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Rodney Tucker
... Rodney Tucker, Friend of the Water Gardens and professional ecologist, talks about the measures needed to improve wildlife habitats for riverflies and bats. ...
Torpedo in the lake
... Sally’s brother has a new boat. And it’s huge and grey and goes very fast. All the other boats are small and delicate. The end of the story is inevitable. ...
Danny and the lost bus
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Treasures from the depths of the silt
Frank drove the digger which removed the silt when the gardens were drained in 1972. He and his workmates found buried treasure under the silt. The return of the ring A woman has lost her ring while feeding the ducks. She knows where she lost it. Will the team be able to get it back for her? Frank tells the story of a careful search. Buried Treasure Frank and his team dig down to the concrete bed of the Water Gardens and find all the coins people...
Digging out the silt in 1972
... Frank Groome describes how his team dredged the water gardens in 1972, and compares the process with how it is managed today. ...
Ray Swan - the 1983 restoration
... Ray describes how the gardens were replanted in the 1980s and the excitement of the opening ceremony. ...
Further stories from the 80s
Ray tells some more tales about working in the gardens Seagulls Ray keeps the rock and roll dancers clean to great acclaim from the surrounding offices. Geese A group of white geese terrorise passers-by. Ray contacts the ‘Swan Lady’ to find a more suitable home for them, but they are not very amenable to rescue. Blue Cedars In the 1983 Restoration, Ray has planted some very precious blue cedar trees. When he arrives one morning, they are beautifu...
David Lloyd - My grandma's restaurant by the Gade
... David Lloyd recalls the area around the River Gade, before the Water Gardens were constructed, and the little restaurant in Coterells run by his Grandmother ...
Tring, High Canal Bridge
... Tring High Canal Bridge, taken 1935. Credit – Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies. ...
Cow Roast Lock
... Cow Roast Lock near Dudswell taken in 1935. ...
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A nurses view
My first visit to Hemel Hempstead was short and sweet, my twin sister and I were born in Marnham Ward, West Herts Hospital, and went home to Chesham shortly afterwards, and later spent the war and adolescent years in Northern Ireland. I returned to London in 1953 to commence nurse training, and met my future husband during the autumn of that year. He was doing his National Service with the RAF, and I learned he came from Hemel Hempstead. Lionel s...
Tring's Victoria Cross Winner
Private Edward Barber, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards Edward Barber was born in Tring in 1893 and was the son of a lamp lighter. He began his working life as a bricklayer’s labourer, enlisting in the army in October 1911. After three years of service Barber was due to be transferred to the reserve and was considering leaving to join the police but the outbreak of war put paid to any career change. Barber stood 6 feet 2 inches tall and was descri...
Watercolours
... Illustrations, like this beautiful watercolour, can help date a house, and show what it looked like at a particular moment in time. This is one of a collection made by John Morice in 1832, in a grangerised (extra illustrated) copy of Clutterbuck’s History of Hertfordshire ...
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Moving to Adeyfield
In 1960 I moved into a four-bedroomed New Town Commission house in Larchwood Road, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead. My family consisted of my husband, a Tax Officer in the Inland Revenue, my daughter aged 21 months and my son aged 2 months. Back of beyond My Mother was convinced that we were moving to the back of beyond because we were north of Watford. The rent was £2-10s. We had moved from a one bedroom flat in Mill Hill so the furniture was spread ...
Childhood memories
I was born on the 15th March 1938 in the Marnham Ward at Hemel Hempstead General Hospital (then known as West Herts Hospital), and christened at St Mary’s Parish Church, Wendy Jean Stacey. When I was a small child evacuees came to live with us at 11 Church Street in the old town, a Mrs Norman and her two children, Margaret who was 15 and Geoffrey who was 11. Margaret I loved, but Geoffrey I hated!! I cannot remember how long they stayed with us, ...
Berkhamsted Girls' Grammar School
My grandmother, Elsie Chandler, was a pupil at Berkhamsted Girls’ School from 1905-1909. She was 13 when she entered the Junior School, transferring to the Senior School in 1907, and leaving at the age of 16. Elsie was a weekly boarder, as she lived 15 miles away at Linslade, Bucks, where her father was a corn and coal merchant. She remembered being unhappy at school, where many of the girls came from a higher social background. Her Senior School...
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...
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