starting off on its journey from He...
My Hertfordshire
My first encounter with Hertfordshire was in October 1956. I had just been demobbed after a three-year spell with the Royal Artillery, as I opted to sign on for an extra year when I went for my National Service Induction Interview. Being a ‘regular’ must pay better than four bob a day. It did, and I never regretted it – but that’s another story. I was visiting my future brother-in-law, who lived in Hemel Hempstead He, and his new wife, had a nice...
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