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... A film by Paul Welton looking at the history of Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire and possibly the start of a museum for the town. ...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
New Comer to Hemel Hempstead at the close of the 20th century It was the second time I had left Wales to set up home near London when, in 1999, I came to live in Hemel Hempstead. I settled in Alexandra road near the old High Street, which reminded me of the old market town I’d left. A favourite walk in my first weeks was along the Old High Street and around Gadebridge Park. What beautiful trees! It reminded me of the one in the town where I was b...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
Old Town High Street I moved to the old town area of Hemel Hempstead in late 1991 The old town has a High Street, roughly parallel with one side of Gadebridge Park with roads of mainly older properties leading off the High Street, on the opposite side of the road from the park. There is also a lovely church St.Marys, dating from Norman Times between the Park and High Street. The overall aspect of the High Street has not changed for a long time as...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
I am not a local person. I was born in Gravesend, Kent and at the age of five with my parents we moved to Amersham in Buckinghamshire. I lived there for thirty odd years and then moved to Normanton in Yorkshire because of my husband’s job. I moved back to the south in 1978 after my marriage broke up. I couldn’t afford and didn’t want to move back to Amersham hence I came to live in Hemel Hempstead as I had friends here and in Berkhamsted. I didn’...
Memories of Phyllis
... My husband & I moved to Hemel Hempstead in March 1952, I still live in the house we moved into then. Broadfield School was yet to be built. I worked as a nurse in St. Pauls Hospital, walking across the field there and back, or I went to Hemel passed the Midland Road Railway Station (not there anymore). I watched the Queen with Mrs Adams (Nora) when she laid the foundation store for St. Bamabas. ...
The Queen's Coronation
... The day the Queen was crowned in 1953, my husband rigged up a TV set in the shed with the door open, it was very hot, I was 9 months pregrant, I sat outside and watched the ceremary. ...
William Gower
... My Grandfather Willliam Gower and his brother Arther built most of old Boxmoor St. John’s Road, Cowper Road, Puller Road, Horsecroft Road, Kingsland Road and Sebright Road where they both lived. I wish they had received more recognition. ...
May's Memories
... I am 92 years old and was born in Fennycroft road Boxmoor, in a house my uncle built (Mr W. Gower). I went to Boxmoor School and St John’s Church Sunday School. Do you remember the ‘Star Cottages’ on Boxmoor? My Father was Bandmaster with Dickinson Brass Band. ...
Stella's Memories
... My first visit to Hemel Hempstead accurred when I was brought by my Grandmother by bus over the hills from Dunstable. I was 6 years of age, and can still remember that all the shops were brand new, and it had it’s own dedicated Market Place. More interesting to me then were the Water Gardens with the swans and ducks. We also visited a park with an arch in it in the Old Town, it was an interesting day out. ...
Muck, soot and pigs trotters
William Ellis, formerly a brewer from London, moved to the Little Gaddesden area in 1717, after marrying a rich widow. He was shocked by the conservative Chiltern farming methods, hardly changed since the Romans colonised the Gade valley. This discovery provoked Ellis to undertake some simple experiments in arable crop production. Ellis began farming at Church Farm and its glebe lands in Little Gaddesden, comprising 24 enclosed fields at that tim...
Joyce's Memories
... This is a interview with a blind lady, remembering when she first visited Hemel Hempstead, meeting and marrying her husband, plus life in Hemel Hempstead. ...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
Arriving in Piccotts End 1976 was the year I arrived in Piccotts End Hemel Hempstead. As we were only moving from St. Albans we rallied all the family and friends and moved ourselves. It was quite remarkably hot so we moved and installed the fridge first with a supply of cold drinks for the workers. The first night in the house is etched on my memory, we decided that as the previous owners had used a downstairs room at the rear of the house as th...
The Queen's visit to Hemel Hempstead in 1952
When it was announced that Hemel Hempstead was to become one of the new ‘satellite’ towns for London, there were many misgivings locally. The plan devised by Professor Abercrombie and enlarged upon by Geoffrey Jellicoe for the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation provided a series of housing areas distributed around the town, with each area having its own facilities for schools, shopping, leisure and churches. Initially the plan was to provide...
Frogmore Mills Memory Bank Project
If you’re from Hemel Hempstead or the surrounding towns, your personal stories could help Frogmore Mill unearth local history and exhibit the memories of our community. Many people were employed in Hemel Hempstead’s paper and printing industry and this project will capture what it was really like to live and work locally in days gone by. If you are an ex-John Dickinson’s employee, a papermaker, a printer or if you have local memories totally unre...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
Buying a House in Hemel When my husband was relocated to Watford I remained up north to sell our house. When a couple from Portsmouth offered me well over our asking price if I accepted their offer on the spot I agreed, and was rather pleased with myself until I discovered that a three bed roomed semi in Adeyfield would cost a lot more than the selling price of our detached house in Renfrewshire. Sandy’s first school days We moved to Hemel Hempst...
Memories of Hemel Hempstead
Leverstock Green We came to Leverstock Green in 1973 after living in Central and South Africa for 20 years. With hindsight, it was not a particularly good time to be resettling in the U.K. industrial disputes and very uncertain delivery dates for our furniture. We had to furnish the house from top to bottom and we had to wait for many weeks for some of the furniture, only the beds and carpets arrived on time. For most of the next year, my daughte...
Private Christopher Cox VC
On Christmas Day 1889, a boy was born in Kings Langley who was destined to become a National Hero, and part of the village’s heritage. Christopher Augustus Cox, the youngest of five children of William and Susannah Cox was barely six weeks old when his father died of influenza. Chris had a tough, God-fearing, upbringing exemplified by his winning the local school prize for Religious Knowledge three years in a row. These values were to remain with...
Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey
... Kevin Clarkson The warship is not HMS Iron Duke. It is one of the Invincible class of Battlecruiser. ...
Town's 'gateway' pub was victim of lakeside project
The Waggon and Horses used to stand proudly at the entrance to Marlowes, a short way from the earlier Plough roundabout. It was first built on the site in the mid 19th century and started life as a small beer house, run by John Hoar. The pub stood within a large area of land in the Marlowes known as ‘League Square’ – so called because the roads and alleys of that time made up a square, each side of which was equivalent to one league. Much of this...
War and boom prompted an exodus from city to town
The rapid growth of London was seen to be a problem as early as 1927. The Second World War started in 1939, and in 1940 Lord Reith was appointed the Minister of Works and Buildings, responsible for studying methods for post-war reconstruction. In 1944, Professor Patrick Abercrombie published the Greater London Plan, the principal aim of which was to move one million people into newly created satellite towns around London. The New Towns Act, passe...
Hermann Goering's car in Berkhamsted
The clip shows various shots of the Mercedes car that once belonged to Hermann Goering being driven along a country road. It goes into the drive of ‘New Lodge’ and parks beside a row of cars there (Bentley, Rolls and others). Owner Raymond Way comes out of the house and comes over to the car. The car has been exhibited up and down the country to raise money for the dependants of soldiers, sailors and airmen (the SSAFA – Soldiers’ Sailors’ and Air...
Gaddesden Row
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The Story of Coopers
... Alan Lowe The first photograph is labelled "William Cowper". I believe this should be "William Cooper". Further down the page there is a reference to "pipeonyl butoxide". This should be "piperonyl butoxide". Emma Pearce Hello Alan, Thank you for this information, we will correct the relevant information on the page....
Boxmoor Iron Works
Over the last 30 years the Dacorum Heritage Trust has produced many exhibitions connected with the area. Both “Agriculture in Dacorum” and “Archaeology in Dacorum” have explored the farming background in some detail, and some of this information is reflected here, giving a relevant context to the work of local agricultural engineers and farm implement manufacturers. The fascinating story of ironfounding in the area is also detailed, as well as th...
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