Nic Wilson is one of Hertfordshire’s successful emerging writers. Her subject is at heart the natural world; and Hertfordshire, for ...
Hitchin life in the 18th century
A bicentenary of 'a place of learning'
A surprise blaze of blue on the hillside
This new Twitter page will appeal to Hitchin residents old and new, with photos being added all the time. Check ...
So often the past is portrayed with a ‘Downton Abbey’ style nostalgia, as a golden more simple time. And ...
Charles Collison died at St Bees, in Cumbria, in 1951, and left funds to the vicars of St Mary’s Hitchin ...
The Church almshouses or poor-houses were located at the south east corner of St Mary’s churchyard. There were six dwellings. ...
1625 was the year James I died and Charles I became King. In the same year Edward Radcliffe gave two ...
1773. The year of the famous Boston Tea Party was also the year in which Elizabeth Simpson founded some almshouses ...
Rev George Gainsford, helped by his wife, showed a great deal of energy and resourcefulness. His first curacy was in ...
‘Two dilapidated, tumble-down old hovels, unendowed, by Starling Bridge near the gas works’ is how this almshouse was described in ...
The histories of the two separate foundations by brothers John and Ralph Skynner are so interlinked that they have been ...
The Biggin may be the only haunted Hertfordshire almshouse. During archaeological excavations in 1968-9 a skeleton was found, nicknamed ‘Old ...
William Brown, of Lyle’s Row, Hitchin, died in early 1929 at the age of 88, leaving his widow Mary as ...
A century of change and continuity.